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Focus on Geography Series, 2011 Census

Census subdivision of Sherbrooke, V - Quebec

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Population, 2011 and 2006 censuses

Chart A description: Sherbrooke, V - Population, 2011 and 2006 censuses

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In 2011, Sherbrooke (Ville) had a population of 154,601, representing a percentage change of 4.9% from 2006. This compares to the national average growth of 5.9%.

Land area is 353.49 square kilometres with a population density of 437.4 persons per square kilometre. This compares to the provincial land area of 1,356,547.02 square kilometres with a population density of 5.8 persons per square kilometre.

In 2011, Sherbrooke (Ville) had 70,572 private dwellings occupied by usual residents. The change in private dwellings occupied by usual residents from 2006 was 6.9%. For Canada as a whole, the number of private dwellings occupied by usual residents increased 7.1%.

Sherbrooke (Ville) is part of the census metropolitan area of Sherbrooke (Quebec).

Population and dwelling counts

Sherbrooke (Ville) – Neighbouring census subdivisions

Table 1 Sherbrooke (Ville) – Neighbouring census subdivisions, population change, 2006 to 2011
Census subdivision (CSD) name	CSD type	Population
Census subdivision (CSD) name	CSD type	2011	2006	% change
Cookshire-Eaton, Que.	V	5,171	5,004	3.3
Ascot Corner, Que.	MÉ	2,891	2,595	11.4
Stoke, Que.	MÉ	2,765	2,708	2.1
Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton, Que.	PE	2,101	2,018	4.1
Saint-Denis-de-Brompton, Que.	PE	3,402	3,090	10.1
Val-Joli, Que.	MÉ	1,501	1,479	1.5
Waterville, Que.	V	2,028	1,926	5.3
Hatley, Que.	CT	2,003	1,786	12.2
Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley, Que.	MÉ	2,464	2,318	6.3
Magog, Que.	V	25,358	23,880	6.2
Orford, Que.	CT	3,575	2,979	20.0

Quebec – Census subdivisions with 5,000-plus population with the highest population growth

Table 2 Quebec – Census subdivisions with 5,000-plus population with the highest population growth, population change, 2006 to 2011
Census subdivision (CSD) name	CSD type	Population
Census subdivision (CSD) name	CSD type	2011	2006	% change
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval	MÉ	5,696	3,790	50.3
Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac	V	15,689	11,311	38.7
Marieville	V	10,094	7,527 A	34.1
Shannon	MÉ	5,086	3,825	33.0
Saint-Amable	MÉ	10,870	8,398	29.4

Quebec – Census subdivisions with 5,000-plus population with the lowest population growth

Table 3 Quebec – Census subdivisions with 5,000-plus population with the lowest population growth, population change, 2006 to 2011
Census subdivision (CSD) name	CSD type	Population
Census subdivision (CSD) name	CSD type	2011	2006	% change
La Tuque	V	11,227	11,821	-5.0
Shawinigan	V	50,060	51,904	-3.6
Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac	V	5,096	5,259 A	-3.1
Roberval	V	10,227	10,544	-3.0
Chandler	V	7,703	7,914	-2.7

Age and sex

Sherbrooke, V – Age distribution

Chart C: Sherbrooke, V - Population by broad age groups

Chart C description: Sherbrooke, V - Population by broad age groups

Table 4 Sherbrooke, V – Age distributions by broad age groups and sex, 2011 Census
Age groups	Both sexes	Males	Females
0 to 14	15.7%	16.8%	14.7%
15 to 64	68.0%	69.5%	66.7%
65 and over	16.3%	13.8%	18.7%

In 2011, the percentage of the population aged 65 and over in Sherbrooke, V was 16.3%, compared with a national percentage of 14.8%. The percentage of the working age population (15 to 64) was 68.0% and the percentage of children aged 0 to 14 was 15.7%. In comparison, the national percentages were 68.5% for the population aged 15 to 64 and 16.7% for the population aged 0 to 14.

