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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 Grey
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 90,980 89,850 700 85
0 to 4 years 4,285 4,040 10 5
5 to 9 years 4,460 4,390 25 5
10 to 14 years 5,195 5,165 15 10
15 to 19 years 5,895 5,865 25 10
20 to 24 years 5,175 5,155 5 5
25 to 29 years 4,240 4,210 20 5
30 to 34 years 4,170 4,135 35 0
35 to 39 years 4,450 4,405 45 0
40 to 44 years 5,245 5,180 55 5
45 to 49 years 6,970 6,890 70 10
50 to 54 years 7,720 7,625 80 10
55 to 59 years 7,580 7,495 70 10
60 to 64 years 7,435 7,355 65 5
65 to 69 years 5,835 5,755 65 10
70 to 74 years 4,470 4,420 50 0
75 to 79 years 3,545 3,510 30 0
80 to 84 years 2,610 2,585 20 0
85 years and over 1,705 1,685 15 0
Median ageFootnote 2 46.9 46.9 53.0 47.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 77,040 76,260 655 65
Married or living with a common-law partner 49,020 48,465 490 35
Married (and not separated) 41,835 41,350 420 35
Living common law 7,190 7,115 65 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 28,020 27,795 165 30
Single (never legally married) 16,750 16,660 60 20
Separated 2,215 2,185 25 0
Divorced 4,235 4,190 35 0
Widowed 4,825 4,760 40 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 90,980 89,850 700 80
English only 85,910 85,910 0 0
French only 15 0 15 0
English and French 4,685 3,920 685 80
Neither English nor French 370 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 90,975 89,850 700 80
Single responses 90,560 89,455 690 65
English 83,805 83,810 0 0
French 795 115 680 0
Non-official languages 5,955 5,530 10 70
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 15 10 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 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 5,885 5,470 5 60
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 30 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 70 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 70 65 0 0
Czech 75 75 0 0
Danish 60 60 0 0
Dutch 870 835 0 10
Estonian 40 40 0 0
Finnish 65 65 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 2,840 2,555 5 20
Greek 55 55 0 0
Gujarati 35 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 115 115 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 215 205 0 5
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 75 70 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0
Macedonian 15 20 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 50 0 0
Pashto 10 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0
Polish 200 185 0 5
Portuguese 150 140 0 0
Romanian 25 20 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 50 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 30 30 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 125 120 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 25 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 50 50 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 10 0 0
Ukrainian 120 120 0 5
Urdu 25 25 0 0
Vietnamese 5 10 0 0
Yiddish 5 10 0 5
Other languagesFootnote 7 60 50 0 5
Multiple responses 415 395 10 15
English and French 120 105 5 10
English and non-official language 270 270 0 0
French and non-official language 25 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 90,980 89,850 700 80
Single responses 90,480 89,395 675 60
English 87,885 87,350 540 0
French 155 20 130 0
Non-official languages 2,440 2,025 0 60
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 2,430 2,025 5 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 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 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 35 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 200 165 0 10
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,550 1,280 0 15
Greek 15 10 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 30 25 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 30 0 0
Japanese 10 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 65 60 0 5
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 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 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) 45 40 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 45 35 0 5
Portuguese 45 35 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 40 35 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 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 15 15 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 500 450 25 20
English and French 50 15 25 15
English and non-official language 435 435 5 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 90,980 89,850 700 80
None 87,800 86,985 440 40
Single responses 3,090 2,785 255 40
English 855 745 65 30
French 660 475 185 0
Non-official languages 1,575 1,565 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 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 5 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,545 1,535 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 25 25 0 0
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 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 215 210 0 0
Estonian 20 20 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 540 535 5 0
Greek 25 20 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 5 10 0 0
Hungarian 30 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 70 70 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 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) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 5 0 0
Polish 45 45 0 0
Portuguese 55 50 0 0
Romanian 15 10 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 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 130 125 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 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 30 30 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 25 20 0 0
Multiple responses 85 80 0 5
English and French 5 5 0 5
English and non-official language 5 5 5 0
French and non-official language 75 75 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 90,975 89,850 700 85
English 89,850 89,850 0 0
French 695 0 700 0
English and French 85 0 0 85
Neither English nor French 345 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 740 0 700 45
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 0.8 0.0 100.0 52.9

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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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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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