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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 L'AssomptionFootnote 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 118,980 2,120 115,775 900
0 to 4 years 6,685 105 6,485 40
5 to 9 years 6,075 85 5,955 30
10 to 14 years 7,200 85 7,060 55
15 to 19 years 9,140 115 8,945 80
20 to 24 years 7,210 85 7,070 50
25 to 29 years 6,325 110 6,150 65
30 to 34 years 7,245 160 7,000 80
35 to 39 years 7,350 165 7,050 135
40 to 44 years 8,115 205 7,800 105
45 to 49 years 10,420 240 10,085 90
50 to 54 years 10,935 210 10,665 60
55 to 59 years 8,845 140 8,655 40
60 to 64 years 7,445 170 7,235 25
65 to 69 years 5,890 85 5,770 15
70 to 74 years 4,000 60 3,915 15
75 to 79 years 2,915 40 2,855 5
80 to 84 years 1,980 40 1,920 10
85 years and over 1,200 30 1,165 0
Median ageFootnote 3 41.4 44.0 41.4 36.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 99,020 1,840 96,280 770
Married or living with a common-law partner 60,495 1,285 58,650 500
Married (and not separated) 36,035 955 34,580 440
Living common law 24,460 330 24,065 55
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 38,525 555 37,630 265
Single (never legally married) 26,355 335 25,785 215
Separated 1,280 25 1,235 15
Divorced 6,240 110 6,090 30
Widowed 4,650 85 4,515 15
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 118,975 2,120 115,780 895
English only 270 270 0 0
French only 73,095 0 73,095 0
English and French 45,400 1,845 42,660 895
Neither English nor French 205 0 15 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 118,975 2,115 115,775 900
Single responses 117,620 2,010 114,675 750
English 1,630 1,560 70 0
French 111,225 15 111,205 0
Non-official languages 4,770 440 3,395 745
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 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 7 4,715 435 3,350 745
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 5 5 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 565 10 470 75
Armenian 5 0 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Bengali 5 5 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 60 5 55 5
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 0 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 50 10 25 5
Creoles 970 5 860 65
Croatian 10 0 5 5
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 5 10 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 35 0 35 0
Greek 80 15 25 35
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 10 15 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 630 225 320 80
Japanese 0 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 60 5 40 10
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 10 0 5 0
Lao 40 0 35 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 25 0 20 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 25 0 10 10
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 0 20 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 5
Oromo 90 0 70 15
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 5 10 5
Polish 35 5 20 5
Portuguese 305 30 220 40
Romanian 170 5 105 55
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 0 15 0
Russian 50 5 25 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 15 0 10 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 5 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 1,185 45 805 280
Swahili 10 5 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 10 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 0 5 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 0 10 5
Ukrainian 15 5 5 0
Urdu 10 5 0 5
Vietnamese 60 0 50 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 50 5 45 5
Multiple responses 1,360 110 1,105 145
English and French 655 35 500 120
English and non-official language 75 65 10 0
French and non-official language 555 5 550 0
English, French and non-official language 70 5 35 25
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 118,975 2,115 115,775 895
Single responses 117,200 1,920 114,480 610
English 1,335 1,080 255 0
French 114,050 770 113,280 0
Non-official languages 1,820 70 945 610
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 1,795 70 930 605
African languages, n.i.e. 0 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 185 0 105 70
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 15 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 10 20 5
Creoles 285 10 175 55
Croatian 5 0 0 5
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 5 0 5 0
Greek 45 5 5 30
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 75 5 35 30
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 5 10 5
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 25 0 15 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 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 20 5 5 5
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 30 0 15 10
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 0 5 5
Polish 15 0 10 5
Portuguese 85 5 40 25
Romanian 120 5 60 50
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 0 10 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 0 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 680 15 360 255
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 5
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 15 0 10 0
Ukrainian 10 0 0 5
Urdu 0 0 0 5
Vietnamese 20 5 5 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 20 0 15 5
Multiple responses 1,775 195 1,295 280
English and French 560 115 270 175
English and non-official language 60 55 10 0
French and non-official language 975 5 965 0
English, French and non-official language 180 25 50 105
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 118,980 2,120 115,775 895
None 109,950 955 108,395 420
Single responses 8,585 1,070 7,085 410
English 4,630 420 4,170 40
French 1,520 465 720 320
Non-official languages 2,435 185 2,200 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 5 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 15 2,395 185 2,160 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 320 0 315 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 35 0 35 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 10 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 0 10 0
Creoles 870 5 865 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 15 5 10 0
Greek 30 5 20 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 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 225 110 100 25
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 0 30 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 20 0 15 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 20 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 0 0 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 0 15 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 25 0 25 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 0 10 0
Polish 10 0 10 0
Portuguese 115 15 95 5
Romanian 20 0 15 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 15 0
Russian 10 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
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. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 510 20 485 0
Swahili 10 0 10 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 5 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 30 5 25 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 35 0 30 5
Multiple responses 450 85 300 65
English and French 75 5 10 60
English and non-official language 295 15 280 0
French and non-official language 70 70 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 118,980 2,115 115,775 895
English 2,115 2,115 0 0
French 115,780 0 115,775 0
English and French 895 0 0 900
Neither English nor French 185 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 2,560 2,115 0 450
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 2.2 100.0 0.0 50.3

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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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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