Sherbrooke, V – Population by broad age groups and sex

Table 5 Sherbrooke, V – Population by broad age groups, sex and population change between 2006 and 2011, 2006 to 2011 censuses
Broad age groups by sex	Population
Broad age groups by sex	2011	2006	change	% change
Both sexes
Total	154,600	147,430	7,170	4.9
0 to 14	24,250	24,485	-235	-1.0
15 to 64	105,170	101,720	3,450	3.4
65 and over	25,185	21,225	3,960	18.7
Males
Total	74,770	70,670	4,100	5.8
0 to 14	12,530	12,600	-70	-0.6
15 to 64	51,950	49,765	2,185	4.4
65 and over	10,285	8,305	1,980	23.8
Females
Total	79,835	76,755	3,080	4.0
0 to 14	11,720	11,885	-165	-1.4
15 to 64	53,215	51,955	1,260	2.4
65 and over	14,900	12,920	1,980	15.3

Sherbrooke, V – Population by five-year age groups and sex

Chart D description: Sherbrooke, V - Population by five-year age groups and sex

Table 6 Sherbrooke, V – Population by five-year age groups and sex, 2011 Census
Age groups	Both sexes	Males	Females
Total - Age groups	154,600	74,770	79,835
0 to 4 years	8,370	4,245	4,125
5 to 9 years	7,660	3,945	3,710
10 to 14 years	8,225	4,340	3,880
15 to 19 years	9,820	4,915	4,905
20 to 24 years	12,470	6,285	6,185
25 to 29 years	11,115	5,725	5,390
30 to 34 years	10,325	5,200	5,125
35 to 39 years	8,980	4,435	4,540
40 to 44 years	9,220	4,640	4,580
45 to 49 years	11,025	5,435	5,595
50 to 54 years	11,555	5,530	6,025
55 to 59 years	10,880	5,160	5,715
60 to 64 years	9,790	4,635	5,150
65 to 69 years	7,790	3,660	4,125
70 to 74 years	5,440	2,435	3,010
75 to 79 years	4,570	1,865	2,705
80 to 84 years	3,600	1,275	2,325
85 years and over	3,785	1,050	2,740
Median age	40.2	38.0	42.3

Sherbrooke, V – Median age¹ of the population

Chart E: Canada, Quebec and Sherbrooke, V - Median age, 2006 and 2011 censuses

Chart E description: Canada, Quebec and Sherbrooke, V - Median age, 2006 and 2011 censuses

In 2011, the median age in Sherbrooke, V was 40.2 years. In comparison, the median age of Quebec was 41.9 years.

Table 7 Canada, Quebec and Sherbrooke, V – Median age, 2006 and 2011 censuses
	Median age
	2006	2011
Canada	39.5	40.6
Quebec	41.0	41.9
Sherbrooke, V	39.3	40.2

Families and households

In 2011, the number of census families² in Sherbrooke was 41,265, which represents a change of 3.9% from 2006. This compares to a growth rate for Canada of 5.5% over the same period.

In Sherbrooke, 46.3% of census families were married couples in 2011, while 36.6% were common-law-couples and 17.0% were lone-parent families.

