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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 Oxford
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 104,760 103,395 915 100
0 to 4 years 6,135 5,970 20 5
5 to 9 years 6,345 6,310 10 10
10 to 14 years 6,805 6,775 15 10
15 to 19 years 7,235 7,195 25 20
20 to 24 years 6,180 6,145 20 5
25 to 29 years 5,975 5,930 30 5
30 to 34 years 6,035 5,990 35 5
35 to 39 years 6,400 6,320 65 5
40 to 44 years 6,810 6,720 75 0
45 to 49 years 8,450 8,350 80 10
50 to 54 years 8,135 8,030 80 0
55 to 59 years 7,115 6,975 115 5
60 to 64 years 6,385 6,255 105 5
65 to 69 years 4,930 4,845 65 5
70 to 74 years 4,095 4,015 65 0
75 to 79 years 3,315 3,230 55 0
80 to 84 years 2,450 2,390 30 0
85 years and over 1,970 1,935 20 0
Median ageFootnote 2 40.9 40.7 54.3 30.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 85,470 84,335 870 70
Married or living with a common-law partner 53,545 52,765 630 40
Married (and not separated) 45,735 45,065 520 35
Living common law 7,805 7,695 105 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 31,930 31,575 240 35
Single (never legally married) 19,410 19,280 85 25
Separated 2,715 2,685 25 5
Divorced 4,605 4,525 70 10
Widowed 5,200 5,080 60 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 104,760 103,395 915 100
English only 100,220 100,225 0 0
French only 35 0 35 0
English and French 4,130 3,150 880 95
Neither English nor French 375 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 104,760 103,400 915 100
Single responses 104,030 102,705 900 70
English 93,805 93,800 0 0
French 1,070 180 890 0
Non-official languages 9,150 8,720 10 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 9,045 8,620 5 75
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 70 60 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 25 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 50 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 90 75 0 0
Creoles 15 10 0 0
Croatian 60 60 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 30 35 0 0
Dutch 2,830 2,780 0 15
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 25 20 0 5
Flemish 240 230 0 5
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 2,090 1,935 0 5
Greek 105 105 0 5
Gujarati 55 50 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 0
Hungarian 535 515 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 340 330 0 0
Japanese 60 50 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0
Korean 90 80 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 25 25 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 45 40 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 20 15 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0
Mandarin 50 45 0 5
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 95 85 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0
Polish 685 650 0 5
Portuguese 420 400 0 5
Romanian 65 60 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 35 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 45 45 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 35 40 0 0
Slovenian 15 20 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 155 145 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 105 105 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 10 15 0 0
Ukrainian 95 95 0 0
Urdu 20 15 0 0
Vietnamese 140 125 0 5
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 105 100 0 0
Multiple responses 730 690 15 25
English and French 150 115 10 25
English and non-official language 540 535 0 0
French and non-official language 40 30 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 104,760 103,395 915 100
Single responses 103,735 102,445 875 65
English 100,620 99,965 660 0
French 265 55 215 0
Non-official languages 2,845 2,430 0 65
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 2,820 2,405 0 65
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 25 20 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 30 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 5
Dutch 490 445 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 5
Flemish 25 20 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 890 740 0 5
Greek 30 25 0 5
Gujarati 50 40 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 145 125 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 75 70 0 0
Japanese 40 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 60 55 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 35 0 5
Marathi 0 0 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) 60 55 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 275 250 0 10
Portuguese 125 100 0 0
Romanian 20 15 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 40 25 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 20 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 15 10 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 90 75 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 1,025 950 40 30
English and French 95 35 40 25
English and non-official language 905 905 5 0
French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 104,760 103,395 915 100
None 99,270 98,365 530 50
Single responses 5,390 4,945 375 45
English 1,325 1,130 135 45
French 750 510 240 0
Non-official languages 3,315 3,305 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 5 0 0
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 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 3,260 3,250 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 35 35 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 15 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 1,260 1,255 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 50 50 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 565 565 0 0
Greek 45 45 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 175 175 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 140 135 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 25 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 200 200 0 0
Portuguese 160 155 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 25 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 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 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 125 125 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 50 50 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 45 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 55 50 0 0
Multiple responses 95 85 5 0
English and French 0 0 0 5
English and non-official language 10 5 0 0
French and non-official language 85 80 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 104,760 103,400 915 100
English 103,395 103,395 0 0
French 915 0 915 0
English and French 95 0 0 100
Neither English nor French 355 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 960 0 915 50
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 0.9 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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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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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