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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 Thunder Bay, 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 106,695 103,755 2,305 130
0 to 4 years 5,100 5,015 45 10
5 to 9 years 5,125 5,055 55 10
10 to 14 years 5,735 5,655 60 15
15 to 19 years 6,880 6,785 75 20
20 to 24 years 7,315 7,205 100 10
25 to 29 years 6,600 6,475 115 5
30 to 34 years 6,080 5,950 125 0
35 to 39 years 6,415 6,255 140 10
40 to 44 years 7,045 6,860 165 10
45 to 49 years 8,235 7,995 220 10
50 to 54 years 8,940 8,660 255 5
55 to 59 years 8,080 7,840 225 5
60 to 64 years 7,205 6,980 195 0
65 to 69 years 5,100 4,890 175 5
70 to 74 years 4,175 3,985 125 0
75 to 79 years 3,425 3,240 95 5
80 to 84 years 2,770 2,610 70 0
85 years and over 2,475 2,315 55 5
Median ageFootnote 3 42.9 42.5 51.1 25.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 90,735 88,035 2,145 90
Married or living with a common-law partner 49,285 47,725 1,270 40
Married (and not separated) 40,885 39,620 995 35
Living common law 8,400 8,105 285 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 41,450 40,310 870 50
Single (never legally married) 25,800 25,335 400 35
Separated 3,365 3,255 100 5
Divorced 5,740 5,540 185 5
Widowed 6,540 6,180 185 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 106,695 103,760 2,300 130
English only 98,005 98,010 0 0
French only 120 0 120 0
English and French 8,030 5,715 2,185 125
Neither English nor French 540 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 106,695 103,755 2,305 130
Single responses 105,365 102,520 2,265 75
English 90,140 90,140 0 0
French 2,515 265 2,250 0
Non-official languages 12,705 12,115 15 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 1,145 1,120 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 85 85 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 700 685 0 0
Oji-Cree 350 340 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 11,455 10,910 10 70
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 15 15 0 0
Arabic 130 120 0 5
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5 0
Bengali 35 30 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 25 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 30 30 0 0
Cantonese 75 65 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 265 235 0 5
Creoles 25 25 0 0
Croatian 320 310 0 0
Czech 45 45 0 0
Danish 50 50 0 0
Dutch 250 245 0 0
Estonian 45 45 0 0
Finnish 2,005 1,930 0 5
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 715 710 0 0
Greek 145 140 0 0
Gujarati 25 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 45 45 0 0
Hungarian 140 135 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 3,070 2,885 0 10
Japanese 35 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 20 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 75 65 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 35 30 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 40 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 90 80 0 0
Polish 945 915 5 0
Portuguese 380 355 0 0
Romanian 55 45 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 90 85 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 45 40 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 125 100 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Slovak 195 195 0 0
Slovenian 100 100 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 290 265 5 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 160 160 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 825 815 0 0
Urdu 70 60 0 0
Vietnamese 125 115 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 105 85 0 5
Multiple responses 1,330 1,235 35 55
English and French 305 235 10 55
English and non-official language 950 950 0 0
French and non-official language 65 40 25 0
English, French and non-official language 15 15 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 106,695 103,755 2,300 130
Single responses 104,995 102,230 2,200 60
English 100,545 99,060 1,485 0
French 775 60 710 0
Non-official languages 3,675 3,110 5 60
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 295 270 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 150 140 0 5
Oji-Cree 125 110 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 3,315 2,795 0 55
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 35 35 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 20 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 5
Burmese 30 25 0 0
Cantonese 35 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 145 120 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 90 85 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 520 450 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 65 55 0 5
Greek 50 40 0 0
Gujarati 25 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 25 20 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 985 800 0 5
Japanese 0 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 30 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 20 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 25 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 50 45 0 0
Polish 270 240 0 0
Portuguese 125 100 0 0
Romanian 30 20 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 120 95 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 30 25 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 100 80 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 95 85 0 0
Urdu 40 35 0 0
Vietnamese 60 60 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 70 45 0 5
Multiple responses 1,700 1,520 105 70
English and French 200 50 90 60
English and non-official language 1,460 1,455 10 0
French and non-official language 15 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 5 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 106,695 103,755 2,305 125
None 98,435 96,615 1,285 80
Single responses 8,110 7,010 1,005 45
English 1,920 1,470 380 30
French 1,580 980 600 0
Non-official languages 4,610 4,560 30 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 775 775 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 60 60 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 480 475 5 5
Oji-Cree 235 240 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 3,795 3,750 30 10
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 80 70 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 25 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 60 0 0
Creoles 20 20 0 0
Croatian 90 85 0 0
Czech 10 15 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 70 70 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 595 595 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 265 255 5 0
Greek 75 75 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,135 1,125 5 5
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 20 0 0
Polish 300 300 0 0
Portuguese 120 120 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 5 0 0
Russian 25 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0
Slovenian 30 35 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 180 170 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 65 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 185 185 0 0
Urdu 20 15 0 0
Vietnamese 55 50 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 40 40 0 0
Multiple responses 145 130 5 10
English and French 10 5 0 5
English and non-official language 30 20 5 0
French and non-official language 110 110 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 106,695 103,755 2,305 130
English 103,755 103,755 0 0
French 2,305 0 2,305 0
English and French 130 0 0 130
Neither English nor French 510 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 2,365 0 2,305 65
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 2.2 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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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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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