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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 Peterborough, CYFootnote 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 77,570 76,445 835 95
0 to 4 years 3,905 3,830 30 10
5 to 9 years 3,535 3,495 25 10
10 to 14 years 3,875 3,830 35 10
15 to 19 years 5,085 5,030 35 15
20 to 24 years 6,435 6,380 35 15
25 to 29 years 5,435 5,360 60 10
30 to 34 years 4,395 4,350 35 5
35 to 39 years 4,095 4,035 50 0
40 to 44 years 4,485 4,410 65 10
45 to 49 years 5,365 5,265 85 5
50 to 54 years 5,700 5,615 65 5
55 to 59 years 5,305 5,225 55 10
60 to 64 years 5,020 4,950 50 5
65 to 69 years 3,805 3,730 60 0
70 to 74 years 3,105 3,050 40 5
75 to 79 years 2,980 2,915 40 5
80 to 84 years 2,595 2,545 40 0
85 years and over 2,455 2,420 25 0
Median ageFootnote 3 42.2 42.1 47.2 24.7
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 66,255 65,280 740 70
Married or living with a common-law partner 35,455 34,875 460 35
Married (and not separated) 28,670 28,180 375 35
Living common law 6,780 6,690 90 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 30,795 30,410 280 40
Single (never legally married) 18,570 18,370 135 30
Separated 2,455 2,420 25 5
Divorced 4,660 4,600 50 0
Widowed 5,110 5,020 70 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 77,570 76,445 830 100
English only 71,665 71,670 0 0
French only 20 0 20 0
English and French 5,670 4,765 810 100
Neither English nor French 210 15 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 77,570 76,445 835 100
Single responses 77,060 75,970 820 75
English 71,555 71,550 5 0
French 900 95 800 0
Non-official languages 4,605 4,325 10 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 30 30 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 20 25 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 4,495 4,225 10 70
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 75 70 0 5
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 140 130 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Bengali 40 35 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 70 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 295 255 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 20 15 0 0
Czech 50 50 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0
Dutch 355 350 0 5
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 50 45 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 510 505 0 0
Greek 85 80 0 0
Gujarati 150 130 5 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 10 0 0
Hindi 80 70 0 0
Hungarian 90 85 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 270 260 5 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 70 65 0 0
Korean 165 155 0 0
Kurdish 10 5 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0
Mandarin 95 85 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 15 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 60 0 0
Pashto 25 20 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 95 90 0 5
Polish 345 330 0 10
Portuguese 65 60 0 0
Romanian 45 35 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 80 65 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0
Spanish 285 265 0 10
Swahili 10 5 0 0
Swedish 15 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 75 80 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 55 50 0 5
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 20 15 0 5
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 65 60 0 0
Urdu 110 105 0 0
Vietnamese 130 115 0 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 85 70 0 0
Multiple responses 510 475 15 25
English and French 155 125 15 20
English and non-official language 325 325 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 77,570 76,440 835 95
Single responses 76,770 75,710 795 70
English 74,795 74,235 560 0
French 265 30 235 0
Non-official languages 1,710 1,440 5 70
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 5 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 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 1,665 1,410 0 70
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 35 25 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 75 60 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 20 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 190 150 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 25 20 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 45 40 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 90 75 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 20 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 75 60 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 25 0 0
Korean 130 120 0 0
Kurdish 10 5 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 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 75 65 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 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) 35 30 0 0
Pashto 20 15 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 50 45 0 5
Polish 145 125 0 10
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 30 0 5
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. 20 15 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0
Spanish 125 110 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 25 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 25 20 0 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 15 10 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 5
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 85 75 0 0
Vietnamese 75 55 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 40 25 0 0
Multiple responses 795 735 35 30
English and French 95 35 35 25
English and non-official language 695 695 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 77,570 76,445 830 100
None 74,105 73,415 460 55
Single responses 3,390 2,965 365 40
English 895 725 125 30
French 870 635 235 5
Non-official languages 1,625 1,610 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 55 55 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 45 50 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,505 1,485 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 45 45 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 40 40 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 30 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 55 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 80 80 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 180 180 0 0
Greek 45 45 0 0
Gujarati 30 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 35 30 0 0
Hungarian 30 35 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 85 80 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 35 35 0 0
Korean 20 25 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 35 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 110 105 0 0
Portuguese 35 30 5 0
Romanian 20 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 5 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 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 170 165 5 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 15 0 0
Urdu 25 20 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 70 70 0 0
Multiple responses 70 60 10 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 15 15 5 0
French and non-official language 50 45 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 77,570 76,440 835 100
English 76,440 76,445 0 0
French 830 0 835 0
English and French 95 0 0 100
Neither English nor French 195 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 880 0 830 45
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.1 0.0 99.4 45.0

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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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Footnote 7

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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Footnote 10

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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Footnote 14

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 17

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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