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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 Laval
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 397,565 66,400 292,630 31,350
0 to 4 years 23,120 4,020 15,850 1,030
5 to 9 years 22,435 4,410 16,565 1,370
10 to 14 years 23,685 4,140 17,565 1,960
15 to 19 years 27,475 4,430 20,315 2,705
20 to 24 years 24,885 3,835 18,485 2,495
25 to 29 years 22,065 3,935 15,510 2,540
30 to 34 years 24,405 5,005 16,510 2,780
35 to 39 years 26,655 6,015 17,330 3,210
40 to 44 years 29,705 6,355 19,985 3,220
45 to 49 years 33,140 6,200 24,135 2,595
50 to 54 years 32,170 4,730 25,035 2,130
55 to 59 years 25,970 3,365 20,630 1,595
60 to 64 years 21,660 2,855 16,865 1,390
65 to 69 years 17,885 2,125 14,245 950
70 to 74 years 14,550 1,880 11,330 685
75 to 79 years 12,655 1,610 9,905 400
80 to 84 years 9,005 1,005 7,280 210
85 years and over 6,110 490 5,085 85
Median ageFootnote 2 40.7 37.9 42.1 36.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 328,330 53,835 242,640 26,990
Married or living with a common-law partner 191,725 34,650 137,535 16,650
Married (and not separated) 142,000 30,815 92,725 15,645
Living common law 49,730 3,830 44,810 1,000
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 136,605 19,185 105,110 10,340
Single (never legally married) 92,050 13,470 69,795 8,495
Separated 5,085 810 3,850 315
Divorced 21,510 2,975 17,335 1,005
Widowed 17,960 1,930 14,130 530
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 397,565 66,400 292,630 31,350
English only 19,905 19,905 0 0
French only 145,655 0 145,655 0
English and French 224,625 46,445 146,835 31,345
Neither English nor French 7,375 50 135 10
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 397,570 66,400 292,625 31,355
Single responses 382,460 62,400 284,145 28,720
English 27,685 27,450 235 0
French 241,615 150 241,470 0
Non-official languages 113,160 34,800 42,445 28,725
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 6 112,605 34,735 42,070 28,640
African languages, n.i.e. 65 15 45 5
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 65 40 0 20
Albanian 330 35 165 100
Amharic 45 25 10 15
Arabic 22,265 2,015 12,825 6,220
Armenian 6,795 1,535 780 3,975
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 85 5 70 0
Bengali 280 160 15 85
Berber languages (Kabyle) 510 5 455 40
Bisayan languages 20 15 5 0
Bosnian 120 10 50 40
Bulgarian 430 50 135 230
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 320 115 65 95
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,555 480 455 395
Creoles 6,285 130 5,425 465
Croatian 385 205 80 85
Czech 80 25 30 30
Danish 5 5 5 0
Dutch 120 75 40 10
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 25 5 20 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 980 735 145 95
Greek 14,025 10,050 335 2,450
Gujarati 355 205 25 70
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 185 95 55 30
Hindi 140 100 10 20
Hungarian 705 290 170 190
Ilocano 30 25 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 60 20 10 15
Italian 16,810 10,830 3,295 2,255
Japanese 55 30 25 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 1,700 125 990 380
Korean 75 35 10 15
Kurdish 90 15 45 25
Lao 1,080 40 740 210
Latvian 15 5 0 0
Lingala 90 0 90 0
Lithuanian 25 15 10 0
Macedonian 30 5 15 10
Malay 25 15 0 5
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 370 130 85 110
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 20 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 185 10 155 15
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 670 10 565 75
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,405 730 95 375
Pashto 90 35 15 25
Persian (Farsi) 2,465 475 770 835
Polish 810 340 225 215
Portuguese 5,065 1,380 2,445 940
Romanian 5,235 240 2,195 2,520
Rundi (Kirundi) 85 0 65 10
Russian 1,690 340 565 665
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 80 0 70 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 35 10 15 10
Serbian 140 45 35 55
Serbo-Croatian 70 15 40 15
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 5 15 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 30 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 5 10 0
Slovak 60 35 20 5
Slovenian 80 65 10 5
Somali 15 5 5 5
Spanish 11,445 1,005 6,390 3,400
Swahili 65 10 50 10
Swedish 25 15 5 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 415 360 15 40
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 1,430 700 125 435
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 50 20 15 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 25 15 5 5
Turkish 725 130 295 185
Ukrainian 160 70 50 40
Urdu 980 495 65 315
Vietnamese 2,270 320 1,010 690
Yiddish 75 75 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 545 60 375 85
Multiple responses 15,110 4,000 8,480 2,630
English and French 3,780 825 1,475 1,475
English and non-official language 2,735 2,680 60 0
French and non-official language 6,550 35 6,515 0
English, French and non-official language 2,050 460 435 1,155
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 397,565 66,400 292,630 31,350
Single responses 369,480 59,895 276,565 25,830
English 51,335 47,900 3,435 0
French 259,090 2,800 256,285 0
Non-official languages 59,050 9,200 16,840 25,830
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 58,900 9,190 16,770 25,770
African languages, n.i.e. 25 0 15 10
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 35 15 5 15
Albanian 205 10 85 75
Amharic 15 5 0 10
Arabic 11,975 895 4,310 5,565
Armenian 5,530 625 550 3,835
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 0
Bengali 205 115 10 65
Berber languages (Kabyle) 145 0 95 35
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 85 10 30 40
Bulgarian 325 20 80 210
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 210 60 25 85
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,140 335 220 370
Creoles 2,140 20 1,455 415
