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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. 11
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 267,290 261,305 3,370 570
0 to 4 years 17,240 16,615 80 30
5 to 9 years 15,430 15,180 75 100
10 to 14 years 15,700 15,465 90 90
15 to 19 years 18,105 17,900 110 55
20 to 24 years 23,625 23,385 165 35
25 to 29 years 22,470 22,140 210 60
30 to 34 years 19,430 19,100 205 40
35 to 39 years 17,180 16,835 185 30
40 to 44 years 16,655 16,270 205 20
45 to 49 years 19,570 19,120 260 40
50 to 54 years 19,660 19,170 345 25
55 to 59 years 17,290 16,800 350 10
60 to 64 years 13,270 12,855 290 15
65 to 69 years 9,040 8,740 200 10
70 to 74 years 7,365 7,105 180 5
75 to 79 years 6,265 5,965 190 5
80 to 84 years 4,770 4,595 115 0
85 years and over 4,230 4,060 110 0
Median ageFootnote 2 35.5 35.2 51.5 21.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 218,920 214,045 3,120 355
Married or living with a common-law partner 124,465 121,275 2,020 185
Married (and not separated) 106,850 103,955 1,765 170
Living common law 17,620 17,320 260 15
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 94,455 92,770 1,100 170
Single (never legally married) 67,230 66,335 600 140
Separated 4,760 4,660 60 10
Divorced 12,230 11,970 200 10
Widowed 10,245 9,810 240 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 267,290 261,305 3,370 570
English only 249,575 249,580 0 0
French only 120 0 120 0
English and French 15,445 11,635 3,245 570
Neither English nor French 2,145 90 10 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 267,290 261,305 3,370 570
Single responses 263,375 257,585 3,255 495
English 221,980 221,970 10 0
French 3,805 625 3,180 0
Non-official languages 37,595 34,990 65 495
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 1,525 1,510 5 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,180 1,170 5 0
Dene 170 170 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 170 165 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 35,555 33,020 60 485
African languages, n.i.e. 195 190 0 0
Afrikaans 170 165 0 5
Akan (Twi) 40 35 0 0
Albanian 40 35 0 0
Amharic 90 80 0 0
Arabic 1,245 985 5 60
Armenian 10 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 85 75 0 5
Bengali 855 780 0 35
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 220 215 0 5
Bosnian 140 135 0 5
Bulgarian 25 20 0 5
Burmese 110 90 0 0
Cantonese 875 725 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,625 2,285 5 25
Creoles 35 30 0 5
Croatian 135 135 0 0
Czech 85 85 0 0
Danish 85 85 0 0
Dutch 470 465 0 10
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 55 55 0 5
Flemish 25 20 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 6,385 6,270 5 25
Greek 180 180 0 0
Gujarati 300 280 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 430 410 0 5
Hungarian 420 390 5 5
Ilocano 95 95 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 100 85 0 5
Italian 225 215 0 0
Japanese 140 135 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 60 0 0
Korean 380 340 0 5
Kurdish 45 40 0 0
Lao 140 130 0 5
Latvian 40 35 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 0
Malayalam 65 65 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 800 705 0 5
Marathi 45 45 5 0
Nepali 145 125 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 105 100 5 5
Norwegian 120 120 0 0
Oromo 100 75 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 875 785 0 5
Pashto 130 120 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 600 540 0 20
Polish 545 520 5 5
Portuguese 300 280 0 10
Romanian 320 275 5 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 10 0 10
Russian 865 800 0 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 15 15 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 470 355 0 10
Serbian 150 145 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 85 80 0 5
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 55 35 0 5
Sindhi 50 40 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 140 145 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 155 80 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 75 70 0 5
Slovak 25 25 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0
Somali 85 65 0 15
Spanish 1,460 1,330 5 45
Swahili 115 100 0 5
Swedish 40 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 3,900 3,820 5 20
Taiwanese 30 25 0 0
Tamil 145 140 0 0
Telugu 75 75 0 0
Thai 35 30 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 180 170 0 0
Turkish 95 85 5 0
Ukrainian 3,885 3,790 0 10
Urdu 1,855 1,700 5 45
Vietnamese 690 590 0 20
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 515 460 5 5
Multiple responses 3,910 3,720 115 75
English and French 515 440 15 60
English and non-official language 3,000 3,000 0 0
French and non-official language 335 240 95 0
English, French and non-official language 65 40 5 20
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 267,290 261,305 3,370 565
Single responses 261,235 255,515 3,225 450
English 243,095 240,795 2,300 0
French 1,010 130 885 0
Non-official languages 17,125 14,585 45 450
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 355 345 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 255 250 0 0
Dene 60 60 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 5
Ojibway 30 25 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 16,580 14,085 45 445
African languages, n.i.e. 120 115 0 0
Afrikaans 95 85 0 5
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0
Albanian 20 10 0 0
Amharic 50 45 0 0
Arabic 850 600 5 40
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5
Bengali 705 635 0 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 80 80 0 0
Bosnian 85 75 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 5
