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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), Mother Tongue (4A), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , mother tongue , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in CharlottetownFootnote 2
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 3 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 63,515 61,555 1,285 110
0 to 4 years 3,500 3,385 45 5
5 to 9 years 3,310 3,220 55 5
10 to 14 years 3,690 3,595 45 20
15 to 19 years 4,365 4,260 60 20
20 to 24 years 4,690 4,595 75 10
25 to 29 years 3,830 3,725 90 5
30 to 34 years 3,755 3,640 90 0
35 to 39 years 4,005 3,875 75 10
40 to 44 years 4,465 4,235 115 5
45 to 49 years 5,065 4,815 120 5
50 to 54 years 4,890 4,730 105 5
55 to 59 years 4,665 4,505 140 0
60 to 64 years 4,385 4,275 100 0
65 to 69 years 2,930 2,865 55 5
70 to 74 years 2,185 2,135 45 5
75 to 79 years 1,700 1,665 30 5
80 to 84 years 1,095 1,075 20 0
85 years and over 975 955 15 0
Median ageFootnote 4 40.7 40.6 44.4 20.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 53,010 51,355 1,135 75
Married or living with a common-law partner 30,780 29,625 745 40
Married (and not separated) 26,460 25,460 590 45
Living common law 4,320 4,160 155 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 22,225 21,730 390 35
Single (never legally married) 15,060 14,725 255 30
Separated 1,435 1,395 30 0
Divorced 2,955 2,875 70 0
Widowed 2,780 2,735 35 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 63,515 61,560 1,285 110
English only 54,580 54,580 0 0
French only 60 0 60 0
English and French 8,280 6,945 1,230 110
Neither English nor French 595 30 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 63,510 61,555 1,285 110
Single responses 63,140 61,245 1,260 75
English 58,085 58,085 0 0
French 1,360 120 1,240 0
Non-official languages 3,695 3,040 15 80
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 20 20 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 20 15 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 3,640 2,980 15 75
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 50 35 0 5
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 245 225 5 10
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 5 0
Bengali 25 25 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 20 15 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 75 55 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,055 710 0 5
Creoles 10 10 0 5
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 225 225 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 155 150 0 5
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 10 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 45 35 0 5
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 35 0 5
Japanese 65 60 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 115 100 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 5
Mandarin 280 210 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 95 70 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 200 180 0 0
Polish 35 30 5 5
Portuguese 25 20 0 5
Romanian 10 10 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 100 85 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slovak 5 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 30 20 0 0
Spanish 175 150 0 15
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 45 50 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 20 25 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 15 20 0 0
Urdu 35 35 0 0
Vietnamese 30 35 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 35 35 0 5
Multiple responses 370 315 25 30
English and French 180 135 20 20
English and non-official language 165 165 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 63,515 61,555 1,285 110
Single responses 62,985 61,105 1,235 85
English 59,930 59,245 680 0
French 600 55 540 0
Non-official languages 2,460 1,805 5 80
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 12 2,445 1,795 10 80
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 50 40 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 105 85 5 15
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 20 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 5
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 55 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 970 620 0 0
Creoles 10 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 40 40 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 40 35 0 5
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 30 25 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 0 0 5
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 100 85 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 245 175 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 90 65 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 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 165 145 0 0
Polish 10 5 0 5
Portuguese 5 5 0 5
Romanian 10 10 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 75 65 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 25 20 0 0
Spanish 100 70 5 15
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 30 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 10 10 0 0
Multiple responses 530 450 50 25
English and French 95 40 35 20
English and non-official language 410 405 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 5 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 63,515 61,555 1,285 110
None 60,215 58,985 695 50
Single responses 3,215 2,515 585 40
English 1,135 765 275 35
French 1,145 840 305 0
Non-official languages 935 905 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 25 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 20 20 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 875 850 15 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 100 95 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 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 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 70 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 5 10 0 0
Dutch 70 70 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 45 45 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 25 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 0
Japanese 45 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 30 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 20 20 5 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 20 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 95 90 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 20 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 35 35 0 0
Multiple responses 80 55 0 15
English and French 25 0 0 20
English and non-official language 30 25 0 0
French and non-official language 30 30 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 63,510 61,555 1,285 110
English 61,555 61,555 0 0
French 1,285 0 1,285 0
English and French 110 0 0 110
Neither English nor French 565 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 1,335 0 1,285 55
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 2.1 0.0 100.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Language groups are defined as follows: 'English' includes respondents who reported English only or English and one non-official language; 'French' includes respondents who reported French only or French and one non-official language; 'English and French' includes respondents who reported English and French, with or without one non-official language.

'Total' category includes all groups mentioned as well as respondents who reported a non-official language as their only mother tongue.

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Footnote 2

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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Footnote 3

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 11

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 14

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 18

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 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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Footnote 20

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-XCB2011058.

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