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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 Stratford, CYFootnote 1
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 2 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 30,520 30,225 205 30
0 to 4 years 1,490 1,480 5 0
5 to 9 years 1,600 1,590 5 5
10 to 14 years 1,720 1,710 10 0
15 to 19 years 1,960 1,945 5 5
20 to 24 years 1,770 1,770 5 5
25 to 29 years 1,725 1,715 5 0
30 to 34 years 1,750 1,725 15 0
35 to 39 years 1,850 1,830 10 0
40 to 44 years 1,960 1,940 15 0
45 to 49 years 2,410 2,375 25 5
50 to 54 years 2,485 2,460 25 0
55 to 59 years 2,395 2,375 20 0
60 to 64 years 2,020 1,995 20 0
65 to 69 years 1,480 1,470 15 0
70 to 74 years 1,205 1,190 10 0
75 to 79 years 990 970 15 0
80 to 84 years 855 850 0 0
85 years and over 845 835 5 0
Median ageFootnote 3 43.6 43.5 50.4 18.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 25,705 25,445 190 15
Married or living with a common-law partner 14,685 14,530 115 5
Married (and not separated) 12,240 12,105 90 5
Living common law 2,450 2,415 25 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 11,020 10,915 70 10
Single (never legally married) 6,370 6,325 25 15
Separated 975 975 0 0
Divorced 1,795 1,775 20 0
Widowed 1,875 1,840 20 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 30,515 30,220 205 30
English only 28,700 28,700 0 0
French only 5 0 5 0
English and French 1,740 1,515 200 25
Neither English nor French 70 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 30,515 30,220 205 25
Single responses 30,345 30,055 205 20
English 28,080 28,080 0 0
French 230 30 200 0
Non-official languages 2,035 1,945 5 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 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 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 2,010 1,920 5 20
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 30 30 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 65 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 235 230 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 405 400 0 0
Greek 45 45 0 0
Gujarati 40 35 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 65 65 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 145 140 0 0
Japanese 25 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 45 45 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 85 65 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 15 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 30 25 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 65 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 20 0 0
Polish 95 100 0 5
Portuguese 55 55 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 25 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 140 135 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 40 45 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 20 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 20 25 0 0
Multiple responses 170 165 0 5
English and French 35 35 0 5
English and non-official language 120 120 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 30,515 30,220 205 30
Single responses 30,265 29,980 195 25
English 29,570 29,415 155 0
French 45 10 35 0
Non-official languages 645 555 0 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 645 555 0 20
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 5 5 0 0
Arabic 5 5 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 15 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 35 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 10 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 40 35 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 10 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 30 30 0 0
Japanese 20 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 30 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 85 65 0 5
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 10 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 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) 40 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 15 0 0
Polish 30 25 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 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 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 60 50 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 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 0 5 0 0
Multiple responses 255 245 5 5
English and French 10 0 5 5
English and non-official language 235 235 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 30,520 30,225 205 25
None 29,220 29,045 110 5
Single responses 1,275 1,155 95 15
English 325 290 25 15
French 220 150 70 0
Non-official languages 725 715 5 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 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 15 705 695 5 0
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 20 15 0 0
Armenian 0 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 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 70 70 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 145 145 0 0
Greek 30 30 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 15 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 45 50 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 15 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 20 20 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 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 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 85 85 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 15 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 20 15 0 0
Multiple responses 20 20 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 30,520 30,220 205 25
English 30,220 30,220 0 0
French 205 0 205 0
English and French 25 0 0 25
Neither English nor French 65 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 215 0 205 15
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 0.7 0.0 100.0 60.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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Footnote 2

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 13

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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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 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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Footnote 19

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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