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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 Barrhead, TFootnote 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 4,290 4,210 65 5
0 to 4 years 265 265 0 0
5 to 9 years 250 250 0 0
10 to 14 years 260 260 0 0
15 to 19 years 240 245 0 0
20 to 24 years 260 260 0 0
25 to 29 years 270 270 5 0
30 to 34 years 220 215 0 0
35 to 39 years 220 215 5 0
40 to 44 years 230 225 0 0
45 to 49 years 265 260 5 5
50 to 54 years 275 265 10 0
55 to 59 years 285 280 0 5
60 to 64 years 250 240 10 0
65 to 69 years 215 205 10 0
70 to 74 years 215 210 5 0
75 to 79 years 210 205 5 0
80 to 84 years 180 175 5 0
85 years and over 180 175 5 0
Median ageFootnote 3 43.6 43.2 61.2 52.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 3,510 3,435 60 5
Married or living with a common-law partner 1,995 1,955 40 0
Married (and not separated) 1,715 1,670 35 0
Living common law 285 285 5 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 1,515 1,480 25 0
Single (never legally married) 765 760 0 0
Separated 100 100 5 0
Divorced 250 235 10 0
Widowed 395 385 5 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 4,290 4,205 65 5
English only 4,080 4,080 0 0
French only 0 0 0 0
English and French 190 130 60 5
Neither English nor French 20 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 4,290 4,210 60 5
Single responses 4,235 4,150 60 0
English 3,590 3,595 0 0
French 75 15 60 0
Non-official languages 570 545 0 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 5 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 5 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 7 560 535 0 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 25 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 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 80 75 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 230 230 0 5
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 5 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 25 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 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. 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 60 55 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 25 25 0 0
Taiwanese 0 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 40 35 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 55 55 0 0
English and French 10 10 0 0
English and non-official language 45 50 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 4,290 4,205 60 5
Single responses 4,215 4,135 60 5
English 4,030 3,980 50 0
French 15 10 10 0
Non-official languages 170 145 0 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 170 150 0 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 25 15 0 5
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 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 10 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 35 35 0 5
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 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) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 5 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5
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. 10 10 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 40 35 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 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 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 70 70 5 0
English and French 0 5 5 0
English and non-official language 70 70 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 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 4,290 4,210 60 5
None 4,070 4,005 50 5
Single responses 220 205 15 0
English 50 45 0 0
French 35 30 10 0
Non-official languages 130 130 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 5 5 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 15 125 120 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 5 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 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 25 20 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 45 45 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 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) 0 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 5 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 0 5 0 0
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. 5 0 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 15 20 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 5 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 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 0 0 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 4,290 4,210 60 5
English 4,205 4,210 0 0
French 60 0 65 0
English and French 5 0 0 0
Neither English nor French 15 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 65 0 60 0
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.5 0.0 100.0 0.0

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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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Footnote 7

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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