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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 Region 6Footnote 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 19,205 18,270 785 80
0 to 4 years 1,475 1,395 50 10
5 to 9 years 1,245 1,190 45 10
10 to 14 years 1,155 1,105 40 10
15 to 19 years 1,435 1,395 30 5
20 to 24 years 1,555 1,515 35 5
25 to 29 years 1,765 1,680 85 5
30 to 34 years 1,805 1,695 100 5
35 to 39 years 1,565 1,480 75 5
40 to 44 years 1,485 1,405 65 10
45 to 49 years 1,625 1,550 70 5
50 to 54 years 1,540 1,440 90 5
55 to 59 years 1,175 1,105 55 10
60 to 64 years 730 695 30 0
65 to 69 years 315 305 10 0
70 to 74 years 155 145 5 0
75 to 79 years 90 80 0 0
80 to 84 years 55 50 5 0
85 years and over 35 35 5 0
Median ageFootnote 3 32.6 32.4 36.1 29.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 15,335 14,580 655 55
Married or living with a common-law partner 8,805 8,325 415 30
Married (and not separated) 6,200 5,910 235 25
Living common law 2,600 2,420 175 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 6,530 6,255 240 25
Single (never legally married) 5,160 4,975 165 15
Separated 375 355 20 0
Divorced 740 690 40 10
Widowed 250 235 10 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 19,205 18,270 785 80
English only 16,275 16,275 0 0
French only 40 0 40 0
English and French 2,820 1,995 745 85
Neither English nor French 65 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 19,205 18,270 785 80
Single responses 18,930 18,020 775 65
English 15,240 15,240 0 0
French 810 50 765 0
Non-official languages 2,875 2,730 15 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 260 255 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Dene 125 125 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 110 105 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 7 1,950 1,820 10 60
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 15 10 0 0
Arabic 95 70 5 15
Armenian 75 70 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Bengali 35 35 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 55 60 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 75 70 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 70 0 0
Creoles 40 25 0 15
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 40 35 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 135 130 5 5
Greek 5 10 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 45 35 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 40 35 0 0
Japanese 20 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 5
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 35 35 0 0
Spanish 70 65 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 455 445 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 150 130 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 670 655 0 5
Multiple responses 275 255 5 15
English and French 65 40 5 15
English and non-official language 200 195 0 0
French and non-official language 15 15 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 19,205 18,270 785 80
Single responses 18,910 18,015 775 55
English 17,315 16,955 355 0
French 460 35 425 0
Non-official languages 1,140 1,020 0 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 30 35 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0
Dene 10 10 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 15 20 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 975 865 0 50
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 65 45 0 10
Armenian 55 50 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 20 20 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 40 0 0
Creoles 25 10 0 15
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 5 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 25 20 0 0
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 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 10 5 0 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 15 10 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 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 5 5 0 0
Portuguese 10 5 0 5
Romanian 5 5 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 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) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 15 10 0 0
Spanish 30 30 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 270 260 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 140 120 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 130 125 0 0
Multiple responses 290 260 5 25
English and French 35 10 5 15
English and non-official language 240 240 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 19,205 18,270 785 80
None 16,565 16,085 375 45
Single responses 2,585 2,145 405 35
English 770 510 220 30
French 460 295 165 5
Non-official languages 1,360 1,335 20 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 190 185 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0
Dene 100 95 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 80 80 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 690 675 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 20 15 5 0
Armenian 35 35 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 20 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 55 45 5 0
Greek 0 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 10 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 0
Portuguese 10 5 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 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. 0 0 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 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 20 20 0 0
Spanish 55 50 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 155 155 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 5 10 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 15 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 480 480 0 0
Multiple responses 50 45 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 10 5 5 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 19,205 18,270 785 80
English 18,270 18,270 0 0
French 785 0 780 0
English and French 80 0 0 80
Neither English nor French 65 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 825 0 780 40
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 4.3 0.0 99.4 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

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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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