Chart F: Sherbrooke - Census families by family structure

Chart F description: Sherbrooke - Census families by family structure

Sherbrooke – Family structure

Table 8 Canada, Quebec, CSD of Sherbrooke, V and neighbouring census subdivisions – Distribution of census families by family structure, 2011 Census
Geographic name	Total families	Married-couple families		Common-law-couple families		Lone-parent families		% change, census families, 2006 to 2011
Geographic name	Total families	number	%	number	%	number	%	% change, census families, 2006 to 2011
Canada †	9,389,695	6,293,950	67.0	1,567,905	16.7	1,527,840	16.3	5.5
Quebec †	2,203,625	1,143,370	51.9	694,750	31.5	365,515	16.6	3.9
Sherbrooke, V	41,265	19,105	46.3	15,120	36.6	7,035	17.0	3.9
Cookshire-Eaton, V	1,530	775	50.7	545	35.6	205	13.4	4.8
Ascot Corner, MÉ	865	395	45.7	370	42.8	95	11.0	10.9
Stoke, MÉ	845	415	49.1	330	39.1	95	11.2	2.4
Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton, PE	640	320	50.0	250	39.1	70	10.9	4.1
Saint-Denis-de-Brompton, PE	1,020	485	47.5	455	44.6	85	8.3	7.9
Val-Joli, MÉ	450	240	53.3	165	36.7	50	11.1	8.4
Waterville, V	585	300	51.3	195	33.3	90	15.4	5.4
Hatley, CT	605	360	59.5	205	33.9	45	7.4	7.1
Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley, MÉ	795	450	56.6	270	34.0	80	10.1	8.2
Magog, V	7,380	3,720	50.4	2,525	34.2	1,135	15.4	5.1
Orford, CT	1,135	575	50.7	495	43.6	70	6.2	26.1

Sherbrooke – Presence of children within couple families

Among couples (married and common-law) in the census subdivision of Sherbrooke, 42.4% were couples with children aged 24 and under at home. In comparison, as a whole, 46.9% of couples in Canada had children aged 24 and under at home.

Presence of children within couple families
* Children aged 24 and under at home
Married couples with children *	7,135
Married couples without children *	11,975
Common-law-couples with children *	7,380
Common-law-couples without children *	7,745

Sherbrooke – Marital status

Chart H description: Sherbrooke - Marital status

In Sherbrooke, 53.4% of the total population aged 15 and over were either married (30.2%) or living with a common-law partner (23.2%).

The remaining 46.6% were not married and not living with a common-law partner, including those who were single (never-married), separated, divorced or widowed.

Note: Percentages may not total 100 percent due to random rounding.

Table 9 Canada, Quebec, Sherbrooke, V – Population 15 years and older by marital status, 2011 Census
Marital status	Sherbrooke, V		Quebec		Canada
Marital status	number	%	number	%	number	%
Total - Population 15 years and over	130,355	100.0	6,644,380	100.0	27,869,345	100.0
Married or living with a common-law partner	69,620	53.4	3,745,315	56.4	16,084,490	57.7
Married (and not separated)	39,340	30.2	2,353,775	35.4	12,941,965	46.4
Living common-law	30,280	23.2	1,391,545	20.9	3,142,525	11.3
Not married and not living with a common-law partner	60,730	46.6	2,899,060	43.6	11,784,855	42.3
Single (never legally married)	40,600	31.1	1,942,090	29.2	7,816,045	28.0
Separated	1,760	1.4	105,190	1.6	698,245	2.5
Divorced	10,725	8.2	463,830	7.0	1,686,035	6.0
Widowed	7,645	5.9	387,950	5.8	1,584,525	5.7

Sherbrooke – Types of private households

There were 70,570 private households³ in Sherbrooke in 2011, a change of 6.9% from 2006. Of these, 20.4% of households were comprised of couples with children aged 24 and under at home, a change of -1.9% compared with five years earlier.

Table 10 Canada, Quebec, Sherbrooke, V – Distribution of households by household type, 2011 Census
Household type⁴	Sherbrooke, V		Quebec		Canada
Household type⁴	number	%	number	%	number	%
Total private households	70,570	100.0	3,395,345	100.0	13,320,615	100.0
Couple-family households with children aged 24 and under at home⁵	14,400	20.4	811,120	23.9	3,524,915	26.5
Couple-family households without children aged 24 and under at home⁶	19,470	27.6	988,410	29.1	3,935,540	29.5
Lone-parent family households⁷	6,870	9.7	346,305	10.2	1,375,450	10.3
One-person households	26,355	37.3	1,094,410	32.2	3,673,310	27.6
Multiple family households⁸	265	0.4	28,420	0.8	268,060	2.0
Other households⁹	3,220	4.6	126,680	3.7	543,340	4.1

Sherbrooke – Structural type of dwelling

In Sherbrooke, 38.8% of private households lived in single-detached houses and 3.0% lived in apartments in buildings that have five or more storeys. The rest lived in other types of dwelling structures.

