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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 KenoraFootnote 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 57,110 55,715 1,010 45
0 to 4 years 4,015 3,985 10 0
5 to 9 years 3,730 3,710 10 5
10 to 14 years 4,015 3,985 25 5
15 to 19 years 4,395 4,365 25 0
20 to 24 years 3,690 3,675 15 0
25 to 29 years 3,260 3,220 30 0
30 to 34 years 3,270 3,215 55 0
35 to 39 years 3,320 3,255 55 0
40 to 44 years 3,620 3,540 70 5
45 to 49 years 4,410 4,310 95 5
50 to 54 years 4,635 4,525 95 0
55 to 59 years 3,950 3,815 110 0
60 to 64 years 3,550 3,405 115 0
65 to 69 years 2,325 2,175 100 5
70 to 74 years 1,890 1,735 90 0
75 to 79 years 1,415 1,295 65 5
80 to 84 years 870 795 30 5
85 years and over 745 695 20 0
Median ageFootnote 3 38.3 37.6 55.8 43.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 45,350 44,035 960 40
Married or living with a common-law partner 26,850 25,980 715 30
Married (and not separated) 20,395 19,670 580 20
Living common law 6,455 6,315 135 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 18,500 18,055 245 10
Single (never legally married) 12,500 12,350 90 5
Separated 1,385 1,345 35 0
Divorced 2,105 2,050 45 5
Widowed 2,515 2,310 80 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 57,110 55,715 1,005 45
English only 53,825 53,825 0 0
French only 25 0 30 0
English and French 2,905 1,875 985 45
Neither English nor French 355 15 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 57,110 55,715 1,010 50
Single responses 56,670 55,315 1,000 15
English 46,300 46,300 0 0
French 1,195 205 995 0
Non-official languages 9,175 8,810 5 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 7,225 6,920 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,620 1,530 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 3,005 2,920 5 5
Oji-Cree 2,600 2,465 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 1,905 1,845 5 15
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 5 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 30 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 60 60 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 50 50 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 575 570 0 5
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 30 30 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 195 185 0 5
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 130 130 0 0
Portuguese 75 70 5 0
Romanian 5 5 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 45 45 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 135 130 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 280 275 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 45 40 0 0
Multiple responses 440 405 5 30
English and French 95 70 0 30
English and non-official language 300 300 0 0
French and non-official language 35 30 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 57,110 55,715 1,010 45
Single responses 56,700 55,365 980 10
English 52,790 52,030 760 0
French 250 30 225 0
Non-official languages 3,655 3,305 0 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 3,335 3,035 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,180 1,100 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 1,235 1,155 5 0
Oji-Cree 920 780 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 310 265 0 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 10 5 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 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 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 50 45 0 5
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 30 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 25 20 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 0 0 0 0
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. 15 10 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 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 10 10 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 45 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 20 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 10 5 0 0
Multiple responses 410 350 30 30
English and French 65 15 25 30
English and non-official language 335 330 5 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 57,110 55,715 1,010 45
None 49,490 48,515 610 40
Single responses 7,585 7,165 400 10
English 2,550 2,415 125 5
French 555 285 270 0
Non-official languages 4,480 4,470 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 3,805 3,805 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 520 520 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 1,740 1,740 0 0
Oji-Cree 1,545 1,540 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 645 640 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 5 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 20 20 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 170 165 5 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 80 85 0 0
Japanese 0 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 30 30 0 0
Romanian 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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 5 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 35 40 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 60 0 0
Urdu 5 10 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 30 30 0 0
Multiple responses 35 35 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 0 5 0 0
French and non-official language 30 30 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 57,110 55,715 1,010 45
English 55,715 55,715 0 0
French 1,005 0 1,010 0
English and French 45 0 0 45
Neither English nor French 340 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,030 0 1,005 25
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.8 0.0 99.5 55.6

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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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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