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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 Wellington
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 206,805 202,210 2,310 440
0 to 4 years 12,220 11,605 60 20
5 to 9 years 12,460 12,300 60 45
10 to 14 years 13,255 13,135 60 60
15 to 19 years 14,380 14,215 90 55
20 to 24 years 14,445 14,285 100 35
25 to 29 years 12,920 12,750 120 10
30 to 34 years 12,315 12,055 190 25
35 to 39 years 13,365 13,095 180 30
40 to 44 years 14,445 14,145 185 35
45 to 49 years 16,995 16,645 240 25
50 to 54 years 16,205 15,815 255 25
55 to 59 years 13,655 13,270 235 20
60 to 64 years 11,940 11,620 175 20
65 to 69 years 8,775 8,490 145 15
70 to 74 years 6,670 6,450 85 10
75 to 79 years 5,495 5,300 60 10
80 to 84 years 4,175 4,040 45 0
85 years and over 3,095 2,990 15 5
Median ageFootnote 2 39.3 39.2 47.1 26.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 168,865 165,175 2,130 310
Married or living with a common-law partner 103,675 101,280 1,435 180
Married (and not separated) 89,095 86,990 1,185 165
Living common law 14,580 14,295 255 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 65,185 63,890 690 135
Single (never legally married) 43,570 42,985 380 115
Separated 4,725 4,620 65 5
Divorced 8,695 8,485 145 10
Widowed 8,200 7,805 100 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 206,805 202,210 2,310 435
English only 189,825 189,825 0 0
French only 65 0 65 0
English and French 15,030 12,350 2,240 440
Neither English nor French 1,885 35 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 206,805 202,210 2,310 440
Single responses 204,480 200,000 2,255 380
English 170,465 170,460 5 0
French 2,420 215 2,205 0
Non-official languages 31,595 29,315 45 380
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 31,010 28,785 50 375
African languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 0
Afrikaans 35 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0
Albanian 70 70 0 0
Amharic 120 115 0 0
Arabic 540 500 0 15
Armenian 70 65 5 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Bengali 220 210 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 70 65 0 0
Bosnian 95 90 0 0
Bulgarian 40 40 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 800 670 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,385 1,225 0 20
Creoles 25 25 0 0
Croatian 280 270 0 0
Czech 175 170 0 0
Danish 170 165 0 0
Dutch 2,475 2,435 5 5
Estonian 50 50 0 0
Finnish 65 65 0 0
Flemish 40 30 0 5
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 5,620 5,225 5 35
Greek 275 260 0 0
Gujarati 495 445 0 5
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 40 35 0 0
Hindi 265 255 0 5
Hungarian 1,080 1,040 0 5
Ilocano 30 30 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Italian 2,870 2,750 5 15
Japanese 105 100 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 110 85 0 5
Korean 230 205 0 5
Kurdish 35 30 0 0
Lao 160 145 0 0
Latvian 50 50 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 40 40 0 5
Macedonian 50 50 0 0
Malay 60 60 5 0
Malayalam 85 85 0 0
Maltese 90 90 0 5
Mandarin 665 595 0 10
Marathi 40 40 0 0
Nepali 30 30 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,405 1,220 0 15
Pashto 150 140 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 845 760 0 10
Polish 1,645 1,570 0 25
Portuguese 625 590 0 10
Romanian 355 295 0 35
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 265 240 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 545 490 0 20
Serbo-Croatian 60 55 0 5
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0
Sindhi 30 30 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 95 95 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 110 100 0 0
Slovenian 80 80 0 5
Somali 45 35 0 0
Spanish 1,365 1,285 0 35
Swahili 50 35 10 10
Swedish 40 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,145 1,135 0 0
Taiwanese 35 25 0 0
Tamil 225 210 0 0
Telugu 25 25 0 0
Thai 40 40 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 25 0 0
Turkish 90 75 0 5
Ukrainian 315 310 0 0
Urdu 530 500 0 5
Vietnamese 1,480 1,225 0 15
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 575 525 0 5
Multiple responses 2,325 2,215 50 55
English and French 405 345 10 50
English and non-official language 1,810 1,810 5 0
French and non-official language 90 50 40 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 206,805 202,210 2,310 435
Single responses 202,775 198,350 2,220 360
English 186,405 184,790 1,620 0
French 625 55 575 0
Non-official languages 15,740 13,510 25 360
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 15,400 13,215 20 355
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 35 35 0 0
Amharic 75 70 0 0
Arabic 255 220 0 10
Armenian 30 20 5 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 130 125 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 60 60 0 0
Bulgarian 10 15 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 525 380 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 965 810 0 20
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 100 85 0 5
