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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 Division No. 5Footnote 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 52,235 51,475 435 10
0 to 4 years 3,545 3,325 10 0
5 to 9 years 3,685 3,650 5 0
10 to 14 years 3,690 3,680 5 0
15 to 19 years 3,855 3,845 10 5
20 to 24 years 2,875 2,855 15 0
25 to 29 years 2,815 2,790 20 0
30 to 34 years 3,055 3,030 20 0
35 to 39 years 3,335 3,300 25 0
40 to 44 years 3,560 3,525 30 0
45 to 49 years 3,980 3,920 45 0
50 to 54 years 3,955 3,905 45 0
55 to 59 years 3,560 3,500 55 5
60 to 64 years 3,090 3,040 40 0
65 to 69 years 2,325 2,285 35 0
70 to 74 years 1,770 1,745 25 0
75 to 79 years 1,315 1,295 20 0
80 to 84 years 995 975 15 0
85 years and over 830 815 5 0
Median ageFootnote 3 38.9 38.9 53.2 56.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 41,315 40,825 415 10
Married or living with a common-law partner 26,450 26,110 285 5
Married (and not separated) 22,830 22,555 225 5
Living common law 3,620 3,560 60 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 14,860 14,715 130 5
Single (never legally married) 9,650 9,580 55 0
Separated 870 860 15 0
Divorced 2,135 2,110 30 0
Widowed 2,210 2,165 35 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 52,230 51,475 440 10
English only 50,630 50,635 0 0
French only 10 0 5 0
English and French 1,275 835 430 10
Neither English nor French 315 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 52,230 51,475 440 10
Single responses 51,870 51,115 435 10
English 44,335 44,335 5 0
French 550 120 430 0
Non-official languages 6,980 6,660 5 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 45 45 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 10 15 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 6,180 5,860 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 75 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 20 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 95 90 0 0
Dutch 300 290 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 4,280 4,025 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 55 55 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 40 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 10 0 0
Korean 85 75 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 25 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 55 55 0 0
Portuguese 30 30 0 5
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 50 45 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 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 20 0 5
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 145 130 5 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 420 415 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 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 110 105 0 0
Urdu 10 15 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 750 750 0 0
Multiple responses 365 360 5 0
English and French 55 55 0 5
English and non-official language 270 270 0 0
French and non-official language 25 20 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 10 5 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 52,230 51,475 440 10
Single responses 51,745 51,000 430 5
English 47,310 46,990 320 0
French 165 55 110 0
Non-official languages 4,275 3,960 5 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 5 5 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 5 10 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 4,025 3,710 0 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 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 15 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 40 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 30 30 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 3,335 3,080 0 5
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 60 50 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 15 10 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 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. 5 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 50 35 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 280 270 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 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 5 5 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 240 240 0 0
Multiple responses 485 475 5 0
English and French 20 10 5 5
English and non-official language 445 445 0 0
French and non-official language 15 15 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 52,230 51,475 440 10
None 48,520 47,970 270 10
Single responses 3,680 3,480 160 0
English 2,285 2,185 60 0
French 190 95 90 0
Non-official languages 1,205 1,195 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 5 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 880 875 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0
Dutch 55 55 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 310 310 0 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 10 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 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 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 110 105 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 85 85 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 15 15 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 315 315 0 0
Multiple responses 30 25 0 0
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 20 15 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 52,235 51,475 440 10
English 51,475 51,475 0 0
French 435 0 435 0
English and French 10 0 0 10
Neither English nor French 310 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 445 0 440 5
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 0.9 0.0 100.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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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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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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Footnote 14

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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