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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 Brandon, 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 45,335 43,555 545 125
0 to 4 years 3,020 2,800 15 5
5 to 9 years 2,780 2,630 35 15
10 to 14 years 2,570 2,485 15 15
15 to 19 years 2,880 2,835 10 10
20 to 24 years 3,975 3,905 35 5
25 to 29 years 3,750 3,590 45 15
30 to 34 years 3,450 3,210 40 40
35 to 39 years 3,210 2,945 40 15
40 to 44 years 2,650 2,500 25 5
45 to 49 years 3,040 2,950 40 0
50 to 54 years 3,005 2,935 40 5
55 to 59 years 2,585 2,540 40 0
60 to 64 years 2,300 2,255 40 0
65 to 69 years 1,630 1,595 35 5
70 to 74 years 1,360 1,325 30 0
75 to 79 years 1,155 1,125 25 0
80 to 84 years 995 970 20 0
85 years and over 975 965 10 0
Median ageFootnote 2 35.4 35.6 46.6 30.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 36,965 35,640 480 90
Married or living with a common-law partner 20,955 19,955 320 65
Married (and not separated) 17,180 16,295 280 65
Living common law 3,775 3,655 45 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 16,010 15,685 160 25
Single (never legally married) 10,455 10,265 85 20
Separated 985 945 15 0
Divorced 2,385 2,340 25 5
Widowed 2,190 2,140 30 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 45,335 43,560 545 125
English only 41,755 41,755 0 0
French only 35 0 35 0
English and French 2,345 1,715 510 125
Neither English nor French 1,200 90 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 45,335 43,555 545 125
Single responses 44,830 43,085 525 110
English 37,675 37,670 5 0
French 600 115 485 0
Non-official languages 6,555 5,300 35 110
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 205 205 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 80 80 0 0
Dene 10 10 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 100 95 0 5
Oji-Cree 15 15 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 6,250 5,000 35 110
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 75 70 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 145 135 0 5
Arabic 80 65 5 10
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 60 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 960 550 0 0
Creoles 130 35 30 60
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 10 15 0 0
Dutch 80 80 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 10 15 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 685 675 0 5
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 100 85 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 5
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 30 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 130 120 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 195 130 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 65 60 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 100 100 0 0
Portuguese 30 25 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 125 110 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 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 1,920 1,420 5 10
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 175 175 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 15 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 685 645 0 0
Urdu 45 45 0 5
Vietnamese 40 35 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 100 90 0 0
Multiple responses 510 475 20 15
English and French 70 60 5 5
English and non-official language 380 380 0 0
French and non-official language 35 20 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 15 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 45,335 43,560 540 125
Single responses 44,515 42,795 510 100
English 40,220 39,850 375 0
French 135 15 115 0
Non-official languages 4,155 2,930 20 100
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 40 35 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 25 20 0 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 4,085 2,860 15 100
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 40 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 105 90 0 5
Arabic 40 25 0 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 960 540 0 5
Creoles 80 5 15 55
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 100 90 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 75 60 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 110 100 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 185 125 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 30 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 90 75 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 1,720 1,225 0 15
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 230 195 0 0
Urdu 25 20 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 35 30 0 5
Multiple responses 820 765 30 20
English and French 40 15 10 15
English and non-official language 735 735 0 0
French and non-official language 25 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 5 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 45,335 43,560 540 125
None 42,130 40,750 350 65
Single responses 3,125 2,755 185 45
English 1,430 1,225 55 25
French 360 240 115 5
Non-official languages 1,340 1,290 15 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 170 170 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 75 75 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 70 75 0 0
Oji-Cree 15 15 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,110 1,060 15 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 30 25 0 0
Arabic 25 25 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 50 0 0
Creoles 40 25 10 5
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 20 25 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 180 175 5 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 10 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 25 15 0 5
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 10 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 35 30 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 65 60 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 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 190 185 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 140 140 0 0
Urdu 20 15 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 60 60 0 0
Multiple responses 80 50 5 15
English and French 20 0 5 15
English and non-official language 15 5 5 5
French and non-official language 50 45 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 45,335 43,560 540 125
English 43,555 43,560 0 0
French 540 0 540 0
English and French 125 0 0 125
Neither English nor French 1,110 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 605 0 540 60
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.3 0.0 100.0 48.0

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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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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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