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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. 15Footnote 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 35,810 34,185 1,400 100
0 to 4 years 1,945 1,845 55 15
5 to 9 years 1,665 1,610 40 10
10 to 14 years 1,745 1,705 35 5
15 to 19 years 2,080 2,025 45 5
20 to 24 years 3,125 2,985 120 10
25 to 29 years 3,570 3,365 195 10
30 to 34 years 3,065 2,830 225 5
35 to 39 years 2,760 2,600 145 5
40 to 44 years 2,560 2,420 125 10
45 to 49 years 2,790 2,650 120 10
50 to 54 years 2,695 2,595 85 5
55 to 59 years 2,435 2,360 65 5
60 to 64 years 1,915 1,835 70 5
65 to 69 years 1,205 1,180 25 5
70 to 74 years 780 745 20 0
75 to 79 years 635 615 15 0
80 to 84 years 490 470 10 0
85 years and over 355 345 5 0
Median ageFootnote 3 36.3 36.4 34.7 28.3
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 30,450 29,025 1,270 75
Married or living with a common-law partner 16,485 15,720 680 40
Married (and not separated) 12,325 11,890 370 30
Living common law 4,160 3,830 310 15
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 13,965 13,305 590 30
Single (never legally married) 10,625 10,080 500 30
Separated 635 605 25 0
Divorced 1,625 1,580 40 0
Widowed 1,080 1,045 20 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 35,805 34,180 1,400 100
English only 31,025 31,025 0 0
French only 50 0 45 0
English and French 4,605 3,150 1,360 100
Neither English nor French 130 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 35,805 34,185 1,400 95
Single responses 35,200 33,615 1,385 75
English 26,935 26,940 0 0
French 1,445 80 1,365 0
Non-official languages 6,810 6,595 20 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 2,235 2,225 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 25 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 2,200 2,190 0 5
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 4,370 4,165 20 70
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 35 30 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0
Amharic 20 15 0 0
Arabic 25 25 5 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 35 35 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 45 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 90 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 100 90 0 5
Danish 25 20 0 0
Dutch 200 190 0 10
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 10 5 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 765 735 5 25
Greek 55 60 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 55 55 0 0
Hungarian 55 55 5 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Italian 140 140 0 5
Japanese 685 615 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 205 190 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 30 0 0
Marathi 20 15 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 155 145 0 0
Portuguese 35 30 0 0
Romanian 15 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 65 60 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slovak 40 35 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 285 265 5 10
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 25 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 785 775 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 10 15 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 75 75 5 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 205 205 0 0
Multiple responses 605 570 15 25
English and French 145 115 5 25
English and non-official language 425 425 0 0
French and non-official language 35 25 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 35,805 34,185 1,405 100
Single responses 34,980 33,470 1,320 70
English 30,620 29,935 680 0
French 660 30 630 0
Non-official languages 3,700 3,500 5 70
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 1,640 1,630 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 1,635 1,625 0 5
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 1,955 1,775 5 65
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 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 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 40 0 0
Creoles 15 10 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 45 40 0 5
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 35 25 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 190 160 0 30
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 5
Japanese 480 415 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 135 120 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 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) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 50 45 0 0
Portuguese 10 5 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 5
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. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 145 125 5 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 525 520 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 10 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 0 5 0 0
Vietnamese 15 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 100 95 0 5
Multiple responses 825 715 80 30
English and French 110 20 70 25
English and non-official language 690 690 5 0
French and non-official language 10 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 5 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 35,810 34,185 1,400 95
None 30,150 29,365 625 50
Single responses 5,555 4,730 765 40
English 2,650 2,225 375 40
French 845 475 370 0
Non-official languages 2,055 2,030 20 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 500 500 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 10 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 490 490 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,510 1,490 20 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 5 0 5 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 15 15 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 35 35 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 65 65 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 310 305 5 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 60 60 0 0
Japanese 175 175 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 50 50 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 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 5 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) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 5 0 0
Polish 50 50 0 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 20 5 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. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 165 160 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 230 230 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 45 45 0 0
Multiple responses 110 90 15 5
English and French 5 0 5 5
English and non-official language 10 5 10 0
French and non-official language 90 85 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 35,805 34,185 1,400 100
English 34,185 34,185 0 0
French 1,400 0 1,400 0
English and French 100 0 0 95
Neither English nor French 120 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,455 0 1,405 50
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 4.1 0.0 100.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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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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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