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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 Northumberland
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 80,340 79,200 1,010 45
0 to 4 years 3,345 3,315 15 0
5 to 9 years 3,835 3,810 20 0
10 to 14 years 4,350 4,325 20 5
15 to 19 years 5,250 5,225 20 5
20 to 24 years 4,170 4,150 10 0
25 to 29 years 3,395 3,370 25 5
30 to 34 years 3,370 3,325 40 5
35 to 39 years 3,920 3,855 60 0
40 to 44 years 4,705 4,635 65 5
45 to 49 years 6,740 6,615 115 0
50 to 54 years 6,995 6,895 90 0
55 to 59 years 6,600 6,480 105 5
60 to 64 years 6,865 6,725 130 5
65 to 69 years 5,400 5,295 105 5
70 to 74 years 4,265 4,175 80 5
75 to 79 years 3,305 3,240 55 5
80 to 84 years 2,220 2,180 35 0
85 years and over 1,595 1,580 10 0
Median ageFootnote 2 48.0 47.9 55.8 44.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 68,810 67,745 950 35
Married or living with a common-law partner 43,990 43,205 725 20
Married (and not separated) 37,100 36,435 605 20
Living common law 6,890 6,775 120 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 24,815 24,535 235 15
Single (never legally married) 14,345 14,240 85 10
Separated 2,145 2,120 25 0
Divorced 3,860 3,800 55 5
Widowed 4,460 4,375 65 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 80,340 79,195 1,005 45
English only 75,385 75,385 0 0
French only 25 0 20 0
English and French 4,825 3,800 985 45
Neither English nor French 105 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 80,340 79,195 1,005 45
Single responses 79,945 78,835 990 30
English 75,230 75,230 0 0
French 1,105 115 985 0
Non-official languages 3,610 3,485 0 30
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 10 10 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 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 3,545 3,420 5 30
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 25 25 0 0
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 85 70 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 45 45 0 0
Danish 60 60 0 0
Dutch 615 610 0 5
Estonian 30 30 0 0
Finnish 65 65 0 0
Flemish 25 25 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 715 710 0 5
Greek 105 100 0 5
Gujarati 30 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0
Hungarian 95 90 0 5
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 265 260 5 5
Japanese 20 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 110 110 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 25 25 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 30 30 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0
Mandarin 40 30 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 40 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 60 55 0 0
Polish 220 210 0 0
Portuguese 90 95 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 30 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 165 145 0 5
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 95 100 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 5
Ukrainian 110 110 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 55 55 0 0
Multiple responses 395 360 15 15
English and French 115 100 5 10
English and non-official language 240 240 0 0
French and non-official language 20 15 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 5 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 80,340 79,195 1,005 45
Single responses 79,895 78,800 980 30
English 78,895 78,155 735 0
French 270 30 235 0
Non-official languages 735 615 5 30
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 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 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 10 730 610 0 30
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 35 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 25 25 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 50 45 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 60 50 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 90 80 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 10 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 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) 30 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 30 0 0
Polish 45 40 0 0
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 15 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 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 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 50 25 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 5
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 5 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 445 400 30 15
English and French 60 20 25 10
English and non-official language 370 370 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 80,340 79,195 1,005 45
None 77,900 77,190 610 20
Single responses 2,355 1,940 390 15
English 435 290 120 15
French 670 405 260 0
Non-official languages 1,255 1,245 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 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 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,215 1,210 5 5
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 5 0 0 0
Arabic 25 25 0 0
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 20 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 155 155 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 215 215 0 0
Greek 40 40 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 30 35 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 80 80 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 15 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 55 55 0 0
Portuguese 35 35 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 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 15 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 145 140 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 50 50 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 0
Urdu 10 15 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 80 70 5 5
English and French 5 5 0 0
English and non-official language 10 5 0 0
French and non-official language 65 60 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 80,340 79,195 1,005 45
English 79,195 79,195 0 0
French 1,010 0 1,010 0
English and French 45 0 0 45
Neither English nor French 90 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,030 0 1,010 25
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.3 0.0 100.0 55.6

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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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