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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. 12Footnote 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 62,825 58,650 4,000 100
0 to 4 years 4,930 4,795 100 15
5 to 9 years 4,425 4,295 125 15
10 to 14 years 4,490 4,335 135 15
15 to 19 years 4,750 4,580 165 5
20 to 24 years 4,190 4,005 185 0
25 to 29 years 4,760 4,505 250 5
30 to 34 years 4,415 4,165 240 5
35 to 39 years 4,045 3,825 210 0
40 to 44 years 4,070 3,825 225 10
45 to 49 years 4,945 4,585 355 0
50 to 54 years 4,620 4,215 395 5
55 to 59 years 3,655 3,280 365 5
60 to 64 years 2,840 2,500 330 5
65 to 69 years 2,275 1,990 280 5
70 to 74 years 1,755 1,535 215 5
75 to 79 years 1,300 1,085 205 0
80 to 84 years 780 645 130 5
85 years and over 565 480 80 5
Median ageFootnote 3 34.3 33.3 50.0 18.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 48,975 45,220 3,640 55
Married or living with a common-law partner 30,615 27,905 2,635 35
Married (and not separated) 24,470 22,095 2,310 30
Living common law 6,145 5,815 320 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 18,360 17,320 1,005 20
Single (never legally married) 13,155 12,580 555 15
Separated 980 920 55 0
Divorced 2,180 2,005 170 5
Widowed 2,050 1,810 220 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 62,825 58,650 3,995 95
English only 55,140 55,140 0 0
French only 125 0 125 0
English and French 7,465 3,495 3,875 95
Neither English nor French 90 10 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 62,825 58,645 3,995 100
Single responses 61,975 57,885 3,970 45
English 51,875 51,870 0 0
French 4,365 405 3,960 0
Non-official languages 5,740 5,605 10 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 1,640 1,625 0 15
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,470 1,455 5 15
Dene 160 160 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 5 5 0 0
Stoney 5 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 4,070 3,955 10 30
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 90 90 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 200 185 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Bengali 10 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 30 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 65 70 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 455 450 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 15 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 15 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 85 75 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 30 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 205 195 0 0
Portuguese 25 20 0 0
Romanian 15 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 455 430 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 0 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 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 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 0 0 0 0
Spanish 170 155 0 15
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 450 445 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 1,280 1,280 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 30 25 0 0
Multiple responses 845 765 30 55
English and French 300 230 20 55
English and non-official language 500 500 0 0
French and non-official language 35 30 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 62,825 58,645 3,995 100
Single responses 61,935 57,930 3,885 40
English 58,830 56,415 2,415 0
French 1,570 100 1,465 0
Non-official languages 1,535 1,410 10 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 355 335 0 10
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 340 320 0 15
Dene 15 15 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 1,175 1,070 5 25
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 75 75 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 80 70 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 105 105 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 5
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 60 50 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 10 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 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) 10 5 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 25 20 5 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 195 170 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 20 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 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 80 65 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 245 240 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 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 75 70 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 885 720 110 55
English and French 200 35 115 60
English and non-official language 675 675 0 0
French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 62,825 58,650 4,000 100
None 56,435 54,075 2,215 75
Single responses 6,285 4,485 1,775 20
English 1,690 885 785 15
French 1,915 925 985 0
Non-official languages 2,685 2,675 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,050 1,050 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 960 960 5 0
Dene 90 90 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 15 1,605 1,595 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 20 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 145 145 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 20 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 130 125 5 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 5 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 55 55 0 0
Portuguese 20 15 0 5
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 225 225 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 100 100 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 175 170 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 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 0 0 0
Ukrainian 485 480 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 30 30 0 0
Multiple responses 95 85 5 5
English and French 10 5 0 5
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 80 75 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 62,825 58,645 4,000 100
English 58,650 58,645 0 0
French 4,000 0 4,000 0
English and French 100 0 0 100
Neither English nor French 80 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 4,050 0 4,000 50
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 6.4 0.0 100.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.

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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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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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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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