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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 Bruce
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 65,240 64,375 560 30
0 to 4 years 3,465 3,275 0 0
5 to 9 years 3,135 3,090 10 5
10 to 14 years 3,365 3,355 5 5
15 to 19 years 4,200 4,185 10 5
20 to 24 years 3,760 3,745 10 0
25 to 29 years 3,575 3,540 20 0
30 to 34 years 3,255 3,230 25 0
35 to 39 years 3,120 3,085 25 0
40 to 44 years 3,385 3,345 40 0
45 to 49 years 4,820 4,780 45 0
50 to 54 years 5,555 5,480 65 5
55 to 59 years 5,645 5,560 85 0
60 to 64 years 5,445 5,365 70 0
65 to 69 years 4,255 4,185 65 0
70 to 74 years 3,235 3,195 35 5
75 to 79 years 2,370 2,350 20 0
80 to 84 years 1,610 1,590 15 0
85 years and over 1,045 1,035 10 5
Median ageFootnote 2 46.6 46.6 56.2 33.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 55,270 54,655 540 20
Married or living with a common-law partner 35,935 35,475 415 15
Married (and not separated) 31,165 30,765 355 10
Living common law 4,775 4,710 55 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 19,335 19,180 130 10
Single (never legally married) 11,885 11,825 45 10
Separated 1,525 1,505 15 0
Divorced 2,625 2,595 25 5
Widowed 3,300 3,250 40 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 65,235 64,370 565 30
English only 61,880 61,880 0 0
French only 10 0 5 0
English and French 3,065 2,480 555 25
Neither English nor French 285 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 65,240 64,375 565 25
Single responses 64,905 64,050 560 20
English 60,015 60,015 5 0
French 630 80 555 0
Non-official languages 4,255 3,960 5 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 145 145 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 145 145 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 4,075 3,775 5 20
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 25 20 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 25 25 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 30 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 55 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 35 35 0 0
Czech 35 35 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0
Dutch 580 570 0 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0
Flemish 15 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,955 1,745 0 5
Greek 30 30 5 0
Gujarati 70 70 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 40 45 0 0
Hungarian 70 65 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 105 100 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 60 55 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 30 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 110 115 0 0
Portuguese 60 60 0 0
Romanian 50 45 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 45 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 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 5 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 90 80 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 70 70 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 0 0
Urdu 110 100 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 40 40 0 0
Multiple responses 335 325 5 10
English and French 85 75 0 5
English and non-official language 220 220 0 0
French and non-official language 20 20 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 65,240 64,370 565 30
Single responses 64,820 63,985 545 20
English 62,850 62,420 430 0
French 120 15 110 0
Non-official languages 1,855 1,555 0 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 10 10 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 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 1,835 1,535 0 20
African languages, n.i.e. 5 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 5 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 15 15 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 15 15 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 150 140 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,110 900 5 5
Greek 5 10 0 0
Gujarati 40 40 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 15 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 15 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 5 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) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 25 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 30 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. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 25 15 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 15 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 85 75 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 5 0 0
Multiple responses 415 390 20 10
English and French 35 10 15 10
English and non-official language 380 380 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 65,240 64,370 560 30
None 62,805 62,195 335 15
Single responses 2,360 2,110 230 20
English 730 620 80 20
French 445 295 145 0
Non-official languages 1,185 1,185 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 130 130 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 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 125 120 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,035 1,030 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 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. 10 5 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 170 175 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 335 330 0 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 30 30 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 10 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 30 30 0 0
Romanian 20 20 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 5 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 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 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 70 65 5 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 40 40 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 75 75 5 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 5 10 5 0
French and non-official language 65 60 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 65,240 64,370 560 25
English 64,370 64,375 0 0
French 560 0 565 0
English and French 30 0 0 30
Neither English nor French 275 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 580 0 560 15
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 0.9 0.0 100.0 60.0

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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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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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