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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. 8
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 186,660 183,740 2,035 230
0 to 4 years 13,125 12,900 40 15
5 to 9 years 11,800 11,700 50 15
10 to 14 years 12,000 11,905 50 30
15 to 19 years 12,980 12,885 60 30
20 to 24 years 13,225 13,110 80 15
25 to 29 years 14,475 14,295 140 15
30 to 34 years 13,525 13,305 160 20
35 to 39 years 12,505 12,285 160 20
40 to 44 years 12,190 11,980 150 15
45 to 49 years 14,050 13,805 185 15
50 to 54 years 14,610 14,335 230 10
55 to 59 years 12,110 11,870 200 10
60 to 64 years 9,420 9,230 155 5
65 to 69 years 6,565 6,390 145 5
70 to 74 years 5,125 5,000 90 5
75 to 79 years 3,900 3,805 75 0
80 to 84 years 2,800 2,740 30 0
85 years and over 2,255 2,200 35 0
Median ageFootnote 2 35.8 35.7 48.7 27.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 149,740 147,230 1,900 165
Married or living with a common-law partner 91,080 89,385 1,295 95
Married (and not separated) 75,440 74,015 1,055 90
Living common law 15,635 15,375 245 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 58,655 57,845 600 70
Single (never legally married) 38,530 38,115 305 55
Separated 4,070 4,005 50 5
Divorced 9,645 9,475 150 5
Widowed 6,415 6,250 90 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 186,660 183,735 2,040 230
English only 177,275 177,275 0 0
French only 65 0 60 0
English and French 8,635 6,435 1,975 225
Neither English nor French 685 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 186,660 183,735 2,035 225
Single responses 185,065 182,230 2,000 175
English 166,670 166,660 5 0
French 2,355 390 1,960 0
Non-official languages 16,045 15,175 30 175
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 1,135 1,135 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,105 1,100 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 15 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 15 10 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 14,625 13,765 35 170
African languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 0
Afrikaans 165 165 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 20 20 0 0
Arabic 275 245 0 10
Armenian 15 15 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Bengali 30 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 120 120 0 0
Bosnian 65 65 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 270 225 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 555 445 0 5
Creoles 20 10 5 5
Croatian 45 45 0 0
Czech 65 60 0 0
Danish 180 185 0 0
Dutch 1,715 1,700 0 10
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 65 60 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 2,475 2,385 5 35
Greek 90 90 0 0
Gujarati 50 40 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 150 150 0 0
Hungarian 145 145 0 0
Ilocano 150 145 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 125 120 0 0
Japanese 40 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 60 50 0 0
Korean 305 280 0 5
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 60 60 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 35 30 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 70 65 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 20 25 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 5
Norwegian 50 55 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 240 215 0 0
Pashto 65 65 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 195 165 0 0
Polish 250 250 0 0
Portuguese 65 65 0 0
Romanian 110 100 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 340 320 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 90 85 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 5 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 50 40 0 0
Spanish 1,700 1,445 10 70
Swahili 25 25 0 0
Swedish 55 55 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 2,540 2,515 0 5
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 30 25 0 0
Telugu 30 25 0 0
Thai 85 60 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0
Ukrainian 535 520 0 0
Urdu 150 140 0 0
Vietnamese 185 165 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 280 280 0 5
Multiple responses 1,595 1,505 35 55
English and French 290 240 15 40
English and non-official language 1,170 1,170 0 0
French and non-official language 95 70 25 0
English, French and non-official language 40 25 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 186,660 183,740 2,035 230
Single responses 184,125 181,340 1,960 165
English 176,480 175,020 1,460 0
French 565 85 485 0
Non-official languages 7,080 6,240 20 165
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 310 310 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 300 300 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 10 6,720 5,890 15 165
African languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Afrikaans 100 100 0 5
Akan (Twi) 5 10 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 120 100 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0
Bengali 20 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 35 30 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 165 115 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 375 265 0 5
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 5
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 300 280 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 0 0 0
German 875 795 0 30
Greek 35 35 0 0
Gujarati 30 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 60 60 0 5
Hungarian 35 30 0 0
Ilocano 35 30 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 25 0 0
Korean 255 225 0 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 40 30 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 55 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 155 135 0 0
Pashto 45 50 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 145 115 0 0
Polish 60 55 0 0
Portuguese 20 15 0 0
Romanian 65 50 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 160 145 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 45 40 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 30 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 35 25 0 0
Spanish 1,145 895 10 65
Swahili 15 10 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,515 1,495 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 35 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 100 85 0 5
Urdu 100 90 0 0
Vietnamese 120 100 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 50 45 0 5
Multiple responses 2,535 2,400 75 60
English and French 125 25 50 45
English and non-official language 2,340 2,335 5 0
French and non-official language 45 30 15 0
English, French and non-official language 30 10 5 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 186,660 183,735 2,035 225
None 175,955 174,035 1,210 120
Single responses 10,515 9,525 815 95
English 3,695 3,280 280 85
French 1,540 1,030 505 5
Non-official languages 5,280 5,215 30 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 760 755 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 725 725 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 20 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 5 5 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 4,375 4,310 30 5
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 60 60 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 10 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 115 105 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 20 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 65 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 135 130 0 0
Creoles 15 10 5 5
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 60 55 0 0
Dutch 575 575 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 560 550 10 0
Greek 40 40 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 85 80 0 0
Hungarian 35 35 0 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 55 50 0 0
Japanese 40 45 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 55 55 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 25 30 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 55 0 0
Pashto 10 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 40 0 0
Polish 60 65 0 0
Portuguese 30 30 0 0
Romanian 35 35 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 110 110 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 15 10 0 0
Spanish 595 580 10 5
Swahili 15 10 0 0
Swedish 30 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 745 745 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 30 30 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 115 110 0 0
Urdu 65 65 0 0
Vietnamese 55 55 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 145 145 0 0
Multiple responses 195 180 10 10
English and French 15 0 0 10
English and non-official language 45 45 0 0
French and non-official language 140 135 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 186,660 183,740 2,035 230
English 183,740 183,740 0 0
French 2,035 0 2,035 0
English and French 225 0 0 230
Neither English nor French 655 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,150 0 2,035 115
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.2 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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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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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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