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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 Cambridge, 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 125,640 121,695 1,625 335
0 to 4 years 7,955 7,695 35 15
5 to 9 years 8,155 8,070 35 30
10 to 14 years 8,245 8,145 50 45
15 to 19 years 8,830 8,730 65 30
20 to 24 years 8,140 8,040 65 20
25 to 29 years 8,025 7,910 75 15
30 to 34 years 8,320 8,155 110 25
35 to 39 years 9,240 9,060 115 20
40 to 44 years 9,535 9,320 145 25
45 to 49 years 10,625 10,300 230 25
50 to 54 years 9,265 8,965 160 25
55 to 59 years 7,920 7,590 155 15
60 to 64 years 6,670 6,320 130 10
65 to 69 years 4,740 4,380 105 20
70 to 74 years 3,540 3,175 65 10
75 to 79 years 2,790 2,500 40 5
80 to 84 years 1,925 1,745 25 5
85 years and over 1,730 1,595 25 5
Median ageFootnote 2 37.8 37.3 47.7 33.1
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 101,295 97,790 1,515 240
Married or living with a common-law partner 60,655 58,275 1,040 150
Married (and not separated) 51,415 49,260 845 140
Living common law 9,235 9,020 195 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 40,635 39,510 475 95
Single (never legally married) 26,345 25,975 240 70
Separated 3,685 3,605 45 5
Divorced 5,620 5,460 105 10
Widowed 4,990 4,465 85 15
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 125,645 121,695 1,630 330
English only 116,850 116,850 0 0
French only 60 0 55 0
English and French 6,705 4,800 1,570 330
Neither English nor French 2,030 45 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 125,640 121,700 1,630 330
Single responses 123,715 119,880 1,595 250
English 100,075 100,070 5 0
French 1,700 140 1,560 0
Non-official languages 21,940 19,665 30 250
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 21,800 19,535 35 255
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 45 40 0 0
Amharic 35 35 0 0
Arabic 570 495 5 30
Armenian 220 205 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5
Bengali 55 55 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 30 35 0 0
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 255 220 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 450 390 0 5
Creoles 10 10 5 0
Croatian 285 280 0 5
Czech 150 150 0 5
Danish 35 35 0 0
Dutch 510 510 0 0
Estonian 30 25 0 0
Finnish 55 50 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,010 1,005 0 5
Greek 205 200 0 0
Gujarati 980 830 0 10
Hakka 0 0 5 0
Hebrew 5 10 0 0
Hindi 205 200 0 0
Hungarian 450 430 0 5
Ilocano 30 30 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 805 760 0 15
Japanese 90 65 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0
Korean 130 120 0 0
Kurdish 25 20 0 0
Lao 270 245 0 0
Latvian 15 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 5
Macedonian 95 85 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 0
Malayalam 70 70 0 0
Maltese 40 35 0 0
Mandarin 215 180 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,430 1,240 0 10
Pashto 585 525 0 10
Persian (Farsi) 175 160 0 5
Polish 965 920 5 10
Portuguese 6,175 5,195 5 20
Romanian 310 270 0 25
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 160 145 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Serbian 140 130 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slovak 80 85 0 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0
Somali 30 30 0 0
Spanish 1,310 1,180 5 30
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 450 445 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 155 140 0 5
Telugu 30 25 0 0
Thai 45 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 55 55 0 0
Ukrainian 185 175 0 0
Urdu 1,025 950 0 10
Vietnamese 705 625 0 5
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 135 130 0 0
Multiple responses 1,930 1,815 35 75
English and French 265 200 10 55
English and non-official language 1,585 1,580 0 0
French and non-official language 40 15 25 0
English, French and non-official language 40 20 0 20
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 125,640 121,695 1,630 335
Single responses 121,755 117,995 1,535 245
English 110,780 109,665 1,115 0
French 435 30 405 0
Non-official languages 10,535 8,300 15 240
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 10,490 8,260 15 240
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 25 20 0 0
Amharic 20 20 0 0
Arabic 305 235 5 30
Armenian 115 100 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 25 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 155 115 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 275 215 0 5
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 105 105 0 5
Czech 45 40 0 5
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 15 15 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 80 75 0 5
Greek 75 65 0 0
Gujarati 705 555 0 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 105 95 0 0
Hungarian 135 120 0 5
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 235 190 0 15
Japanese 55 30 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 90 85 0 0
Kurdish 20 15 0 0
Lao 135 115 0 5
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 45 40 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 45 45 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 155 115 0 0
Marathi 20 15 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) 945 765 0 10
Pashto 420 360 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 95 75 0 5
Polish 405 370 0 10
Portuguese 2,825 1,850 5 20
Romanian 150 110 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 100 85 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Serbian 75 70 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 20 25 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 20 15 0 0
Spanish 670 535 5 30
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 155 150 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 85 70 0 5
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 20 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 0
Ukrainian 90 80 0 0
Urdu 690 615 0 5
Vietnamese 510 425 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 45 45 0 0
Multiple responses 3,885 3,705 95 85
English and French 170 35 75 60
English and non-official language 3,645 3,640 5 0
French and non-official language 20 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 55 20 5 30
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 125,640 121,700 1,630 335
None 112,605 109,730 855 160
Single responses 12,825 11,780 765 160
English 4,210 3,720 260 135
French 1,245 760 480 5
Non-official languages 7,375 7,295 25 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 7,290 7,205 25 15
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 15 15 0 0
Arabic 240 225 5 5
Armenian 75 70 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 80 80 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 120 110 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 120 120 0 5
Czech 55 55 0 0
Danish 15 10 0 0
Dutch 150 150 0 0
Estonian 15 10 0 0
Finnish 20 25 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 400 395 0 0
Greek 95 100 0 0
Gujarati 185 185 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0
Hindi 140 130 0 0
Hungarian 140 140 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 305 305 0 5
Japanese 35 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 90 85 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 20 20 0 0
Malay 15 10 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0
Maltese 15 10 0 0
Mandarin 50 50 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 320 315 0 5
Pashto 85 80 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 40 0 0
Polish 300 295 0 0
Portuguese 2,365 2,360 0 0
Romanian 110 110 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 80 70 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 35 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0
Spanish 540 530 5 0
Swahili 5 10 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 150 150 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 55 55 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 0
Ukrainian 45 40 0 0
Urdu 305 295 0 0
Vietnamese 140 135 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 85 80 0 0
Multiple responses 215 190 10 10
English and French 15 5 0 10
English and non-official language 75 65 5 0
French and non-official language 125 120 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 125,645 121,695 1,625 330
English 121,700 121,700 0 0
French 1,630 0 1,630 0
English and French 330 0 0 330
Neither English nor French 1,985 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,795 0 1,630 165
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.4 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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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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