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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375), First Official Language Spoken (4A), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Queens
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 1 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 76,705 74,475 1,530 125
0 to 4 years 4,205 4,085 50 10
5 to 9 years 3,975 3,880 65 5
10 to 14 years 4,470 4,345 65 20
15 to 19 years 5,280 5,165 75 20
20 to 24 years 5,415 5,315 80 10
25 to 29 years 4,405 4,295 95 10
30 to 34 years 4,400 4,285 95 5
35 to 39 years 4,735 4,580 90 10
40 to 44 years 5,330 5,080 135 10
45 to 49 years 6,205 5,925 150 5
50 to 54 years 6,060 5,865 130 10
55 to 59 years 5,730 5,540 170 5
60 to 64 years 5,425 5,290 125 5
65 to 69 years 3,710 3,620 75 5
70 to 74 years 2,745 2,685 55 0
75 to 79 years 2,100 2,050 35 0
80 to 84 years 1,360 1,330 25 5
85 years and over 1,150 1,130 20 0
Median ageFootnote 2 41.4 41.3 46.0 22.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 64,055 62,165 1,355 90
Married or living with a common-law partner 37,960 36,635 900 50
Married (and not separated) 32,890 31,745 725 50
Living common law 5,075 4,890 175 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 26,095 25,530 455 40
Single (never legally married) 17,610 17,240 290 35
Separated 1,685 1,640 40 0
Divorced 3,435 3,345 80 5
Widowed 3,360 3,305 45 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 76,710 74,475 1,530 130
English only 66,545 66,550 0 0
French only 60 0 60 0
English and French 9,495 7,900 1,470 125
Neither English nor French 605 30 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 76,705 74,475 1,535 125
Single responses 76,305 74,135 1,505 95
English 70,630 70,630 0 0
French 1,645 165 1,485 0
Non-official languages 4,025 3,345 15 95
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 45 45 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 45 50 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 3,920 3,240 20 90
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 45 40 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 245 220 5 10
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 25 25 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 20 15 0 5
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 75 55 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,055 710 0 5
Creoles 15 10 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 15 20 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 360 355 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 10 15 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 220 205 0 10
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0
Hungarian 45 40 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 40 0 5
Japanese 70 65 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 115 105 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 5
Mandarin 280 210 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 90 65 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 25 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 205 180 0 0
Polish 45 35 0 5
Portuguese 25 25 0 5
Romanian 15 10 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 100 90 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 30 20 0 0
Spanish 180 150 5 15
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 25 25 0 0
Thai 15 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0
Ukrainian 15 20 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0
Vietnamese 35 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 60 55 0 0
Multiple responses 400 340 25 30
English and French 195 160 20 25
English and non-official language 175 175 0 0
French and non-official language 20 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 76,710 74,480 1,530 125
Single responses 76,140 73,995 1,475 95
English 72,895 72,045 845 0
French 690 70 625 0
Non-official languages 2,555 1,885 10 95
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 5 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 2,535 1,865 10 95
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 50 40 0 5
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 110 85 5 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 20 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 0 0 5
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 970 615 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 75 70 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 70 55 0 10
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0
Hungarian 30 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 0 0 5
Japanese 25 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 100 85 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 5
Mandarin 245 175 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 90 65 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 10 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 170 145 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 5
Portuguese 10 5 0 5
Romanian 10 10 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 75 65 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 20 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 25 15 0 0
Spanish 100 75 5 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 15 10 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 5
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 15 15 0 0
Multiple responses 565 480 55 30
English and French 110 45 45 25
English and non-official language 430 425 0 0
French and non-official language 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 76,705 74,480 1,530 125
None 72,985 71,610 830 55
Single responses 3,635 2,810 700 50
English 1,235 820 310 40
French 1,350 970 375 5
Non-official languages 1,050 1,025 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 50 50 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 45 45 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 960 930 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 100 100 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 10 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 75 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 110 105 5 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 55 55 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 25 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 10 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 0
Japanese 45 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 30 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 105 95 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 25 0 0
Taiwanese 5 10 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 10 15 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 50 45 0 0
Multiple responses 85 60 0 20
English and French 25 5 5 20
English and non-official language 30 25 0 0
French and non-official language 30 30 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 76,705 74,480 1,530 125
English 74,480 74,480 0 0
French 1,530 0 1,530 0
English and French 125 0 0 125
Neither English nor French 570 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,595 0 1,530 65
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.1 0.0 100.0 52.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 2

The median age is an age 'x', such that exactly one half of the population is older than 'x' and the other half is younger than 'x'.

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Footnote 3

Marital status
Part A - Short definition
Refers to the marital status of the person, taking into account his/her common-law status.
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the marital status of the person, taking into account his/her common-law status. Persons who are married or living common law may be of opposite sex or of the same sex. The classification is as follows:
Married (and not separated): A person who is married and has not separated or obtained a divorce, and whose spouse is living.
Common-law: A person who is living with another person as a couple but who is not legally married to that person.
Separated: A person who is married but who no longer lives with his/her spouse (for any reason other than illness, work or school) and who has not obtained a divorce. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Divorced: A person who has obtained a legal divorce and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Widowed: A person who has lost his/her spouse through death and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Single (never legally married): A person who has never married or a person whose marriage has been annulled and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.

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Footnote 4

Total population excluding institutional residents. The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 5

Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Footnote 8

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 9

Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Footnote 12

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 13

Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 17

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 18

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011053.

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