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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 Lanark
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 64,765 62,495 2,170 65
0 to 4 years 3,095 3,040 35 15
5 to 9 years 3,290 3,230 50 5
10 to 14 years 3,730 3,640 85 0
15 to 19 years 4,315 4,235 75 5
20 to 24 years 3,460 3,420 35 0
25 to 29 years 3,055 2,980 70 5
30 to 34 years 2,905 2,795 105 0
35 to 39 years 3,595 3,455 135 5
40 to 44 years 4,170 3,980 190 5
45 to 49 years 5,560 5,290 260 5
50 to 54 years 5,630 5,400 225 5
55 to 59 years 5,390 5,170 210 5
60 to 64 years 5,180 4,935 240 0
65 to 69 years 3,795 3,595 195 0
70 to 74 years 2,800 2,670 120 0
75 to 79 years 2,055 1,985 65 5
80 to 84 years 1,550 1,490 55 5
85 years and over 1,210 1,180 30 0
Median ageFootnote 2 45.8 45.5 51.3 26.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 54,655 52,585 2,005 40
Married or living with a common-law partner 34,465 32,970 1,455 25
Married (and not separated) 28,880 27,665 1,180 20
Living common law 5,585 5,300 280 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 20,185 19,615 550 10
Single (never legally married) 11,800 11,560 235 10
Separated 1,720 1,650 65 0
Divorced 3,250 3,125 115 5
Widowed 3,415 3,280 125 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 64,765 62,500 2,170 60
English only 56,220 56,220 0 0
French only 30 0 25 0
English and French 8,475 6,270 2,140 65
Neither English nor French 45 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 64,765 62,495 2,170 60
Single responses 64,310 62,095 2,150 35
English 60,155 60,155 5 0
French 2,345 215 2,140 0
Non-official languages 1,800 1,735 10 35
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 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 6 1,760 1,690 10 30
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 55 55 0 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 5 0
Croatian 15 5 0 5
Czech 55 50 0 0
Danish 30 35 0 0
Dutch 210 205 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 445 440 5 0
Greek 70 70 0 0
Gujarati 25 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 55 55 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 100 95 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 15 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 30 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 110 105 0 5
Portuguese 40 40 0 0
Romanian 15 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 35 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 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 20 15 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 95 85 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 40 35 0 5
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 45 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 30 30 0 0
Multiple responses 450 400 20 30
English and French 300 260 10 25
English and non-official language 120 125 0 0
French and non-official language 20 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 64,760 62,500 2,170 60
Single responses 64,395 62,255 2,080 30
English 63,420 61,905 1,515 0
French 615 50 560 0
Non-official languages 365 295 0 25
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 10 350 285 0 30
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 10 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 10 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 40 35 5 5
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 5 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 10 0 5
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 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 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 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 5
Portuguese 5 5 0 5
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 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 25 20 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 15 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 10 0 0
Multiple responses 365 240 90 35
English and French 150 35 95 30
English and non-official language 200 205 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 64,765 62,500 2,170 60
None 61,950 60,725 1,160 40
Single responses 2,750 1,725 1,005 20
English 565 180 365 15
French 1,480 855 625 0
Non-official languages 705 690 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 20 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 655 635 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 25 30 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 50 50 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 170 165 5 0
Greek 35 35 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 5 10 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 40 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 40 40 0 0
Portuguese 10 15 0 0
Romanian 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 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 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 70 70 5 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 15 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 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 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 35 35 0 0
Multiple responses 55 45 5 5
English and French 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 5 5 0 0
French and non-official language 50 50 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 64,765 62,495 2,170 65
English 62,500 62,500 0 0
French 2,170 0 2,170 0
English and French 65 0 0 60
Neither English nor French 35 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,205 0 2,170 30
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 3.4 0.0 100.0 46.2

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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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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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