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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 Saint-Hyacinthe, V
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 51,845 520 50,930 260
0 to 4 years 2,490 20 2,415 10
5 to 9 years 2,220 10 2,190 20
10 to 14 years 2,480 20 2,445 15
15 to 19 years 3,270 25 3,215 25
20 to 24 years 3,465 20 3,410 30
25 to 29 years 3,085 50 3,015 25
30 to 34 years 3,120 45 3,020 40
35 to 39 years 2,645 40 2,565 35
40 to 44 years 3,035 50 2,955 25
45 to 49 years 3,995 50 3,915 20
50 to 54 years 4,330 35 4,270 15
55 to 59 years 4,160 40 4,110 0
60 to 64 years 3,775 40 3,730 5
65 to 69 years 3,160 35 3,120 0
70 to 74 years 2,270 20 2,240 5
75 to 79 years 1,875 15 1,850 0
80 to 84 years 1,395 5 1,390 0
85 years and over 1,085 10 1,070 0
Median ageFootnote 2 45.2 43.2 45.3 31.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 44,655 470 43,875 225
Married or living with a common-law partner 24,355 270 23,920 130
Married (and not separated) 14,185 175 13,875 110
Living common law 10,165 95 10,045 20
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 20,305 200 19,960 100
Single (never legally married) 13,180 135 12,960 75
Separated 630 5 610 5
Divorced 3,865 50 3,795 15
Widowed 2,635 15 2,590 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 51,845 520 50,930 265
English only 105 105 0 0
French only 37,480 0 37,475 0
English and French 14,120 410 13,445 265
Neither English nor French 140 0 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 51,840 520 50,925 265
Single responses 51,480 490 50,640 220
English 430 390 35 0
French 49,235 5 49,225 0
Non-official languages 1,820 95 1,375 215
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 0 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 5 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 1,800 95 1,350 220
African languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 220 0 180 15
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 10 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 20 0 20 5
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 0 10 5
Creoles 35 0 30 0
Croatian 0 0 5 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 5 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 5 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 25 0 15 0
Greek 20 0 10 10
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 5 25 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 5 5 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 10 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 5 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 5 5 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 45 0 20 20
Polish 5 0 5 0
Portuguese 60 0 45 10
Romanian 15 0 10 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 65 5 55 0
Russian 10 0 5 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 0 10 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 910 20 705 105
Swahili 60 5 40 10
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 5 5 5 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 5 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 45 0 40 0
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 20 10 5 5
Vietnamese 15 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 25 0 20 0
Multiple responses 360 25 290 45
English and French 210 15 160 30
English and non-official language 15 15 5 0
French and non-official language 120 0 120 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 5 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 51,840 520 50,925 265
Single responses 51,305 480 50,505 185
English 260 200 60 0
French 49,965 245 49,720 0
Non-official languages 1,080 35 725 190
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 1,070 35 720 185
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 110 5 60 15
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 0 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 0 10 5
Creoles 10 0 10 0
Croatian 0 0 5 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 5 5 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 5 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 5 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 0 5
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 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 0 5 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 5 10 15
Polish 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 15 0 5 5
Romanian 10 0 5 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 25 0 20 0
Russian 5 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 675 5 495 85
Swahili 30 0 25 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 5 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 0 25 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 10 5 5 5
Vietnamese 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 540 45 420 75
English and French 140 20 70 45
English and non-official language 20 15 0 0
French and non-official language 330 0 335 0
English, French and non-official language 45 5 15 30
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 51,845 520 50,930 265
None 49,215 260 48,705 135
Single responses 2,525 250 2,150 110
English 1,315 120 1,175 10
French 710 105 510 80
Non-official languages 500 20 465 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 490 20 450 15
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 80 0 80 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0
Creoles 15 0 15 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 10 0 10 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 0 10 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 5
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 10 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 0 0 5
Portuguese 30 5 30 0
Romanian 5 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 10 0
Russian 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 205 5 185 5
Swahili 10 0 10 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 5 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 5 20 0
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 100 10 70 15
English and French 15 0 0 15
English and non-official language 70 0 70 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 51,845 520 50,925 265
English 520 520 0 0
French 50,925 0 50,925 0
English and French 260 0 0 265
Neither English nor French 135 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 650 520 0 130
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.3 100.0 0.0 49.1

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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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Footnote 10

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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Footnote 11

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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Footnote 14

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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