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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 Central Okanagan
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 177,620 174,020 2,710 260
0 to 4 years 8,300 8,145 30 15
5 to 9 years 8,515 8,435 50 15
10 to 14 years 9,520 9,440 55 20
15 to 19 years 11,000 10,905 65 25
20 to 24 years 11,600 11,475 105 15
25 to 29 years 11,000 10,855 120 10
30 to 34 years 9,895 9,730 135 15
35 to 39 years 10,090 9,925 140 10
40 to 44 years 11,510 11,295 175 25
45 to 49 years 13,640 13,375 205 25
50 to 54 years 14,260 13,945 275 15
55 to 59 years 13,010 12,675 285 10
60 to 64 years 12,235 11,900 265 10
65 to 69 years 9,435 9,140 230 10
70 to 74 years 8,080 7,785 210 10
75 to 79 years 6,540 6,310 165 15
80 to 84 years 4,990 4,840 105 10
85 years and over 3,980 3,845 95 5
Median ageFootnote 2 43.9 43.6 55.0 41.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 151,280 147,995 2,580 200
Married or living with a common-law partner 91,000 88,800 1,715 140
Married (and not separated) 76,895 75,025 1,395 135
Living common law 14,105 13,775 315 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 60,280 59,200 865 60
Single (never legally married) 36,165 35,710 370 45
Separated 4,395 4,325 65 0
Divorced 10,935 10,705 210 10
Widowed 8,790 8,455 220 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 177,615 174,020 2,710 260
English only 165,370 165,370 0 0
French only 65 0 65 0
English and French 11,520 8,615 2,640 260
Neither English nor French 665 35 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 177,620 174,020 2,710 260
Single responses 175,820 172,315 2,675 205
English 152,525 152,515 5 0
French 3,075 425 2,650 0
Non-official languages 20,220 19,370 15 205
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 20 25 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 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 6 19,995 19,160 15 200
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 115 110 0 5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 25 25 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 165 155 0 10
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 60 60 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 40 45 0 0
Bosnian 55 55 0 0
Bulgarian 45 45 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 235 200 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 540 485 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 340 330 0 0
Czech 280 280 0 0
Danish 185 180 0 5
Dutch 1,075 1,040 5 30
Estonian 30 30 0 0
Finnish 165 165 0 0
Flemish 25 20 0 0
Fukien 15 15 0 0
German 6,160 6,070 5 50
Greek 125 125 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 30 30 0 5
Hindi 125 120 0 0
Hungarian 715 690 5 10
Ilocano 55 55 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 920 895 0 10
Japanese 350 340 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 350 310 0 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 20 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0
Mandarin 205 185 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 100 105 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,760 1,505 0 20
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 215 195 0 5
Polish 705 695 0 5
Portuguese 355 340 0 10
Romanian 225 205 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 680 650 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 165 160 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 45 45 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Slovak 110 110 0 0
Slovenian 145 145 0 5
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 745 695 0 20
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 105 105 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 585 580 0 0
Taiwanese 20 15 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 65 70 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 40 40 5 0
Ukrainian 940 935 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0
Vietnamese 200 185 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 200 185 0 5
Multiple responses 1,795 1,705 35 50
English and French 395 335 10 50
English and non-official language 1,275 1,275 0 0
French and non-official language 90 65 25 0
English, French and non-official language 35 30 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 177,620 174,020 2,715 255
Single responses 175,060 171,645 2,610 180
English 168,460 166,505 1,950 0
French 720 70 650 0
Non-official languages 5,885 5,065 5 180
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 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 10 5,830 5,020 5 185
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 45 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 40 25 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 30 25 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 110 75 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 300 250 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 75 70 0 0
Czech 75 75 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 5
Dutch 145 115 0 25
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 40 40 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,040 950 5 50
Greek 45 40 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 5
Hindi 45 35 0 0
Hungarian 225 205 0 15
Ilocano 20 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 200 180 0 5
Japanese 100 90 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 255 220 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 135 110 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 20 20 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,210 955 0 15
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 120 100 0 5
Polish 180 170 0 5
Portuguese 90 75 0 10
Romanian 55 40 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 175 155 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 70 60 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 30 30 0 0
Slovenian 30 25 0 5
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 275 225 5 15
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 205 195 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 10 15 0 0
Ukrainian 70 60 0 0
Urdu 25 15 0 0
Vietnamese 120 105 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 60 45 0 0
Multiple responses 2,555 2,375 105 75
English and French 195 50 85 60
English and non-official language 2,315 2,300 10 0
French and non-official language 10 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 35 10 5 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 177,615 174,020 2,710 260
None 165,845 163,505 1,655 125
Single responses 11,545 10,325 1,045 120
English 2,985 2,465 370 105
French 1,705 1,050 650 5
Non-official languages 6,860 6,810 25 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 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 14 6,695 6,645 25 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 70 65 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 70 65 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 95 95 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 130 130 0 0
Creoles 35 35 0 0
Croatian 150 150 0 0
Czech 90 85 0 0
Danish 70 70 0 0
Dutch 270 270 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 50 50 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 1,875 1,870 5 0
Greek 50 55 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 95 95 0 0
Hungarian 215 220 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 315 310 0 0
Japanese 185 185 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 75 75 5 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 90 90 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 25 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 405 405 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 80 80 0 0
Polish 235 235 5 0
Portuguese 140 145 0 0
Romanian 75 70 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 215 210 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 75 75 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 40 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. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 40 35 0 0
Slovenian 45 45 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 580 575 5 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 215 210 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 40 45 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 15 20 0 0
Ukrainian 175 175 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 70 70 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 140 140 0 0
Multiple responses 230 195 15 20
English and French 20 5 5 15
English and non-official language 50 35 0 0
French and non-official language 160 150 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 177,620 174,020 2,710 260
English 174,020 174,020 0 0
French 2,715 0 2,715 0
English and French 260 0 0 260
Neither English nor French 630 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,840 0 2,710 130
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.6 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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