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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 Burlington, CY
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 174,245 169,355 3,010 675
0 to 4 years 9,450 9,115 85 25
5 to 9 years 10,130 9,970 100 50
10 to 14 years 10,350 10,175 95 80
15 to 19 years 11,190 11,005 110 65
20 to 24 years 9,920 9,760 115 40
25 to 29 years 9,400 9,235 120 40
30 to 34 years 10,640 10,395 170 55
35 to 39 years 12,070 11,760 230 40
40 to 44 years 13,140 12,815 230 70
45 to 49 years 14,420 14,020 285 50
50 to 54 years 13,440 13,035 300 30
55 to 59 years 11,090 10,730 265 25
60 to 64 years 10,550 10,170 235 25
65 to 69 years 8,435 8,065 225 25
70 to 74 years 6,705 6,375 185 20
75 to 79 years 5,625 5,365 130 15
80 to 84 years 4,330 4,140 85 10
85 years and over 3,360 3,225 55 10
Median ageFootnote 2 41.5 41.3 49.4 33.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 144,320 140,100 2,735 520
Married or living with a common-law partner 88,655 85,850 1,850 330
Married (and not separated) 78,550 76,040 1,575 320
Living common law 10,105 9,810 280 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 55,660 54,250 885 190
Single (never legally married) 34,885 34,265 425 150
Separated 4,275 4,165 85 10
Divorced 8,320 8,075 195 20
Widowed 8,180 7,740 175 15
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 174,245 169,350 3,010 680
English only 157,725 157,720 0 0
French only 115 0 115 0
English and French 15,170 11,600 2,895 675
Neither English nor French 1,240 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 174,250 169,355 3,015 675
Single responses 171,695 166,980 2,930 580
English 140,590 140,590 0 0
French 3,075 240 2,840 0
Non-official languages 28,025 26,150 90 580
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 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 27,795 25,940 85 575
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Afrikaans 75 75 0 0
Akan (Twi) 25 20 0 0
Albanian 90 85 0 0
Amharic 15 10 0 0
Arabic 1,350 1,210 10 75
Armenian 65 50 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 20 10 0
Bengali 140 130 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 10 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 45 40 0 0
Bosnian 90 85 0 0
Bulgarian 95 85 0 5
Burmese 15 10 0 0
Cantonese 390 345 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 990 865 5 10
Creoles 20 20 0 0
Croatian 840 815 0 5
Czech 265 260 0 0
Danish 140 140 0 0
Dutch 1,235 1,220 0 15
Estonian 90 90 0 0
Finnish 85 85 0 0
Flemish 35 35 0 5
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 1,895 1,865 5 20
Greek 395 375 0 5
Gujarati 335 300 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 20 0 0
Hindi 440 420 0 10
Hungarian 670 655 0 5
Ilocano 45 45 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0
Italian 1,865 1,810 15 20
Japanese 120 120 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 0
Korean 650 585 0 5
Kurdish 25 25 0 0
Lao 25 25 0 0
Latvian 110 100 0 10
Lingala 0 5 0 0
Lithuanian 130 125 0 0
Macedonian 140 130 0 5
Malay 35 35 0 0
Malayalam 95 85 0 0
Maltese 55 50 0 0
Mandarin 555 485 0 10
Marathi 30 30 0 0
Nepali 30 25 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,675 1,450 0 15
Pashto 90 90 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 565 510 5 10
Polish 2,280 2,200 0 30
Portuguese 1,340 1,245 0 15
Romanian 570 470 0 70
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 10 0
Russian 615 555 0 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 75 70 0 5
Serbian 750 685 0 20
Serbo-Croatian 105 100 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Sindhi 55 50 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 95 90 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Slovak 250 235 0 5
Slovenian 160 155 0 5
Somali 30 25 0 0
Spanish 2,035 1,805 0 100
Swahili 20 20 0 0
Swedish 55 55 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 880 880 0 0
Taiwanese 10 15 0 0
Tamil 165 150 5 0
Telugu 35 30 0 0
Thai 45 45 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 255 235 0 5
Ukrainian 660 650 0 0
Urdu 705 670 0 10
Vietnamese 285 260 0 10
Yiddish 15 15 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 220 205 5 5
Multiple responses 2,555 2,370 85 95
English and French 455 345 30 85
English and non-official language 1,950 1,945 5 0
French and non-official language 95 45 55 0
English, French and non-official language 55 40 5 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 174,245 169,355 3,010 680
Single responses 169,670 165,085 2,840 545
English 157,500 155,685 1,820 0
French 1,050 65 985 0
Non-official languages 11,120 9,330 40 540
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 11,045 9,270 45 540
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 25 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 10 0 0
Albanian 50 40 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 715 590 10 65
Armenian 30 20 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 95 90 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 55 50 0 0
Bulgarian 45 40 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 215 160 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 560 435 5 15
Creoles 5 0 0 5
Croatian 250 230 0 10
Czech 60 60 0 0
Danish 5 10 0 0
Dutch 60 50 0 10
