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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, V
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 152,450 7,100 142,505 2,080
0 to 4 years 8,370 275 7,800 60
5 to 9 years 7,655 310 7,220 80
10 to 14 years 8,220 280 7,775 140
15 to 19 years 9,805 435 9,050 300
20 to 24 years 12,445 605 11,550 275
25 to 29 years 11,075 500 10,335 200
30 to 34 years 10,280 440 9,590 220
35 to 39 years 8,940 390 8,290 215
40 to 44 years 9,165 440 8,540 160
45 to 49 years 10,940 490 10,255 140
50 to 54 years 11,465 490 10,840 85
55 to 59 years 10,800 470 10,235 60
60 to 64 years 9,695 500 9,100 50
65 to 69 years 7,675 365 7,245 35
70 to 74 years 5,305 315 4,940 25
75 to 79 years 4,340 270 4,030 25
80 to 84 years 3,260 240 2,995 5
85 years and over 3,005 275 2,715 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 69,355 3,365 64,800 915
Married (and not separated) 39,075 2,480 35,515 820
Living common law 30,275 880 29,290 100
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 58,850 2,870 54,905 875
Single (never legally married) 39,710 1,815 37,060 760
Separated 1,730 95 1,600 20
Divorced 10,545 485 9,960 70
Widowed 6,860 480 6,280 30
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 152,445 7,100 142,505 2,080
English only 2,025 2,020 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 20 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 152,450 7,100 142,505 2,080
Single responses 150,600 6,845 141,255 1,735
English 6,235 6,150 90 0
French 135,785 10 135,775 0
Non-official languages 8,575 680 5,395 1,735
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 0 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 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 8,400 675 5,245 1,715
African languages, n.i.e. 15 0 15 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 0 10 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 1,160 55 775 205
Armenian 10 0 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 80 0 65 5
Bengali 5 0 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 55 0 50 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 5
Bosnian 145 0 110 25
Bulgarian 25 0 15 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 10 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 165 70 35 30
Creoles 105 0 90 10
Croatian 60 0 40 15
Czech 35 5 15 15
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 40 15 10 10
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 5 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 115 55 50 10
Greek 65 15 25 20
Gujarati 10 0 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 5 0
Hindi 10 10 5 0
Hungarian 30 5 15 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 140 15 105 20
Japanese 20 10 10 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 5 40 10
Korean 35 20 5 10
Kurdish 20 0 15 0
Lao 15 0 15 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 45 0 45 5
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 5
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 20 20 10
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 215 35 25 55
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 0 55 5
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 60 0 55 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 5 0 0
Pashto 5 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 725 85 315 165
Polish 110 10 60 35
Portuguese 165 5 100 50
Romanian 135 10 75 45
Rundi (Kirundi) 160 0 145 10
Russian 115 20 70 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 70 0 65 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 5
Serbian 430 10 265 120
Serbo-Croatian 390 5 250 115
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Slovak 15 0 10 5
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 10 0 5 5
Spanish 2,715 80 1,875 550
Swahili 135 0 115 10
Swedish 0 0 5 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 15 15 5 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 0 20 10
Ukrainian 15 5 5 5
Urdu 20 10 0 5
Vietnamese 155 10 95 40
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 175 5 145 20
Multiple responses 1,845 260 1,245 340
English and French 1,130 160 660 305
English and non-official language 95 90 10 0
French and non-official language 550 0 555 0
English, French and non-official language 70 5 30 35
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 152,450 7,100 142,505 2,075
Single responses 149,860 6,730 140,725 1,645
English 5,845 5,105 740 0
French 138,535 1,290 137,240 0
Non-official languages 5,485 330 2,745 1,645
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 2,710 1,620
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 595 25 265 185
Armenian 10 0 5 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 0 10 0
Bengali 5 0 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 20 5 10 5
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 5
Bosnian 105 0 75 20
Bulgarian 15 0 5 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 135 55 20 30
Creoles 20 0 10 5
Croatian 35 0 20 15
Czech 20 0 5 15
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 0 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 15 5 5 5
Greek 35 0 5 20
Gujarati 0 0 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 5 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0
Italian 30 0 10 20
Japanese 20 10 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 40 0 25 5
Korean 35 15 5 15
Kurdish 10 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 15 5
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 40 15 10 15
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 200 30 20 50
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 0 10 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 5 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 620 75 215 160
Polish 50 5 20 30
Portuguese 105 5 45 55
Romanian 75 0 30 40
Rundi (Kirundi) 35 0 25 10
Russian 55 5 25 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 345 0 200 110
Serbo-Croatian 295 0 155 115
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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 5 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 5 5
Spanish 2,055 40 1,270 535
Swahili 90 0 75 5
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 0 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 0 15 10
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 5
Vietnamese 100 10 40 40
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 65 5 35 15
Multiple responses 2,590 370 1,780 435
English and French 1,095 235 505 350
English and non-official language 130 115 15 0
French and non-official language 1,215 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 137,410 4,430 131,215 1,070
Single responses 14,385 2,560 10,955 800
English 7,900 875 6,915 105
French 4,230 1,470 2,055 640
Non-official languages 2,255 215 1,980 50
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 5 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 2,140 215 1,870 45
African languages, n.i.e. 15 0 20 0
Afrikaans 5 5 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 0 20 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 35 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 10 0 10 0
Czech 15 0 15 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 5 5 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 50 25 25 0
Greek 20 5 15 0
Gujarati 5 0 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 5 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 10 0 5 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 60 5 50 0
Japanese 5 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 0 10 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 35 0 30 0
Lithuanian 0 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 0 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 0 30 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 0 15 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 60 5 50 5
Polish 25 0 25 0
Portuguese 50 5 40 5
Romanian 20 5 20 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 65 0 65 0
Russian 45 10 30 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 30 0 35 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 55 10 50 0
Serbo-Croatian 60 0 60 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 640 45 580 10
Swahili 65 0 60 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 5 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 0 115 0
Multiple responses 650 105 335 205
English and French 235 20 25 195
English and non-official language 315 20 290 5
French and non-official language 85 65 15 5
English, French and non-official language 10 0 5 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 152,450 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 8,135 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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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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