Table 11 Canada, Quebec, Sherbrooke, V – Distribution of private households by structural type of dwelling, 2011 Census
Structural type of dwelling	Sherbrooke, V		Quebec		Canada
Structural type of dwelling	number	%	number	%	number	%
Total - Structural type of dwelling	70,575	100.0	3,395,345	100.0	13,320,615	100.0
Single-detached house	27,380	38.8	1,560,405	46.0	7,329,150	55.0
Semi-detached house	2,930	4.2	171,435	5.0	646,240	4.9
Row house	1,585	2.2	86,040	2.5	791,600	5.9
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys	2,115	3.0	171,110	5.0	1,234,770	9.3
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys	31,650	44.8	1,103,845	32.5	2,397,555	18.0
Apartment, duplex	4,280	6.1	263,860	7.8	704,485	5.3
Other single-attached house¹⁰	230	0.3	15,650	0.5	33,310	0.3
Movable dwelling¹¹	410	0.6	23,000	0.7	183,510	1.4

Language

Sherbrooke, V – Mother tongue

Chart J description: Sherbrooke, V - Mother tongue and language spoken most often at home

Note: Counts for mother tongue as well as those for language spoken most often at home include single responses only.

In Sherbrooke, 4.1% of the population reported English only as mother tongue, 89.1% reported French only, and 5.6% reported a non-official language only, in 2011. In comparison, the provincial / territorial percentages were 7.7% for English only, 78.1% for French only and 12.3% for only non-official languages.

In 2011, 3.8% of the population spoke only English most often at home, 90.9% spoke only French and 3.6% spoke only a non-official language. In comparison, the provincial / territorial percentages were 9.8% for only English, 80.0% for only French and 7.1% for only a non-official language.

Table 12 Sherbrooke, V – Mother tongue and language spoken most often at home, 2011 Census
Selected languages	Mother tongue		Language spoken most often at home
Selected languages	number	%	number	%
Total	152,445	100.0	152,450	100.0
English	6,235	4.1	5,845	3.8
French	135,785	89.1	138,530	90.9
Non-official language	8,575	5.6	5,480	3.6
Multiple responses	1,845	1.2	2,590	1.7

Table 13 Sherbrooke, V – Mother-tongue retention, 2011 Census
Mother tongue	Mother-tongue retention¹² (in percentage)
Mother tongue	Total retention; language spoken at home at least on a regular basis	Complete retention; language spoken most often at home	Partial retention; language spoken at home on a regular basis
Note: Counts for mother tongue and home language include single response of a language as well as multiple responses of a language with English and/or French.
English	86.3	71.8	14.5
French	99.7	99.1	0.5
Non-official language	86.4	69.5	16.9

Sherbrooke, V – Non-official languages

In Sherbrooke, the three most common mother tongues were Spanish (1.9%), Arabic (0.9%) and Persian (Farsi) (0.5%), in 2011. In comparison, the most common mother tongues at the provincial / territorial level were Arabic (2.1%), Spanish (1.8%) and Italian (1.6%).