Estonian 20 15 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 215 180 5 20
Greek 100 90 0 5
Gujarati 180 140 0 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 210 190 0 15
Hungarian 170 150 0 5
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 240 200 5 10
Japanese 45 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 5
Korean 460 390 0 10
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 5
Latvian 25 15 0 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 45 40 0 0
Macedonian 60 55 0 5
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 370 300 0 10
Marathi 15 15 0 0
Nepali 20 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,060 835 0 15
Pashto 60 55 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 345 290 5 10
Polish 840 765 0 30
Portuguese 380 295 0 15
Romanian 320 220 0 70
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 395 335 0 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 45 45 0 0
Serbian 355 290 5 20
Serbo-Croatian 35 35 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 20 0 0
Sindhi 15 10 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slovak 105 85 0 5
Slovenian 30 25 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 1,255 1,015 10 105
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 330 330 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 65 55 0 0
Telugu 25 20 0 0
Thai 25 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 135 120 0 5
Ukrainian 120 110 0 5
Urdu 370 340 0 10
Vietnamese 175 150 5 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 75 60 0 5
Multiple responses 4,580 4,270 170 135
English and French 295 75 140 85
English and non-official language 4,175 4,160 15 0
French and non-official language 20 10 15 0
English, French and non-official language 90 30 15 45
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 174,245 169,350 3,015 680
None 156,265 153,270 1,555 330
Single responses 17,665 15,850 1,420 305
English 5,860 4,950 570 275
French 2,055 1,265 780 5
Non-official languages 9,745 9,635 65 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 0 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 9,640 9,530 60 20
African languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Afrikaans 50 50 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0
Amharic 5 10 0 0
Arabic 425 415 10 0
Armenian 25 20 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 25 5 0
Bengali 35 35 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 35 40 0 0
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0
Burmese 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 135 135 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 225 225 0 0
Creoles 20 20 0 0
Croatian 385 380 5 0
Czech 90 95 0 0
Danish 50 50 0 0
Dutch 455 455 0 0
Estonian 25 25 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 705 705 0 0
Greek 220 225 0 0
Gujarati 100 100 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 35 0 0
Hindi 280 270 0 0
Hungarian 205 205 0 0
Ilocano 15 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 665 655 10 5
Japanese 55 60 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 115 115 0 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 45 45 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 35 35 0 0
Macedonian 40 40 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0
Maltese 30 25 0 0
Mandarin 155 155 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 450 450 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 160 160 0 0
Polish 765 765 0 0
Portuguese 585 580 5 0
Romanian 150 150 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 160 160 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Serbian 260 260 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Sindhi 20 20 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 50 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slovak 60 55 0 0
Slovenian 50 50 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0
Spanish 760 740 15 0
Swahili 15 15 0 0
Swedish 20 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 340 345 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 65 65 0 0
Telugu 10 15 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 80 75 0 0
Ukrainian 220 210 5 0
Urdu 230 230 0 0
Vietnamese 85 85 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 105 100 5 0
Multiple responses 325 230 45 45
English and French 50 5 10 40
English and non-official language 95 65 20 10
French and non-official language 175 155 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 174,250 169,350 3,010 675
English 169,350 169,355 0 0
French 3,010 0 3,015 0
English and French 675 0 0 680
Neither English nor French 1,205 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 3,350 0 3,010 340
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.9 0.0 100.0 50.4

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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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Footnote 6

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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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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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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