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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 Fraser Valley
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 273,480 261,880 2,565 540
0 to 4 years 17,140 15,895 30 15
5 to 9 years 16,995 16,740 45 30
10 to 14 years 17,710 17,490 55 115
15 to 19 years 19,480 19,235 75 125
20 to 24 years 17,180 16,900 80 25
25 to 29 years 17,005 16,415 90 20
30 to 34 years 16,475 15,900 100 20
35 to 39 years 16,940 16,340 135 25
40 to 44 years 18,515 17,960 185 25
45 to 49 years 20,375 19,740 255 35
50 to 54 years 20,205 19,395 280 20
55 to 59 years 17,815 16,745 280 20
60 to 64 years 16,350 15,085 245 15
65 to 69 years 12,710 11,640 220 20
70 to 74 years 9,910 9,065 170 15
75 to 79 years 7,870 7,245 145 5
80 to 84 years 5,935 5,530 115 10
85 years and over 4,870 4,570 70 0
Median ageFootnote 2 39.4 38.8 54.5 19.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 221,630 211,760 2,440 380
Married or living with a common-law partner 134,635 127,425 1,560 175
Married (and not separated) 117,685 110,825 1,275 165
Living common law 16,945 16,600 285 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 86,995 84,335 880 200
Single (never legally married) 54,820 54,010 360 180
Separated 6,605 6,345 100 5
Divorced 13,545 13,145 215 5
Widowed 12,020 10,835 215 15
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 273,480 261,885 2,565 540
English only 252,240 252,240 0 0
French only 75 0 75 0
English and French 12,550 9,520 2,490 540
Neither English nor French 8,615 125 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 273,480 261,885 2,570 540
Single responses 269,690 258,220 2,520 460
English 209,125 209,120 5 0
French 2,910 440 2,465 0
Non-official languages 57,655 48,655 45 460
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 50 50 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 40 40 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 57,160 48,175 40 465
African languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 0
Afrikaans 260 250 0 10
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 125 110 0 0
Amharic 30 30 0 0
Arabic 375 350 5 5
Armenian 30 25 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0
Bengali 20 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 75 70 0 0
Bosnian 60 55 0 0
Bulgarian 35 35 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 405 335 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 890 740 0 10
Creoles 45 35 0 10
Croatian 115 115 5 0
Czech 215 210 5 0
Danish 355 355 0 0
Dutch 3,795 3,760 5 20
Estonian 30 25 0 0
Finnish 270 265 0 0
Flemish 25 20 0 5
Fukien 15 10 0 0
German 9,545 9,405 5 40
Greek 155 145 0 5
Gujarati 55 50 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 20 20 0 0
Hindi 605 570 0 10
Hungarian 580 570 0 5
Ilocano 50 50 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 450 445 0 5
Japanese 340 320 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 20 0 0
Korean 1,880 1,615 5 20
Kurdish 15 10 0 0
Lao 250 225 0 5
Latvian 35 35 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 45 45 0 0
Malayalam 60 60 0 0
Maltese 15 20 0 0
Mandarin 605 515 0 5
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 120 120 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 27,390 19,875 10 175
Pashto 20 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 320 295 0 5
Polish 705 670 0 20
Portuguese 325 310 0 5
Romanian 555 500 0 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 580 560 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 85 85 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 5
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 20 0 0
Sindhi 20 15 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 35 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Slovak 110 110 0 5
Slovenian 40 40 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 1,810 1,665 0 45
Swahili 40 35 5 0
Swedish 115 120 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 950 940 0 0
Taiwanese 20 15 0 0
Tamil 25 25 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 70 70 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 45 40 0 5
Ukrainian 575 565 0 5
Urdu 215 205 0 5
Vietnamese 820 685 5 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 445 430 5 0
Multiple responses 3,790 3,660 50 80
English and French 465 400 10 60
English and non-official language 3,130 3,125 0 0
French and non-official language 135 95 35 0
English, French and non-official language 60 40 0 20
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 273,480 261,880 2,565 540
Single responses 266,160 254,810 2,425 435
English 233,625 231,685 1,935 0
French 535 75 455 0
Non-official languages 32,005 23,050 30 435
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 10 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 10 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 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 31,925 22,980 30 435
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 140 135 0 10
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 65 50 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 180 155 5 10
Armenian 15 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0
Bosnian 35 30 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 235 160 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 555 415 0 10
Creoles 15 5 5 5
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 45 50 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 405 370 0 20
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 50 40 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,525 1,400 0 40
Greek 45 40 0 5
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 300 280 0 5
Hungarian 125 120 0 5
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 60 55 0 0
Japanese 140 120 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 0
Korean 1,600 1,340 0 20
Kurdish 20 15 0 0
Lao 115 95 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 10 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 440 340 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 22,290 14,795 5 165
Pashto 15 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 200 180 0 5
Polish 220 195 0 15
Portuguese 60 50 0 5
Romanian 305 240 0 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 235 205 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 25 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 70 50 0 0
Sindhi 5 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 35 30 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 885 735 5 55
Swahili 10 5 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 305 295 0 5
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 5
Ukrainian 55 50 0 0
Urdu 105 95 0 5
Vietnamese 610 480 0 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 70 60 0 0
Multiple responses 7,320 7,075 145 105
English and French 235 60 120 50
English and non-official language 6,965 6,965 0 0
French and non-official language 40 25 15 0
English, French and non-official language 80 25 5 50
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 273,475 261,885 2,565 540
None 248,220 238,195 1,615 265
Single responses 24,870 23,345 940 250
English 10,145 9,345 280 235
French 1,725 1,100 620 5
Non-official languages 12,995 12,900 35 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 12,620 12,525 35 10
African languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Afrikaans 125 125 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 20 25 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 100 95 0 0
Armenian 10 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 20 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 105 105 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 205 200 0 0
Creoles 25 20 5 0
Croatian 45 40 5 0
Czech 95 95 0 0
Danish 115 115 0 0
Dutch 1,400 1,395 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 100 100 0 0
Flemish 5 5 5 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 2,425 2,420 5 0
Greek 105 105 0 0
Gujarati 25 25 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 375 355 0 0
Hungarian 150 155 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 160 160 0 0
Japanese 180 180 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0
Korean 220 220 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 90 80 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 35 30 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 145 145 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Norwegian 35 35 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 3,240 3,240 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 75 75 0 0
Polish 200 200 0 0
Portuguese 180 180 0 0
Romanian 140 135 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 210 205 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 35 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 70 65 5 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 40 35 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 920 915 5 0
Swahili 40 40 5 0
Swedish 35 30 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 370 370 0 0
Taiwanese 20 20 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 40 40 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0
Ukrainian 120 120 0 5
Urdu 75 75 0 0
Vietnamese 200 200 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 360 355 5 0
Multiple responses 385 345 15 30
English and French 30 5 0 20
English and non-official language 125 110 5 10
French and non-official language 230 220 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 273,475 261,885 2,570 540
English 261,880 261,880 0 0
French 2,570 0 2,570 0
English and French 540 0 0 540
Neither English nor French 8,485 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,840 0 2,565 270
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.0 0.0 99.8 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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Footnote 6

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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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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