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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 Brantford, CY
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 92,420 90,905 925 120
0 to 4 years 5,500 5,435 15 5
5 to 9 years 5,435 5,390 25 15
10 to 14 years 5,745 5,700 25 20
15 to 19 years 6,345 6,315 20 10
20 to 24 years 5,880 5,840 30 5
25 to 29 years 5,895 5,845 40 5
30 to 34 years 5,880 5,805 60 10
35 to 39 years 5,880 5,800 60 5
40 to 44 years 6,075 5,990 65 0
45 to 49 years 7,150 7,040 75 10
50 to 54 years 7,105 6,960 115 5
55 to 59 years 6,470 6,350 85 0
60 to 64 years 5,665 5,505 100 10
65 to 69 years 4,010 3,910 60 5
70 to 74 years 3,100 2,995 60 0
75 to 79 years 2,565 2,475 30 5
80 to 84 years 2,015 1,920 40 5
85 years and over 1,700 1,630 20 0
Median ageFootnote 2 39.7 39.4 51.8 34.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 75,735 74,375 860 85
Married or living with a common-law partner 42,915 42,040 560 45
Married (and not separated) 34,960 34,200 470 40
Living common law 7,955 7,840 95 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 32,820 32,340 295 40
Single (never legally married) 19,955 19,770 135 30
Separated 3,150 3,100 35 5
Divorced 5,085 5,005 60 5
Widowed 4,630 4,460 60 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 92,425 90,900 925 120
English only 87,710 87,710 0 0
French only 30 0 30 0
English and French 4,185 3,170 890 120
Neither English nor French 495 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 92,425 90,905 925 120
Single responses 91,505 90,015 915 100
English 80,890 80,885 0 0
French 1,035 140 895 0
Non-official languages 9,580 8,985 15 100
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 9,450 8,865 15 105
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 35 35 0 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 255 230 0 10
Armenian 25 25 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 20 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 115 95 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 275 245 0 0
Creoles 15 10 0 10
Croatian 85 75 0 0
Czech 35 35 0 0
Danish 25 30 0 0
Dutch 550 550 0 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 15 20 0 0
Flemish 20 20 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 500 495 0 0
Greek 150 140 0 5
Gujarati 200 185 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 105 105 0 0
Hungarian 495 485 0 5
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 1,155 1,085 0 15
Japanese 40 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 20 0 0
Korean 130 120 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 40 40 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 15 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 45 45 0 0
Mandarin 80 70 0 5
Marathi 15 15 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 555 490 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 70 65 0 0
Polish 1,445 1,365 0 5
Portuguese 520 495 5 0
Romanian 115 100 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 70 65 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 90 90 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slovak 70 65 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 5
Somali 20 15 0 0
Spanish 360 330 5 15
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 275 275 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0
Telugu 40 35 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 30 20 0 0
Ukrainian 265 260 0 0
Urdu 250 245 0 0
Vietnamese 510 440 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 110 105 0 0
Multiple responses 915 890 10 15
English and French 155 140 5 15
English and non-official language 710 710 0 0
French and non-official language 35 25 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 15 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 92,425 90,905 925 120
Single responses 90,875 89,435 880 90
English 86,605 85,960 645 0
French 250 25 225 0
Non-official languages 4,025 3,450 10 90
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 10 5 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 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 3,975 3,410 10 90
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 25 25 0 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 125 105 0 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 70 50 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 175 150 0 5
Creoles 10 5 0 10
Croatian 20 20 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 35 30 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 40 45 0 0
Greek 60 50 0 0
Gujarati 135 120 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 65 65 0 0
Hungarian 125 115 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 370 300 0 10
Japanese 30 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0
Korean 95 85 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 25 20 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 75 65 0 0
Marathi 10 15 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 375 315 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 40 0 0
Polish 655 585 0 5
Portuguese 155 125 5 0
Romanian 60 45 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 35 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 40 30 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 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 30 25 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 5
Somali 15 15 0 0
Spanish 170 145 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 100 95 0 5
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0
Telugu 20 25 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 0 0
Urdu 155 145 0 0
Vietnamese 400 330 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 40 35 0 0
Multiple responses 1,545 1,470 45 30
English and French 95 35 40 25
English and non-official language 1,430 1,430 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 92,425 90,905 925 120
None 86,695 85,620 570 55
Single responses 5,635 5,210 345 55
English 1,700 1,525 115 50
French 685 465 220 5
Non-official languages 3,240 3,215 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 30 35 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 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 20 20 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 3,100 3,075 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 90 90 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 65 0 0
Creoles 15 15 0 0
Croatian 20 25 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 10 0 0
Dutch 160 160 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 185 175 0 5
Greek 65 70 0 5
Gujarati 40 35 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 65 60 0 0
Hungarian 140 135 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Italian 450 445 0 0
Japanese 15 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 20 20 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 5 0
Marathi 0 5 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) 145 145 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 0
Polish 455 455 0 0
Portuguese 220 225 0 0
Romanian 25 25 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 40 40 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 175 170 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 125 130 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0
Ukrainian 70 70 0 0
Urdu 60 65 0 0
Vietnamese 100 95 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 110 110 0 0
Multiple responses 90 75 10 5
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 35 30 5 0
French and non-official language 50 50 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 92,420 90,905 925 120
English 90,900 90,900 0 0
French 925 0 925 0
English and French 120 0 0 120
Neither English nor French 475 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 985 0 925 60
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.1 0.0 100.0 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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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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Footnote 10

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 11

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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Footnote 14

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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