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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 Niagara Falls, 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 82,010 79,270 1,675 245
0 to 4 years 3,970 3,865 25 5
5 to 9 years 4,240 4,175 35 20
10 to 14 years 4,710 4,635 40 35
15 to 19 years 5,395 5,295 60 30
20 to 24 years 5,120 5,035 50 25
25 to 29 years 4,700 4,600 70 15
30 to 34 years 4,565 4,470 75 5
35 to 39 years 5,035 4,905 95 15
40 to 44 years 5,715 5,555 100 30
45 to 49 years 6,605 6,410 150 15
50 to 54 years 6,540 6,320 170 10
55 to 59 years 5,950 5,720 165 10
60 to 64 years 5,440 5,210 145 15
65 to 69 years 4,100 3,875 155 10
70 to 74 years 3,255 3,050 115 15
75 to 79 years 2,785 2,595 95 10
80 to 84 years 2,180 2,015 70 0
85 years and over 1,690 1,535 55 5
Median ageFootnote 2 42.9 42.4 53.6 33.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 69,080 66,590 1,570 195
Married or living with a common-law partner 38,340 36,875 970 95
Married (and not separated) 32,630 31,370 790 85
Living common law 5,710 5,505 180 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 30,740 29,720 595 100
Single (never legally married) 18,200 17,855 230 70
Separated 2,755 2,670 65 10
Divorced 4,955 4,745 145 10
Widowed 4,830 4,450 155 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 82,005 79,270 1,675 245
English only 75,775 75,775 0 0
French only 65 0 65 0
English and French 5,325 3,470 1,610 245
Neither English nor French 840 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 82,005 79,270 1,675 245
Single responses 80,650 77,975 1,645 220
English 64,750 64,750 0 0
French 1,805 190 1,615 0
Non-official languages 14,095 13,035 25 220
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 15 10 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 15 10 0 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 13,960 12,920 25 210
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 25 20 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 385 350 5 10
Armenian 15 15 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5
Bengali 30 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 40 35 0 0
Bulgarian 190 180 0 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 280 195 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 570 475 0 5
Creoles 20 10 0 5
Croatian 180 170 0 0
Czech 50 50 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0
Dutch 260 255 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 10 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 730 715 0 10
Greek 175 170 0 5
Gujarati 235 205 0 5
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 10 0 0
Hindi 120 115 0 0
Hungarian 435 410 5 5
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Italian 4,065 3,835 0 30
Japanese 150 145 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 265 240 0 5
Kurdish 50 40 0 5
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 55 50 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 110 100 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 10 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 145 135 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 100 95 0 5
Polish 650 610 0 15
Portuguese 75 70 0 5
Romanian 110 90 0 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5
Russian 180 165 5 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Serbian 1,115 1,000 5 25
Serbo-Croatian 60 50 0 5
Shanghainese 10 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Sindhi 15 20 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5
Slovak 65 65 0 5
Slovenian 40 45 0 0
Somali 55 55 0 0
Spanish 805 720 5 30
Swahili 40 35 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 510 505 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 5 0 0
Tigrigna 5 10 0 0
Turkish 165 155 0 5
Ukrainian 285 270 0 0
Urdu 240 235 0 5
Vietnamese 370 305 0 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 115 105 0 0
Multiple responses 1,360 1,300 30 25
English and French 245 205 5 25
English and non-official language 1,040 1,040 0 0
French and non-official language 55 30 20 0
English, French and non-official language 20 20 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 82,010 79,270 1,675 245
Single responses 79,785 77,165 1,595 210
English 73,125 72,020 1,105 0
French 500 25 475 0
Non-official languages 6,160 5,115 10 210
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 5 0 0 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 6,130 5,110 10 205
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 245 210 0 15
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5
Bengali 15 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 20 15 0 5
Bulgarian 120 105 5 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 195 120 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 440 340 0 5
Creoles 10 5 0 5
Croatian 45 35 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 5 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 70 55 0 10
Greek 50 50 0 5
Gujarati 135 110 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 55 45 0 0
Hungarian 120 100 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5
Italian 1,270 1,045 0 25
Japanese 85 80 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 205 185 0 5
Kurdish 30 25 0 5
Lao 10 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 30 25 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 75 65 0 0
Marathi 5 5 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) 75 60 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 55 50 0 5
Polish 255 220 0 10
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 55 35 0 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 95 80 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Serbian 725 615 0 30
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0
Shanghainese 10 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 5
Slovenian 10 5 0 0
Somali 55 55 0 0
Spanish 460 380 0 25
Swahili 25 15 0 5
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 185 180 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 15 10 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 135 125 0 5
Ukrainian 85 70 0 0
Urdu 120 115 0 0
Vietnamese 260 200 0 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 20 10 0 5
Multiple responses 2,220 2,105 80 35
English and French 130 40 65 30
English and non-official language 2,065 2,060 5 0
French and non-official language 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 5 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 82,010 79,270 1,675 245
None 73,225 71,405 960 115
Single responses 8,620 7,730 705 115
English 2,830 2,430 245 100
French 990 545 435 10
Non-official languages 4,795 4,755 20 5
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 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 4,740 4,695 25 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 120 115 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 50 50 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 60 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 115 0 0
Creoles 20 15 5 0
Croatian 85 85 0 0
Czech 25 20 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 70 70 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 235 235 0 5
Greek 120 120 0 0
Gujarati 60 55 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0
Hindi 105 105 0 0
Hungarian 145 140 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 1,570 1,565 5 0
Japanese 70 70 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 5 0
Korean 55 55 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 30 30 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 50 55 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 170 175 0 0
Portuguese 30 30 0 0
Romanian 50 50 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 70 70 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 275 280 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Sindhi 10 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 305 305 0 5
Swahili 15 15 0 0
Swedish 10 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 200 195 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 30 0 0
Ukrainian 85 90 0 0
Urdu 95 95 0 0
Vietnamese 90 85 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 55 55 0 0
Multiple responses 160 135 10 15
English and French 15 0 0 10
English and non-official language 50 45 5 0
French and non-official language 95 90 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 82,005 79,270 1,675 245
English 79,270 79,270 0 0
French 1,675 0 1,675 0
English and French 245 0 0 245
Neither English nor French 815 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,795 0 1,675 120
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.2 0.0 100.0 49.0

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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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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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