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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 Belleville, CY
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 48,610 47,785 615 60
0 to 4 years 2,640 2,600 15 10
5 to 9 years 2,430 2,405 15 0
10 to 14 years 2,540 2,510 20 10
15 to 19 years 3,255 3,220 20 5
20 to 24 years 3,145 3,110 25 0
25 to 29 years 2,940 2,905 25 5
30 to 34 years 2,835 2,785 35 5
35 to 39 years 2,720 2,660 50 5
40 to 44 years 2,925 2,850 65 0
45 to 49 years 3,815 3,730 70 5
50 to 54 years 3,840 3,785 55 0
55 to 59 years 3,430 3,385 30 0
60 to 64 years 3,185 3,135 40 0
65 to 69 years 2,460 2,405 45 5
70 to 74 years 2,010 1,960 35 0
75 to 79 years 1,785 1,740 30 0
80 to 84 years 1,395 1,360 25 0
85 years and over 1,255 1,235 15 0
Median ageFootnote 2 43.0 42.9 47.9 22.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 41,000 40,265 565 35
Married or living with a common-law partner 22,970 22,520 360 15
Married (and not separated) 18,485 18,135 260 15
Living common law 4,490 4,385 95 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 18,030 17,745 210 20
Single (never legally married) 10,415 10,270 105 15
Separated 1,505 1,490 15 0
Divorced 2,925 2,880 35 5
Widowed 3,190 3,100 50 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 48,610 47,785 615 55
English only 45,545 45,545 0 0
French only 25 0 25 0
English and French 2,870 2,220 590 55
Neither English nor French 175 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 48,610 47,785 615 55
Single responses 48,265 47,460 610 45
English 44,770 44,770 0 0
French 655 55 600 0
Non-official languages 2,845 2,635 10 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 6 2,775 2,575 5 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 65 70 0 0
Armenian 15 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 10 15 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 40 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 195 170 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 5
Croatian 20 25 0 0
Czech 20 25 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 260 260 5 0
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 5 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 265 265 0 0
Greek 180 175 0 0
Gujarati 60 50 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 50 50 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 135 125 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 90 85 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 80 60 0 5
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 40 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 0
Polish 80 80 0 0
Portuguese 85 80 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 25 15 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 15 20 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 240 215 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 80 80 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 35 35 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 15 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 60 50 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 5
Ukrainian 35 35 0 0
Urdu 65 60 0 0
Vietnamese 85 70 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 65 55 0 0
Multiple responses 340 320 10 10
English and French 100 85 0 10
English and non-official language 230 225 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 48,610 47,780 615 60
Single responses 48,110 47,335 580 45
English 46,725 46,335 390 0
French 200 10 190 0
Non-official languages 1,180 985 0 45
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 1,140 955 0 45
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 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 20 10 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 125 95 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 25 25 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 30 30 0 0
Greek 65 65 0 5
Gujarati 40 40 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 15 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 45 40 0 0
Japanese 10 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 60 60 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 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 60 50 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 20 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 0
Portuguese 35 25 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 20 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 105 85 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 5
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 35 25 0 5
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 45 35 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 45 40 0 0
Vietnamese 55 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 40 30 0 0
Multiple responses 500 450 35 20
English and French 55 15 30 10
English and non-official language 430 430 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 48,610 47,785 615 55
None 46,500 45,970 355 30
Single responses 2,055 1,765 250 25
English 615 465 115 25
French 415 285 130 0
Non-official languages 1,025 1,010 5 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 14 950 940 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 45 40 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 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 45 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 70 75 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 90 90 0 0
Greek 70 70 0 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 40 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 5 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) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 15 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 30 30 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 30 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. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 140 140 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 15 10 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 70 65 5 0
Multiple responses 50 45 5 5
English and French 0 5 0 5
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 40 35 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 48,610 47,780 615 60
English 47,780 47,780 0 0
French 615 0 615 0
English and French 60 0 0 60
Neither English nor French 155 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 645 0 615 30
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.3 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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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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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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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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Footnote 14

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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