Croatian 170 60 20 75
Czech 35 0 5 25
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 10 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 235 145 10 80
Greek 6,750 3,200 110 2,240
Gujarati 230 105 15 65
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 65 15 20 30
Hindi 80 50 0 20
Hungarian 365 90 75 150
Ilocano 10 5 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 50 15 5 15
Italian 3,375 180 1,170 1,600
Japanese 15 5 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 1,040 75 435 335
Korean 40 15 0 15
Kurdish 40 10 5 15
Lao 690 30 375 190
Latvian 10 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 10 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 5
Macedonian 15 5 5 5
Malay 15 10 5 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 285 90 45 110
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 0 30 10
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 160 0 80 60
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,070 520 45 305
Pashto 70 25 10 15
Persian (Farsi) 1,880 275 465 750
Polish 365 80 75 185
Portuguese 2,115 135 920 760
Romanian 4,025 95 1,240 2,405
Rundi (Kirundi) 35 0 20 10
Russian 1,290 185 335 655
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 5 5 10
Serbian 80 15 20 45
Serbo-Croatian 35 5 15 15
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 60 10 30 0
Sindhi 5 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 20 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 0 5 5
Slovenian 20 15 0 5
Somali 10 0 5 10
Spanish 7,500 295 3,355 3,195
Swahili 10 0 0 5
Swedish 0 0 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 110 70 5 35
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 1,215 535 100 410
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 5 5 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 5 0
Turkish 495 70 170 165
Ukrainian 50 10 10 25
Urdu 775 335 40 290
Vietnamese 1,745 230 580 665
Yiddish 10 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 150 5 70 60
Multiple responses 28,095 6,505 16,065 5,525
English and French 5,380 935 2,105 2,345
English and non-official language 5,175 5,070 105 0
French and non-official language 13,040 95 12,950 0
English, French and non-official language 4,490 405 910 3,175
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 397,570 66,400 292,630 31,355
None 294,875 34,440 238,615 15,225
Single responses 92,440 28,630 50,890 12,375
English 27,730 4,445 19,235 3,920
French 26,640 8,450 10,695 7,220
Non-official languages 38,070 15,730 20,960 1,235
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 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 14 37,685 15,705 20,620 1,225
African languages, n.i.e. 30 5 25 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 50 45 0 0
Albanian 75 10 55 10
Amharic 15 5 5 5
Arabic 7,965 740 6,955 245
Armenian 905 625 195 80
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 60 5 50 0
Bengali 45 35 10 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 255 0 255 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 25 0 20 0
Bulgarian 60 20 40 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 30 20 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 280 90 170 10
Creoles 5,490 120 5,325 45
Croatian 110 80 25 0
Czech 20 10 10 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 45 25 15 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 315 235 60 20
Greek 5,685 5,450 175 60
Gujarati 75 55 15 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 150 55 70 25
Hindi 70 40 10 15
Hungarian 135 100 30 5
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 5
Italian 6,735 5,460 1,005 275
Japanese 25 10 20 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 435 30 390 10
Korean 20 15 5 5
Kurdish 20 5 10 0
Lao 270 5 260 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 150 0 145 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 25 30 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 115 5 110 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 270 5 255 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 170 120 20 25
Pashto 15 5 5 5
Persian (Farsi) 290 115 145 25
Polish 140 90 50 0
Portuguese 1,605 690 860 60
Romanian 665 70 540 50
Rundi (Kirundi) 40 0 40 5
Russian 300 90 165 40
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 55 0 55 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5
Serbian 20 10 10 10
Serbo-Croatian 20 0 15 0
Shanghainese 5 5 5 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 10 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 2,985 480 2,420 80
Swahili 55 0 55 0
Swedish 10 5 5 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 165 160 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 165 140 25 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 25 10 10 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 5 5
Turkish 165 35 80 25
Ukrainian 45 20 20 10
Urdu 190 155 20 15
Vietnamese 390 70 280 25
Yiddish 10 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 375 25 340 5
Multiple responses 10,255 3,330 3,130 3,755
English and French 4,115 150 310 3,610
English and non-official language 2,725 100 2,600 25
French and non-official language 3,320 3,075 215 30
English, French and non-official language 95 10 10 80
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 397,565 66,400 292,630 31,355
English 66,400 66,400 0 0
French 292,630 0 292,630 0
English and French 31,350 0 0 31,355
Neither English nor French 7,185 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 82,075 66,400 0 15,675
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 20.6 100.0 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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Footnote 15

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 16

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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