Table 14 Sherbrooke, V – The most common non-official-language mother tongues, 2011 Census
Mother tongue	Number	Percentage of non-official language mother-tongue population	Percentage of total population
Note: Counts for mother tongue and home language include single response of a language as well as multiple responses of a language with English and/or French.
Spanish	2,860	30.8	1.9
Arabic	1,315	14.1	0.9
Persian (Farsi)	755	8.1	0.5
Serbian	445	4.8	0.3
Serbo-Croatian	400	4.3	0.3

Sherbrooke, V – Bilingualism

Table 15 Sherbrooke, V – Rate of English-French bilingualism by mother tongue and age groups, 2011 Census
Age groups	Mother tongue
Age groups	Total	English	French	Non-official language
Note: Counts for mother tongue include single responses only. Consequently, the total excludes multiple responses.
Total	41.5	74.0	40.2	38.4
0 to 19	23.3	67.7	21.4	26.8
20 to 44	55.9	83.4	55.5	47.0
45 to 64	41.5	78.7	40.1	34.0
65 and over	35.8	60.0	34.1	41.9

Table 16 Sherbrooke, V – Knowledge of official languages, 2011 Census
Knowledge of official languages	Number	Percentage
Total	152,450	100.0
English only	2,025	1.3
French only	85,820	56.3
English and French	63,810	41.9
Neither English nor French	790	0.5

Symbols:

···: not applicable
†: excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements. For further information, refer to Notes.
¶: incompletely enumerated Indian reserve or Indian settlement. For further information, refer to Notes.
A: adjusted figure due to boundary change. For further information, refer to Content considerations.
E: use with caution. For further information, refer to Cautionary note.

Footnotes

Footnote 1

Median age: Age 'x' that divides a population in two groups of the same population size, one group being older than age 'x' and the other group being younger than age 'x'.

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Footnote 2

Census family: Refers to a married couple (with or without children), a common-law couple (with or without children) or a lone parent family.

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Footnote 3

Household, private: Refers to a person or a group of persons (other than foreign residents) who occupy a private dwelling and do not have a usual place of residence elsewhere in Canada.

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Footnote 4

Household type: Refers to the basic division of private households into family and non-family households. Family household refers to a household that contains at least one census family, that is, a married couple with or without children, or a couple living in common-law with or without children or a lone parent living with one or more children.

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Footnote 5

Couple-family households with children: Refers to couple households with at least one child aged 24 and under.

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Footnote 6

Couple-family households without children: Refers to couple households without children aged 24 and under. Includes couple households with all children aged 25 and over.

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Footnote 7

Lone-parent-family households: Refers to all lone-parent family households regardless of age of children.

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Footnote 8

Multiple-family households: Refers to a household in which two or more census families (with or without additional persons) occupy the same private dwelling.

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Footnote 9

Other households: Refers to two or more people who share a private dwelling, but who do not constitute a census family.

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Footnote 10

Other single-attached house: A single dwelling that is attached to another building and that does not fall into any of the other categories, such as a single dwelling attached to a non-residential structure (e.g., a store or a church) or occasionally to another residential structure (e.g., an apartment building).

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Footnote 11

Movable dwelling includes mobile homes and other movable dwellings such as houseboats and railroad cars.

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Footnote 12

Mother-tongue retention: Retention refers to the situation where people speak their mother tongue at home. Retention is defined as 'complete' when the mother tongue is the language spoken most often and 'partial' when it is spoken on a regular basis but not most often. The (complete or partial) retention rate refers to the proportion of the population with a given mother tongue that speaks that language at home most often or on a regular basis. The retention rate provides an indication of a group's linguistic vitality, particularly the importance of transmitting languages between generations.

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Source:

Statistics Canada. 2012. Focus on Geography Series, 2011 Census. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-310-XWE2011004. Ottawa, Ontario. Analytical products, 2011 Census. Last updated October 24, 2012.

Related data:

2011 Census Topic-based tabulations – Census subdivision of Sherbrooke, Ville - Quebec
2011 Census Highlight tables – Census subdivision of Sherbrooke, Ville - Quebec
2011 Census Data Navigator – Census subdivision of Sherbrooke, Ville - Quebec
2011 NHS Focus on Geography Series – Census subdivision of Sherbrooke, Ville - Quebec

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