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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 Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury
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 158,805 115,535 42,115 820
0 to 4 years 8,065 6,255 1,605 145
5 to 9 years 8,015 6,150 1,805 60
10 to 14 years 8,910 6,940 1,895 70
15 to 19 years 10,450 8,025 2,370 50
20 to 24 years 10,505 8,095 2,340 65
25 to 29 years 9,685 7,490 2,135 50
30 to 34 years 9,550 7,185 2,320 40
35 to 39 years 9,955 7,355 2,545 35
40 to 44 years 10,525 7,720 2,745 50
45 to 49 years 13,440 9,500 3,875 50
50 to 54 years 13,140 9,040 4,050 40
55 to 59 years 11,715 8,095 3,575 35
60 to 64 years 10,280 7,165 3,075 20
65 to 69 years 7,730 5,105 2,580 30
70 to 74 years 6,060 4,045 1,965 25
75 to 79 years 4,890 3,190 1,630 25
80 to 84 years 3,505 2,390 1,060 15
85 years and over 2,390 1,780 545 15
Median ageFootnote 2 42.0 40.2 46.8 26.7
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 133,815 96,185 36,810 550
Married or living with a common-law partner 78,840 55,210 23,195 295
Married (and not separated) 63,685 44,205 19,100 235
Living common law 15,155 11,005 4,090 55
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 54,975 40,975 13,620 255
Single (never legally married) 34,375 26,595 7,580 185
Separated 4,605 3,280 1,310 15
Divorced 7,425 5,290 2,105 25
Widowed 8,570 5,810 2,625 35
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 158,805 115,535 42,115 825
English only 95,025 95,020 0 0
French only 1,670 0 1,665 0
English and French 61,770 20,500 40,445 820
Neither English nor French 345 10 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 158,805 115,535 42,115 825
Single responses 155,520 113,140 41,820 225
English 102,415 102,405 20 0
French 42,810 1,165 41,645 0
Non-official languages 10,295 9,575 160 225
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 255 250 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 60 60 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 185 180 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 9,945 9,255 155 220
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 5 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 405 315 25 40
Armenian 10 10 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 20 10 0
Bengali 15 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 5 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 135 110 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 270 235 0 5
Creoles 10 5 5 0
Croatian 280 260 0 15
Czech 60 60 0 0
Danish 30 35 0 0
Dutch 170 165 0 5
Estonian 35 40 0 0
Finnish 1,440 1,415 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 770 755 10 0
Greek 140 130 0 5
Gujarati 95 75 0 5
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 80 80 0 0
Hungarian 105 105 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Italian 2,740 2,585 20 30
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 90 80 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 40 40 0 0
Lingala 5 5 5 0
Lithuanian 50 45 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 90 80 5 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 10 10 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 85 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 65 65 0 0
Polish 530 505 10 10
Portuguese 185 145 5 25
Romanian 45 35 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 15 0
Russian 80 70 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 90 85 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Sindhi 15 20 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 5 0
Slovak 60 55 0 0
Slovenian 55 60 0 5
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 290 250 15 20
Swahili 15 5 10 0
Swedish 25 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 110 110 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0
Ukrainian 580 570 5 5
Urdu 120 110 0 5
Vietnamese 100 90 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 95 75 5 0
Multiple responses 3,280 2,395 295 595
English and French 2,495 1,695 225 585
English and non-official language 630 635 0 0
French and non-official language 105 40 65 0
English, French and non-official language 45 30 5 15
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 158,805 115,535 42,115 825
Single responses 155,135 114,070 40,525 205
English 128,410 110,920 17,485 0
French 23,500 495 23,005 0
Non-official languages 3,230 2,660 40 205
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 70 65 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 30 25 0 5
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 40 40 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 3,130 2,580 35 195
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 245 175 5 40
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 45 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 155 125 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 85 60 0 15
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 285 265 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 85 80 0 5
Greek 60 45 5 5
Gujarati 55 45 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 895 750 5 25
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 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 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 65 50 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 5 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 40 0 0
Polish 155 140 0 10
Portuguese 70 35 5 20
Romanian 10 10 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 5 0
Russian 40 30 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 10 10 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 115 90 0 20
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 120 110 0 10
Urdu 70 65 0 5
Vietnamese 65 60 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 30 15 5 5
Multiple responses 3,675 1,460 1,585 620
English and French 2,380 260 1,530 590
English and non-official language 1,195 1,185 10 0
French and non-official language 45 5 35 0
English, French and non-official language 50 10 10 30
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 158,805 115,535 42,115 825
None 123,805 103,585 19,225 705
Single responses 34,730 11,800 22,800 85
English 14,485 1,610 12,785 60
French 16,355 6,515 9,830 15
Non-official languages 3,885 3,680 190 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 255 245 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 30 30 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 220 215 5 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 3,555 3,375 165 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 130 105 25 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 55 55 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 65 0 0
Creoles 20 5 15 0
Croatian 100 95 0 0
Czech 30 25 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 40 35 0 0
Estonian 15 10 0 0
Finnish 515 515 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 260 265 0 0
Greek 60 65 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 70 65 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,005 980 20 5
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 15 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 5 0 10 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 15 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 170 165 0 0
Portuguese 50 45 5 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 5 0
Russian 35 30 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 5 0
Sindhi 0 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 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 10 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 230 185 45 0
Swahili 15 5 5 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 25 0 0
Telugu 15 10 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 165 165 0 0
Urdu 40 45 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 80 55 25 0
Multiple responses 275 155 85 35
English and French 40 5 5 30
English and non-official language 75 15 65 0
French and non-official language 155 130 25 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 158,805 115,535 42,120 825
English 115,535 115,535 0 0
French 42,115 0 42,115 0
English and French 825 0 0 825
Neither English nor French 330 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 42,530 0 42,115 410
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 26.8 0.0 100.0 49.7

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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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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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