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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 Sherbrooke
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 152,445 7,100 142,505 2,080
0 to 4 years 8,370 275 7,800 60
5 to 9 years 7,655 310 7,215 85
10 to 14 years 8,220 280 7,775 140
15 to 19 years 9,805 435 9,050 300
20 to 24 years 12,450 605 11,550 270
25 to 29 years 11,075 505 10,335 200
30 to 34 years 10,285 440 9,590 220
35 to 39 years 8,935 390 8,290 215
40 to 44 years 9,160 435 8,540 160
45 to 49 years 10,940 490 10,250 140
50 to 54 years 11,465 495 10,840 80
55 to 59 years 10,800 470 10,235 60
60 to 64 years 9,700 500 9,095 45
65 to 69 years 7,675 365 7,250 35
70 to 74 years 5,305 315 4,940 25
75 to 79 years 4,340 265 4,025 25
80 to 84 years 3,265 240 2,990 10
85 years and over 3,010 280 2,710 5
Median ageFootnote 2 39.7 43.9 39.8 29.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 128,205 6,235 119,705 1,795
Married or living with a common-law partner 69,350 3,365 64,805 920
Married (and not separated) 39,075 2,485 35,515 820
Living common law 30,280 880 29,285 95
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 58,850 2,875 54,905 880
Single (never legally married) 39,710 1,810 37,060 760
Separated 1,730 95 1,605 25
Divorced 10,545 485 9,960 75
Widowed 6,865 480 6,285 30
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 152,450 7,100 142,505 2,080
English only 2,020 2,025 0 0
French only 85,820 0 85,820 0
English and French 63,815 5,075 56,660 2,075
Neither English nor French 795 5 25 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 152,450 7,100 142,505 2,080
Single responses 150,600 6,845 141,260 1,740
English 6,235 6,145 90 0
French 135,790 10 135,770 0
Non-official languages 8,580 680 5,395 1,735
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 5 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 5 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 5 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 8,400 670 5,245 1,715
African languages, n.i.e. 15 5 15 5
Afrikaans 5 5 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 1,160 55 775 205
Armenian 10 5 5 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 80 5 65 5
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 55 0 45 5
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 5
Bosnian 140 5 110 25
Bulgarian 25 0 15 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 10 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 165 75 35 30
Creoles 105 0 90 10
Croatian 60 0 35 15
Czech 35 0 15 10
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 40 15 10 10
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 5 5 5 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 115 55 50 10
Greek 60 15 25 20
Gujarati 5 0 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 5 0
Hindi 10 5 5 5
Hungarian 30 5 15 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 140 15 105 20
Japanese 20 10 10 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 60 5 40 10
Korean 30 20 5 10
Kurdish 20 0 15 0
Lao 15 0 10 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 45 0 45 0
Lithuanian 5 5 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 5 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 20 20 10
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 215 35 25 55
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 0 50 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 5
Oromo 60 0 55 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 5
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 725 85 315 165
Polish 110 15 60 35
Portuguese 165 5 100 55
Romanian 135 10 75 40
Rundi (Kirundi) 155 0 145 10
Russian 115 15 70 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 70 0 65 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
Serbian 430 10 265 120
Serbo-Croatian 390 0 250 115
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. 15 0 10 5
Slovak 20 0 10 5
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 10 0 5 5
Spanish 2,715 85 1,875 550
Swahili 135 5 120 10
Swedish 0 0 5 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 15 10 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 5 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 35 5 20 15
Ukrainian 15 5 5 5
Urdu 15 10 0 10
Vietnamese 155 10 95 40
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 175 10 145 20
Multiple responses 1,845 255 1,245 340
English and French 1,125 160 660 305
English and non-official language 100 90 5 0
French and non-official language 555 0 550 0
English, French and non-official language 70 5 30 35
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 152,445 7,100 142,505 2,080
Single responses 149,860 6,725 140,725 1,645
English 5,845 5,105 745 0
French 138,535 1,295 137,240 0
Non-official languages 5,480 330 2,745 1,640
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 5,420 325 2,705 1,620
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 595 20 260 185
Armenian 10 0 5 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 0 10 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 15 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 100 0 75 20
Bulgarian 15 0 5 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 135 60 25 35
Creoles 20 0 15 5
Croatian 40 0 20 10
Czech 20 0 5 10
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 0 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 15 5 0 10
Greek 30 0 5 20
Gujarati 0 0 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Italian 30 0 10 20
Japanese 15 5 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 40 0 25 10
Korean 35 15 5 10
Kurdish 10 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 15 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 45 15 10 15
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 200 30 20 50
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 0 10 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 620 75 215 160
Polish 55 5 20 30
Portuguese 105 5 45 55
Romanian 80 0 30 40
Rundi (Kirundi) 40 0 25 10
Russian 60 0 25 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 345 0 195 110
Serbo-Croatian 290 5 155 115
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 10 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. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 5 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 0 5 5
Spanish 2,055 40 1,270 535
Swahili 90 0 80 5
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 0 15 10
Ukrainian 5 0 5 5
Urdu 10 5 0 5
Vietnamese 100 5 40 40
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 60 5 40 20
Multiple responses 2,590 375 1,780 435
English and French 1,095 240 505 350
English and non-official language 125 115 15 0
French and non-official language 1,210 0 1,215 0
English, French and non-official language 150 20 45 85
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 152,450 7,100 142,505 2,080
None 137,415 4,435 131,215 1,075
Single responses 14,385 2,560 10,955 795
English 7,900 875 6,915 105
French 4,230 1,470 2,055 645
Non-official languages 2,255 215 1,985 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 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 5 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 2,145 215 1,875 50
African languages, n.i.e. 20 0 15 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 370 20 350 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 5 20 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 30 0 30 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 40 0 40 0
Bulgarian 10 0 10 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 10 15 0
Creoles 60 0 60 0
Croatian 15 5 10 0
Czech 10 0 10 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 5 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 50 25 25 0
Greek 15 0 10 0
Gujarati 5 0 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 5 5 0
Hungarian 10 0 10 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 60 10 50 0
Japanese 5 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 5 10 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 35 0 35 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 5 5 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 0 30 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 0 20 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 65 5 50 5
Polish 25 0 25 0
Portuguese 45 0 40 0
Romanian 25 5 20 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 65 0 65 0
Russian 50 10 30 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 35 0 35 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 55 10 50 0
Serbo-Croatian 60 0 60 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 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 0 5 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 635 45 580 10
Swahili 65 0 60 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 5 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 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 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 0 5 0
Urdu 20 10 0 5
Vietnamese 35 0 35 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 110 0 110 0
Multiple responses 650 105 335 205
English and French 240 15 20 190
English and non-official language 315 15 290 5
French and non-official language 85 65 15 5
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 152,445 7,100 142,505 2,080
English 7,100 7,100 0 0
French 142,505 0 142,505 0
English and French 2,075 0 0 2,080
Neither English nor French 765 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 8,140 7,100 0 1,040
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 5.3 100.0 0.0 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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Footnote 6

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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Footnote 10

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 11

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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