Czech 55 50 0 5
Danish 10 10 0 5
Dutch 430 390 0 5
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 10 5 0 5
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 2,960 2,570 5 30
Greek 75 65 0 5
Gujarati 325 280 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 20 0 0
Hindi 150 140 0 5
Hungarian 530 480 0 5
Ilocano 15 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 805 695 0 10
Japanese 55 50 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 70 50 0 5
Korean 155 130 0 5
Kurdish 15 10 0 0
Lao 95 75 0 5
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 5
Macedonian 15 15 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0
Malayalam 45 40 0 0
Maltese 20 15 0 0
Mandarin 510 440 0 15
Marathi 25 25 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,020 835 0 15
Pashto 110 100 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 555 465 0 10
Polish 775 700 5 20
Portuguese 155 130 0 5
Romanian 195 145 0 35
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 190 170 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 365 310 0 20
Serbo-Croatian 35 35 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 45 30 0 5
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 55 50 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 30 25 0 0
Slovenian 15 10 0 0
Somali 30 25 0 0
Spanish 660 580 0 40
Swahili 25 10 5 10
Swedish 10 10 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 450 435 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 170 160 0 5
Telugu 10 15 0 0
Thai 25 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 25 20 0 0
Turkish 75 55 0 0
Ukrainian 80 70 0 5
Urdu 340 310 0 5
Vietnamese 1,200 940 0 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 335 300 0 5
Multiple responses 4,030 3,860 90 75
English and French 165 40 70 55
English and non-official language 3,805 3,800 5 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 40 15 10 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 206,805 202,210 2,310 435
None 187,475 184,375 1,260 185
Single responses 18,950 17,515 1,030 220
English 7,160 6,530 335 205
French 2,300 1,630 660 5
Non-official languages 9,485 9,350 30 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 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 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 9,320 9,190 30 10
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 30 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 20 15 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0
Amharic 35 35 0 0
Arabic 210 205 0 0
Armenian 25 25 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 85 80 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 210 195 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 330 320 0 0
Creoles 15 15 0 0
Croatian 110 105 0 0
Czech 60 60 0 0
Danish 80 80 0 0
Dutch 700 700 0 0
Estonian 20 20 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,290 1,285 5 0
Greek 155 155 0 0
Gujarati 125 125 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 10 15 0 0
Hindi 205 200 0 0
Hungarian 255 255 0 0
Ilocano 20 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 1,065 1,055 10 0
Japanese 50 50 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 25 0 0
Korean 60 60 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 60 60 0 0
Latvian 20 25 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 35 35 0 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 0
Maltese 35 30 0 0
Mandarin 180 175 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 255 255 0 0
Pashto 40 35 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 220 215 0 0
Polish 475 470 0 0
Portuguese 290 285 0 0
Romanian 110 105 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 70 70 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 130 125 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 35 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 35 35 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 715 705 5 0
Swahili 25 20 5 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 430 430 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 65 65 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0
Ukrainian 75 75 0 0
Urdu 150 150 0 0
Vietnamese 290 270 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 160 155 0 0
Multiple responses 380 325 20 25
English and French 30 5 0 25
English and non-official language 125 115 10 0
French and non-official language 225 205 15 5
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 206,805 202,210 2,310 435
English 202,210 202,210 0 0
French 2,310 0 2,310 0
English and French 435 0 0 435
Neither English nor French 1,850 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,530 0 2,310 220
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.2 0.0 100.0 50.6

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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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Footnote 7

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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