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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 Division No. 1
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 30,890 30,235 575 20
0 to 4 years 2,045 2,030 5 0
5 to 9 years 1,910 1,895 10 5
10 to 14 years 2,010 2,000 10 0
15 to 19 years 2,135 2,110 15 0
20 to 24 years 2,110 2,085 20 5
25 to 29 years 2,080 2,060 10 0
30 to 34 years 2,130 2,110 20 0
35 to 39 years 1,870 1,840 20 0
40 to 44 years 1,865 1,825 30 0
45 to 49 years 2,320 2,265 50 0
50 to 54 years 2,375 2,325 45 0
55 to 59 years 2,065 2,005 55 0
60 to 64 years 1,620 1,555 60 0
65 to 69 years 1,250 1,200 50 0
70 to 74 years 930 885 45 0
75 to 79 years 850 800 45 5
80 to 84 years 740 705 35 0
85 years and over 570 530 40 0
Median ageFootnote 2 37.6 37.1 58.8 21.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 24,915 24,310 545 15
Married or living with a common-law partner 16,115 15,695 385 5
Married (and not separated) 13,610 13,210 365 5
Living common law 2,505 2,485 20 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 8,800 8,620 160 10
Single (never legally married) 5,970 5,880 80 10
Separated 495 485 10 5
Divorced 950 935 15 0
Widowed 1,385 1,325 55 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 30,890 30,235 575 15
English only 29,640 29,640 0 0
French only 10 0 10 0
English and French 1,175 590 570 15
Neither English nor French 60 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 30,890 30,235 575 15
Single responses 30,695 30,055 570 5
English 28,555 28,550 5 0
French 710 140 565 0
Non-official languages 1,430 1,360 5 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 65 70 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 55 55 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 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 1,325 1,260 0 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 15 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 35 35 0 0
Dutch 35 35 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 15 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 360 350 0 5
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0
Hungarian 35 40 0 0
Ilocano 5 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 55 50 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 45 0 0
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. 0 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 35 35 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 205 210 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 135 130 0 0
Urdu 20 15 0 5
Vietnamese 20 15 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 40 40 0 0
Multiple responses 200 180 10 10
English and French 55 40 5 10
English and non-official language 135 135 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 30,890 30,235 580 15
Single responses 30,675 30,050 560 5
English 29,950 29,535 410 0
French 175 25 150 0
Non-official languages 555 490 0 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 5 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 10 540 475 0 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 0 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 10 10 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. 30 10 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 95 85 0 5
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 45 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 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 10 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 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) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 5 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 25 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. 5 5 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 10 10 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 125 125 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 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 45 35 0 0
Urdu 10 15 0 0
Vietnamese 10 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 10 0 0
Multiple responses 210 185 15 15
English and French 25 5 15 10
English and non-official language 180 180 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 30,890 30,235 580 15
None 29,850 29,440 365 10
Single responses 1,015 775 215 5
English 360 250 95 5
French 245 125 115 0
Non-official languages 410 400 0 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 30 30 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 25 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 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 360 350 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 5 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 0 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 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 15 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 75 70 0 0
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 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 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 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) 10 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 5 10 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 20 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 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 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 5 0 0 0
Spanish 30 30 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 65 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 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 15 10 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 20 20 0 0
Multiple responses 20 20 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 10 5 0 0
French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 30,890 30,235 575 15
English 30,235 30,235 0 0
French 575 0 575 0
English and French 15 0 0 15
Neither English nor French 60 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 585 0 580 5
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.9 0.0 100.0 33.3

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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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Footnote 11

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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