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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 Ajax, T
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 109,300 106,040 1,670 480
0 to 4 years 7,300 7,000 80 25
5 to 9 years 7,305 7,170 90 40
10 to 14 years 8,020 7,845 100 70
15 to 19 years 8,940 8,780 100 60
20 to 24 years 7,410 7,295 65 40
25 to 29 years 6,540 6,430 75 30
30 to 34 years 7,380 7,195 140 30
35 to 39 years 8,110 7,885 170 45
40 to 44 years 8,645 8,445 130 45
45 to 49 years 9,930 9,660 195 30
50 to 54 years 8,865 8,625 160 20
55 to 59 years 6,440 6,230 105 15
60 to 64 years 5,055 4,845 95 5
65 to 69 years 3,275 3,075 60 5
70 to 74 years 2,305 2,115 30 10
75 to 79 years 1,805 1,645 40 0
80 to 84 years 1,195 1,085 20 0
85 years and over 790 710 15 0
Median ageFootnote 2 36.1 35.8 40.6 24.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 86,675 84,025 1,395 340
Married or living with a common-law partner 51,380 49,720 925 185
Married (and not separated) 46,000 44,485 795 175
Living common law 5,375 5,235 125 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 35,300 34,305 475 155
Single (never legally married) 25,505 25,050 290 135
Separated 2,535 2,460 35 10
Divorced 4,105 3,985 90 5
Widowed 3,155 2,805 60 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 109,300 106,035 1,665 485
English only 100,425 100,425 0 0
French only 80 0 75 0
English and French 7,655 5,580 1,585 485
Neither English nor French 1,145 25 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 109,305 106,040 1,665 480
Single responses 106,460 103,400 1,555 385
English 83,200 83,200 0 0
French 1,575 85 1,490 0
Non-official languages 21,680 20,120 60 385
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 21,455 19,915 60 375
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 105 105 0 0
Albanian 40 30 5 0
Amharic 35 35 0 0
Arabic 1,190 1,040 10 85
Armenian 70 70 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0
Bengali 310 300 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 70 70 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 515 425 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 615 545 0 0
Creoles 65 30 20 10
Croatian 90 85 0 0
Czech 35 40 0 0
Danish 35 35 0 0
Dutch 215 215 5 5
Estonian 45 40 0 0
Finnish 55 55 0 0
Flemish 5 10 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 610 605 0 0
Greek 500 490 0 0
Gujarati 570 535 0 5
Hakka 30 30 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 605 585 0 5
Hungarian 210 205 0 0
Ilocano 60 60 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Italian 990 935 0 5
Japanese 45 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0
Korean 165 150 0 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 25 25 0 0
Lingala 10 0 0 5
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 455 425 0 0
Malay 50 50 0 0
Malayalam 140 140 0 5
Maltese 30 30 0 0
Mandarin 360 295 0 5
Marathi 25 25 0 0
Nepali 20 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 50 0 5
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 15 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 720 650 0 5
Pashto 85 80 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 1,395 1,235 0 35
Polish 545 510 0 10
Portuguese 590 560 0 10
Romanian 330 280 0 35
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0
Russian 200 185 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 85 75 0 0
Serbian 95 90 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 85 80 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 195 190 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slovak 50 45 0 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0
Somali 60 55 0 0
Spanish 1,095 1,010 0 30
Swahili 40 35 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 2,265 2,235 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 2,025 1,825 0 35
Telugu 85 80 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 45 40 0 0
Ukrainian 85 80 0 0
Urdu 2,330 2,205 0 25
Vietnamese 295 260 0 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 215 200 5 10
Multiple responses 2,845 2,640 110 100
English and French 325 230 25 70
English and non-official language 2,335 2,330 0 0
French and non-official language 115 35 80 0
English, French and non-official language 70 40 5 25
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 109,300 106,040 1,670 480
Single responses 104,220 101,255 1,495 360
English 93,430 92,690 740 0
French 760 35 730 0
Non-official languages 10,030 8,535 30 360
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 9,975 8,490 20 350
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 40 40 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 550 420 5 75
Armenian 35 25 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 175 165 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 350 255 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 320 260 0 5
Creoles 15 0 5 10
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 20 15 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 55 50 0 5
Greek 120 110 0 5
Gujarati 255 220 0 0
Hakka 10 10 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 295 270 0 5
Hungarian 60 55 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Italian 170 115 0 5
Japanese 20 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 90 80 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 210 185 0 5
Malay 25 20 0 0
Malayalam 60 55 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 275 210 0 5
Marathi 10 5 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 400 340 0 5
Pashto 65 55 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 905 745 0 35
Polish 225 195 0 10
Portuguese 140 110 0 10
Romanian 195 150 0 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 110 95 5 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 45 35 0 0
Serbian 40 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0
Sindhi 45 40 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 70 70 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 30 20 0 0
Spanish 540 460 5 30
Swahili 10 0 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 750 725 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 1,355 1,150 0 35
Telugu 40 40 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0
Ukrainian 20 15 0 0
Urdu 1,375 1,255 0 25
Vietnamese 185 150 0 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 55 40 5 10
Multiple responses 5,080 4,780 175 125
English and French 265 80 105 80
English and non-official language 4,665 4,655 5 0
French and non-official language 40 5 35 0
English, French and non-official language 110 45 20 45
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 109,300 106,040 1,670 480
None 93,955 91,930 765 240
Single responses 15,035 13,870 860 215
English 5,375 4,720 395 190
French 1,295 935 355 10
Non-official languages 8,365 8,215 115 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 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 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 8,240 8,095 110 15
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 15 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 55 55 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 15 15 0 0
Arabic 520 505 10 5
Armenian 30 35 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 15 10 0
Bengali 75 70 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 120 120 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 160 155 0 0
Creoles 140 105 30 0
Croatian 30 30 0 0
Czech 20 25 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0
Dutch 70 70 0 0
Estonian 20 15 0 0
Finnish 35 30 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 235 230 5 0
Greek 325 325 0 0
Gujarati 220 215 5 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 345 340 0 0
Hungarian 70 70 0 0
Ilocano 25 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 430 430 0 0
Japanese 10 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 55 60 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 15 0 0
Lingala 25 0 20 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 175 170 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0
Malayalam 55 50 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 100 95 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 80 70 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 270 265 0 0
Pashto 20 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 300 300 0 0
Polish 180 175 0 0
Portuguese 275 275 0 0
Romanian 110 115 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 50 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Serbian 45 45 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 65 65 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 145 140 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0
Slovenian 15 20 0 0
Somali 25 25 0 0
Spanish 485 480 5 0
Swahili 45 30 15 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 980 980 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 595 595 0 0
Telugu 40 40 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 30 30 0 0
Ukrainian 20 20 0 0
Urdu 745 745 0 0
Vietnamese 70 65 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 115 115 5 0
Multiple responses 315 240 45 30
English and French 40 10 5 25
English and non-official language 115 85 30 5
French and non-official language 155 145 15 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 109,300 106,040 1,665 485
English 106,040 106,040 0 0
French 1,665 0 1,670 0
English and French 480 0 0 485
Neither English nor French 1,115 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,910 0 1,665 240
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.7 0.0 100.0 49.5

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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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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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