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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. 13Footnote 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 46,200 45,490 585 40
0 to 4 years 2,105 2,080 10 0
5 to 9 years 2,630 2,610 5 10
10 to 14 years 3,160 3,145 10 5
15 to 19 years 3,515 3,490 15 5
20 to 24 years 2,685 2,670 20 5
25 to 29 years 1,915 1,900 15 5
30 to 34 years 1,975 1,955 25 5
35 to 39 years 2,590 2,560 30 0
40 to 44 years 3,400 3,360 40 0
45 to 49 years 4,230 4,155 70 0
50 to 54 years 4,345 4,255 85 0
55 to 59 years 3,815 3,745 70 0
60 to 64 years 3,255 3,175 75 0
65 to 69 years 2,430 2,375 40 5
70 to 74 years 1,690 1,635 45 0
75 to 79 years 1,160 1,135 20 0
80 to 84 years 725 700 10 0
85 years and over 570 550 15 0
Median ageFootnote 3 43.8 43.6 53.8 16.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 38,305 37,655 555 20
Married or living with a common-law partner 24,765 24,275 445 15
Married (and not separated) 21,885 21,460 380 10
Living common law 2,880 2,815 65 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 13,540 13,375 110 10
Single (never legally married) 9,230 9,155 60 10
Separated 815 805 10 0
Divorced 1,620 1,595 20 0
Widowed 1,875 1,820 30 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 46,200 45,495 585 40
English only 43,500 43,500 0 0
French only 15 0 15 0
English and French 2,595 1,985 570 40
Neither English nor French 95 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 46,200 45,490 585 40
Single responses 45,700 45,015 570 25
English 39,675 39,670 0 0
French 655 85 570 0
Non-official languages 5,370 5,255 0 25
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 80 80 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 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 45 45 0 0
Oji-Cree 10 10 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 5,225 5,115 5 25
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 15 0 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 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 45 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 90 95 0 0
Czech 30 35 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 180 180 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,810 1,790 0 0
Greek 30 25 0 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 5
Hungarian 60 60 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 200 195 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 115 110 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 10 0 0
Polish 625 615 0 0
Portuguese 375 360 0 5
Romanian 20 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 95 85 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 0
Slovenian 35 30 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 85 80 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 135 130 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 1,040 1,030 0 5
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 50 40 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 65 65 0 0
Multiple responses 505 480 10 15
English and French 90 70 5 15
English and non-official language 385 385 0 0
French and non-official language 25 20 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 46,200 45,490 585 40
Single responses 45,590 44,915 565 25
English 44,240 43,765 475 0
French 110 25 85 0
Non-official languages 1,235 1,125 0 25
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 10 10 0 0
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 5 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 1,225 1,110 0 25
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 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 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 475 455 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 5
Hungarian 15 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 30 20 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 45 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 190 185 0 5
Portuguese 75 60 0 5
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 20 15 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 50 50 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 105 100 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 35 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 5 5 0 0
Multiple responses 610 580 15 15
English and French 35 15 10 10
English and non-official language 565 560 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 5 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 46,200 45,490 580 40
None 43,405 42,915 385 25
Single responses 2,750 2,535 200 10
English 660 595 55 15
French 355 215 140 0
Non-official languages 1,735 1,725 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 55 55 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 35 35 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,645 1,640 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 5 0 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 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 50 45 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 50 55 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 465 465 0 0
Greek 20 15 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 65 65 0 0
Japanese 0 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 180 180 0 0
Portuguese 215 210 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 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 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 50 50 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 325 325 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 35 40 0 0
Multiple responses 45 40 5 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 5 5 0 0
French and non-official language 40 40 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 46,200 45,490 580 40
English 45,495 45,495 0 0
French 585 0 585 0
English and French 40 0 0 40
Neither English nor French 85 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 600 0 585 20
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.3 0.0 100.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.

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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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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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