Burmese 90 70 0 0
Cantonese 480 335 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,825 1,495 5 25
Creoles 20 10 0 5
Croatian 35 35 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 35 30 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 20 25 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 1,020 900 0 25
Greek 50 50 0 0
Gujarati 175 155 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 225 200 5 0
Hungarian 125 95 0 5
Ilocano 40 45 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 65 50 0 10
Italian 35 30 0 0
Japanese 65 60 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 25 0 0
Korean 255 215 0 5
Kurdish 20 15 0 0
Lao 65 50 0 5
Latvian 25 25 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 15 10 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 620 520 0 5
Marathi 20 20 0 0
Nepali 110 90 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 55 35 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 530 450 0 5
Pashto 70 55 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 380 330 0 20
Polish 135 110 0 5
Portuguese 100 85 0 5
Romanian 175 135 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 5 0 5
Russian 485 420 0 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 370 265 0 10
Serbian 120 110 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 45 40 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 60 50 0 0
Sindhi 40 30 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 80 75 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 145 55 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 55 45 0 5
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 70 50 0 15
Spanish 740 610 10 40
Swahili 70 55 0 5
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,410 2,325 5 15
Taiwanese 15 10 0 0
Tamil 60 65 0 0
Telugu 40 40 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 90 80 0 0
Turkish 65 55 5 0
Ukrainian 635 530 0 15
Urdu 1,410 1,255 0 40
Vietnamese 485 385 5 25
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 195 150 0 5
Multiple responses 6,055 5,795 145 120
English and French 275 115 90 65
English and non-official language 5,595 5,585 5 0
French and non-official language 105 70 40 0
English, French and non-official language 75 20 10 50
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 267,290 261,305 3,370 570
None 244,480 240,465 2,055 245
Single responses 22,195 20,335 1,275 270
English 7,840 7,025 470 220
French 2,425 1,660 745 15
Non-official languages 11,925 11,645 55 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 1,140 1,135 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 950 945 0 0
Dene 100 100 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 90 85 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 10,510 10,240 55 35
African languages, n.i.e. 55 55 0 0
Afrikaans 65 65 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 25 25 0 0
Arabic 455 410 10 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 0
Bengali 100 90 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 35 30 0 0
Bosnian 40 35 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 30 30 0 0
Cantonese 300 290 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 535 525 0 0
Creoles 30 25 5 0
Croatian 50 50 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 35 35 0 0
Dutch 150 145 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 25 20 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,625 1,625 0 0
Greek 135 130 0 0
Gujarati 60 60 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 280 270 0 0
Hungarian 110 115 0 0
Ilocano 40 40 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Italian 100 95 0 0
Japanese 100 95 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0
Korean 75 75 0 0
Kurdish 20 20 0 0
Lao 30 30 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 10 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 175 170 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 145 140 0 5
Norwegian 35 30 0 0
Oromo 15 15 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 320 310 0 5
Pashto 25 20 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 155 145 0 0
Polish 145 145 0 0
Portuguese 125 125 5 0
Romanian 100 95 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 5 5 5
Russian 280 255 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 10 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 110 90 5 0
Serbian 30 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 70 65 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0
Spanish 775 765 10 0
Swahili 55 50 5 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 940 935 0 5
Taiwanese 15 10 0 0
Tamil 50 50 0 0
Telugu 35 35 0 0
Thai 20 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 55 50 0 0
Turkish 25 30 0 0
Ukrainian 1,340 1,325 0 5
Urdu 395 380 5 5
Vietnamese 180 165 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 275 260 0 0
Multiple responses 610 510 40 55
English and French 55 10 5 40
English and non-official language 255 210 20 15
French and non-official language 300 290 15 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 267,290 261,300 3,370 570
English 261,305 261,300 0 0
French 3,370 0 3,370 0
English and French 565 0 0 565
Neither English nor French 2,045 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 3,655 0 3,375 285
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.4 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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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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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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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