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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 Hastings
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 133,325 130,235 2,710 140
0 to 4 years 6,845 6,705 105 15
5 to 9 years 6,755 6,640 100 15
10 to 14 years 7,555 7,430 95 25
15 to 19 years 8,915 8,790 105 15
20 to 24 years 7,590 7,455 125 5
25 to 29 years 7,085 6,915 160 10
30 to 34 years 7,155 6,945 190 10
35 to 39 years 7,225 7,000 205 10
40 to 44 years 8,365 8,110 230 5
45 to 49 years 11,015 10,710 285 5
50 to 54 years 11,235 10,980 240 5
55 to 59 years 10,075 9,895 160 0
60 to 64 years 9,785 9,585 170 5
65 to 69 years 7,425 7,225 175 5
70 to 74 years 5,880 5,710 145 5
75 to 79 years 4,590 4,465 100 0
80 to 84 years 3,230 3,155 60 0
85 years and over 2,590 2,530 40 0
Median ageFootnote 2 44.5 44.5 45.7 25.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 112,170 109,460 2,415 90
Married or living with a common-law partner 68,175 66,355 1,655 40
Married (and not separated) 55,775 54,385 1,235 40
Living common law 12,400 11,975 415 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 43,990 43,105 760 50
Single (never legally married) 25,705 25,235 405 35
Separated 3,650 3,575 65 5
Divorced 7,015 6,860 150 5
Widowed 7,615 7,430 135 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 133,325 130,235 2,710 140
English only 124,790 124,790 0 0
French only 160 0 160 0
English and French 8,100 5,410 2,550 140
Neither English nor French 275 40 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 133,325 130,235 2,710 140
Single responses 132,570 129,565 2,675 90
English 123,780 123,775 0 0
French 2,855 205 2,650 0
Non-official languages 5,935 5,585 25 90
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 25 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 5 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 5,775 5,445 20 90
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 10 5 0 0
Arabic 90 80 0 5
Armenian 20 15 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 20 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 105 70 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 265 220 0 5
Creoles 10 5 0 5
Croatian 45 45 0 0
Czech 65 65 0 0
Danish 50 50 0 0
Dutch 895 890 0 0
Estonian 25 25 0 5
Finnish 85 85 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 950 930 5 10
Greek 265 260 0 5
Gujarati 90 85 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 20 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 135 130 0 0
Ilocano 10 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 305 290 0 10
Japanese 25 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 195 180 0 10
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 30 25 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 20 20 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0
Mandarin 95 75 0 5
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 5 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 80 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 45 35 0 5
Polish 235 225 0 0
Portuguese 175 165 0 5
Romanian 30 30 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 65 65 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 30 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 40 40 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 345 315 5 10
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 130 125 0 5
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 50 40 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 20 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 70 60 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 5
Ukrainian 110 105 0 0
Urdu 75 70 0 0
Vietnamese 120 110 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 135 120 0 0
Multiple responses 760 670 35 50
English and French 280 205 20 45
English and non-official language 435 435 0 0
French and non-official language 25 15 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 15 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 133,325 130,235 2,710 140
Single responses 132,370 129,435 2,615 85
English 129,165 127,740 1,430 0
French 1,235 55 1,185 0
Non-official languages 1,965 1,645 5 80
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 5 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 1,885 1,575 5 80
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 5
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 60 35 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 160 125 0 10
Creoles 0 0 0 5
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 5
Dutch 70 65 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 140 130 0 5
Greek 105 100 0 0
Gujarati 55 45 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 10 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 30 30 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 100 80 0 5
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 145 130 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 65 45 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 50 40 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 25 0 0
Polish 65 55 0 0
Portuguese 60 45 0 5
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 60 40 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 145 115 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 40 40 0 5
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 35 30 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 10 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 45 40 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 20 0 0
Urdu 50 45 0 0
Vietnamese 80 70 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 80 70 0 0
Multiple responses 955 795 95 60
English and French 165 30 85 50
English and non-official language 760 760 0 0
French and non-official language 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 10 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 133,325 130,240 2,710 145
None 128,360 126,525 1,525 85
Single responses 4,870 3,630 1,170 55
English 1,445 780 605 45
French 1,280 735 545 5
Non-official languages 2,145 2,120 15 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 15 10 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 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,960 1,940 10 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 50 50 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 65 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 230 230 0 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 340 335 0 0
Greek 105 105 0 0
Gujarati 35 40 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 45 40 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 95 95 0 5
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 50 50 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 25 25 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 20 0 0
Polish 65 70 0 0
Portuguese 75 75 0 0
Romanian 15 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 10 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 210 205 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 0 5
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 15 0 0
Urdu 25 30 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 165 165 0 0
Multiple responses 95 80 15 0
English and French 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 20 10 10 0
French and non-official language 70 60 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 133,325 130,235 2,710 140
English 130,240 130,235 0 0
French 2,710 0 2,710 0
English and French 140 0 0 140
Neither English nor French 240 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,780 0 2,710 70
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.1 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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