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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 New Westminster, CYFootnote 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 65,165 62,185 825 540
0 to 4 years 3,245 2,905 30 15
5 to 9 years 2,650 2,595 15 20
10 to 14 years 2,700 2,620 15 60
15 to 19 years 3,165 3,085 10 60
20 to 24 years 4,280 4,185 35 45
25 to 29 years 5,270 5,125 70 50
30 to 34 years 5,195 5,020 70 70
35 to 39 years 4,870 4,725 60 40
40 to 44 years 5,530 5,295 75 65
45 to 49 years 5,740 5,515 75 35
50 to 54 years 5,530 5,305 70 35
55 to 59 years 4,690 4,475 75 20
60 to 64 years 3,905 3,690 65 10
65 to 69 years 2,610 2,425 45 5
70 to 74 years 1,860 1,680 20 10
75 to 79 years 1,515 1,330 40 5
80 to 84 years 1,260 1,155 25 5
85 years and over 1,145 1,060 25 5
Median ageFootnote 3 41.0 40.8 46.8 32.3
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 56,565 54,075 775 450
Married or living with a common-law partner 29,775 28,230 395 255
Married (and not separated) 24,185 22,805 270 230
Living common law 5,585 5,420 130 20
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 26,795 25,850 375 200
Single (never legally married) 17,175 16,755 210 160
Separated 1,880 1,795 35 10
Divorced 4,905 4,750 75 30
Widowed 2,830 2,550 60 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 65,170 62,190 825 540
English only 58,320 58,320 0 0
French only 40 0 40 0
English and French 5,165 3,845 780 540
Neither English nor French 1,640 20 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 65,165 62,185 825 540
Single responses 63,420 60,525 775 500
English 41,210 41,205 5 0
French 850 105 745 0
Non-official languages 21,365 19,215 30 500
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 21,115 18,975 30 500
African languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 35 30 0 0
Albanian 75 70 0 0
Amharic 85 80 0 0
Arabic 495 400 10 45
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Bengali 110 105 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 140 135 0 0
Bosnian 70 60 0 0
Bulgarian 270 235 0 30
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 1,035 895 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,475 1,255 0 15
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 145 140 0 0
Czech 115 105 0 0
Danish 60 55 0 0
Dutch 290 290 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 65 60 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 15 20 0 0
German 655 650 0 0
Greek 80 80 0 0
Gujarati 125 125 0 0
Hakka 10 10 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 560 540 0 5
Hungarian 285 265 0 10
Ilocano 110 110 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Italian 365 345 0 10
Japanese 390 370 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 1,035 880 0 10
Kurdish 55 50 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 25 25 0 0
Lingala 5 5 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 20 15 0 0
Malay 95 95 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,660 1,425 0 25
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 25 20 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0
Norwegian 35 35 0 0
Oromo 15 15 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 2,530 2,120 0 10
Pashto 35 35 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 650 565 0 10
Polish 510 485 0 10
Portuguese 290 275 0 5
Romanian 740 555 0 145
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 855 745 0 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 460 400 0 35
Serbo-Croatian 75 75 0 0
Shanghainese 25 15 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Sindhi 30 30 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 45 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Slovak 120 120 0 5
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 5 10 0 0
Spanish 1,090 980 0 50
Swahili 25 20 0 5
Swedish 50 55 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 2,550 2,525 0 0
Taiwanese 50 40 0 0
Tamil 70 65 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 55 55 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 45 45 0 0
Turkish 65 65 0 0
Ukrainian 185 170 0 10
Urdu 100 95 0 5
Vietnamese 155 140 5 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 235 225 0 5
Multiple responses 1,750 1,660 45 40
English and French 120 90 0 30
English and non-official language 1,525 1,525 5 0
French and non-official language 75 30 40 0
English, French and non-official language 30 20 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 65,170 62,185 825 540
Single responses 61,590 58,720 765 490
English 49,785 49,245 540 0
French 215 15 195 0
Non-official languages 11,585 9,455 25 490
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 10 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 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 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 11,525 9,405 25 490
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 5
Albanian 40 35 0 0
Amharic 40 40 0 0
Arabic 300 210 0 45
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 75 70 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 45 40 0 0
Bosnian 40 30 0 5
Bulgarian 210 170 0 30
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 630 485 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 950 750 0 20
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 40 40 0 0
Czech 45 40 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 25 25 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 80 70 0 5
Greek 20 15 0 0
Gujarati 30 30 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 240 220 0 5
Hungarian 115 95 0 10
Ilocano 25 25 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 65 45 0 15
Japanese 155 130 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0
Korean 770 610 0 5
Kurdish 25 25 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,355 1,110 0 25
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,725 1,325 0 10
Pashto 15 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 425 345 0 10
Polish 205 185 0 5
Portuguese 80 70 0 5
Romanian 500 315 0 140
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 565 465 5 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 290 230 0 35
Serbo-Croatian 25 20 0 0
Shanghainese 20 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 15 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 65 55 0 5
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 545 435 5 45
Swahili 10 5 0 5
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,180 1,160 0 5
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 40 35 0 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0
Thai 15 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 35 35 0 5
Turkish 40 40 0 0
Ukrainian 35 25 0 5
Urdu 55 50 0 5
Vietnamese 80 55 0 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 55 45 0 5
Multiple responses 3,575 3,470 65 45
English and French 90 25 35 25
English and non-official language 3,425 3,410 15 0
French and non-official language 20 15 10 0
English, French and non-official language 45 20 0 25
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 65,165 62,185 825 540
None 53,020 50,835 455 245
Single responses 11,940 11,200 360 255
English 4,860 4,440 110 230
French 615 400 210 5
Non-official languages 6,465 6,365 35 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 15 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 6,345 6,240 40 20
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0
Amharic 45 40 0 0
Arabic 135 130 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 30 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 45 45 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0
Bulgarian 40 45 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 285 280 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 280 280 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 55 60 0 0
Czech 35 35 0 0
Danish 25 30 0 0
Dutch 95 95 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 235 230 0 0
Greek 40 40 0 0
Gujarati 65 70 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 325 320 0 0
Hungarian 90 90 0 0
Ilocano 30 30 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 160 165 0 0
Japanese 200 195 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 190 185 0 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 15 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 50 50 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 270 260 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 635 635 0 0
Pashto 15 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 120 120 0 0
Polish 150 150 0 0
Portuguese 120 125 0 0
Romanian 145 145 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 190 185 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 130 130 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 25 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 5
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 35 30 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 5
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 525 525 5 0
Swahili 15 10 5 5
Swedish 20 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 930 935 0 0
Taiwanese 30 25 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 0
Ukrainian 55 50 0 0
Urdu 30 25 0 0
Vietnamese 60 55 5 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 105 100 0 0
Multiple responses 205 150 15 40
English and French 35 5 5 30
English and non-official language 65 50 10 5
French and non-official language 105 95 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 65,165 62,190 825 540
English 62,185 62,190 0 0
French 825 0 825 0
English and French 540 0 0 540
Neither English nor French 1,615 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,095 0 825 270
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.7 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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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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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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