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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 AlgomaFootnote 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 114,350 106,825 6,970 165
0 to 4 years 5,210 5,000 140 25
5 to 9 years 5,235 5,060 150 20
10 to 14 years 5,845 5,635 200 10
15 to 19 years 7,145 6,865 265 15
20 to 24 years 6,650 6,420 220 10
25 to 29 years 5,790 5,560 230 10
30 to 34 years 5,665 5,385 275 10
35 to 39 years 5,815 5,495 315 5
40 to 44 years 6,770 6,325 440 5
45 to 49 years 8,865 8,215 635 15
50 to 54 years 10,230 9,455 760 10
55 to 59 years 9,510 8,745 755 0
60 to 64 years 8,850 8,125 705 10
65 to 69 years 6,995 6,335 635 10
70 to 74 years 5,845 5,305 505 5
75 to 79 years 4,615 4,125 405 10
80 to 84 years 3,260 2,925 235 10
85 years and over 2,055 1,875 105 5
Median ageFootnote 3 46.8 46.2 54.1 33.7
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 98,060 91,140 6,475 115
Married or living with a common-law partner 57,745 53,250 4,275 50
Married (and not separated) 47,995 44,350 3,430 45
Living common law 9,750 8,895 840 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 40,315 37,890 2,200 65
Single (never legally married) 23,715 22,680 980 30
Separated 3,310 3,080 225 5
Divorced 6,325 5,860 445 10
Widowed 6,960 6,265 545 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 114,345 106,825 6,965 165
English only 99,445 99,445 0 0
French only 510 0 510 0
English and French 13,990 7,365 6,455 165
Neither English nor French 405 15 0 5
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 114,350 106,825 6,965 165
Single responses 113,160 105,770 6,930 75
English 96,470 96,465 5 0
French 7,405 500 6,910 0
Non-official languages 9,280 8,805 20 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 450 445 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 425 420 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 8,770 8,300 20 70
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 60 55 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 40 40 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 30 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 140 125 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 170 170 0 0
Czech 50 45 0 0
Danish 45 45 0 0
Dutch 270 260 0 0
Estonian 105 105 0 0
Finnish 785 770 0 0
Flemish 25 25 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,215 1,170 0 5
Greek 45 50 0 0
Gujarati 50 45 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0
Hungarian 130 125 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 3,810 3,535 5 15
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 25 30 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 50 50 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 20 0 0
Polish 430 420 0 0
Portuguese 200 190 0 0
Romanian 25 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 5 0
Russian 40 35 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 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0
Slovenian 40 35 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 240 210 0 30
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 45 45 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0
Ukrainian 270 265 5 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 15 20 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 60 50 0 5
Multiple responses 1,185 1,055 35 90
English and French 605 490 25 90
English and non-official language 535 535 0 0
French and non-official language 40 30 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 114,345 106,830 6,965 170
Single responses 113,055 105,880 6,725 60
English 107,220 103,380 3,840 0
French 2,980 100 2,880 0
Non-official languages 2,850 2,400 5 60
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 140 135 5 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 135 130 5 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 2,690 2,245 0 60
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 25 20 0 0
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 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 65 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 40 40 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 25 20 0 0
Estonian 15 20 0 0
Finnish 180 170 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 360 315 0 5
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 30 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 35 30 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,280 1,010 0 20
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 15 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) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 120 105 0 0
Portuguese 80 70 0 5
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 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 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 120 90 0 25
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 10 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 25 20 0 5
Multiple responses 1,295 950 245 105
English and French 390 60 230 95
English and non-official language 880 880 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 114,345 106,830 6,965 165
None 104,765 100,210 4,060 130
Single responses 9,470 6,515 2,895 30
English 2,545 1,200 1,295 25
French 3,330 1,735 1,590 5
Non-official languages 3,600 3,590 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 515 515 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 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 490 485 0 5
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 3,055 3,045 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 35 30 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 35 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 70 70 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 10 15 0 0
Dutch 65 70 0 0
Estonian 30 30 0 0
Finnish 250 250 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 305 305 0 0
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 45 45 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,480 1,470 5 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 140 140 0 0
Portuguese 80 80 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 5 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. 25 30 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 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 120 115 5 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 15 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 55 50 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 0 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 30 30 0 0
Multiple responses 110 100 10 5
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 10 5 5 0
French and non-official language 95 90 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 114,345 106,830 6,970 170
English 106,830 106,825 0 0
French 6,965 0 6,965 0
English and French 165 0 0 165
Neither English nor French 385 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 7,050 0 6,965 85
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 6.2 0.0 99.9 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.

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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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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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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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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 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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