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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 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
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 91,630 2,730 88,435 405
0 to 4 years 5,580 95 5,445 30
5 to 9 years 4,730 90 4,625 15
10 to 14 years 5,090 110 4,955 25
15 to 19 years 6,150 165 5,945 45
20 to 24 years 5,695 190 5,480 25
25 to 29 years 5,500 190 5,275 20
30 to 34 years 6,300 185 6,080 35
35 to 39 years 5,785 205 5,550 35
40 to 44 years 6,080 255 5,785 40
45 to 49 years 7,240 255 6,950 35
50 to 54 years 7,565 220 7,315 35
55 to 59 years 6,695 170 6,495 20
60 to 64 years 6,050 175 5,850 20
65 to 69 years 4,575 135 4,430 5
70 to 74 years 3,205 110 3,085 10
75 to 79 years 2,390 75 2,305 5
80 to 84 years 1,710 65 1,635 5
85 years and over 1,295 50 1,240 5
Median ageFootnote 3 40.8 42.7 40.8 36.4
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 76,225 2,435 73,420 330
Married or living with a common-law partner 43,910 1,385 42,320 180
Married (and not separated) 24,315 925 23,215 150
Living common law 19,595 460 19,100 30
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 32,315 1,050 31,095 155
Single (never legally married) 21,490 705 20,670 110
Separated 1,030 40 980 5
Divorced 5,725 175 5,520 25
Widowed 4,070 130 3,925 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 91,630 2,730 88,435 405
English only 560 560 0 0
French only 54,535 0 54,535 0
English and French 36,470 2,165 33,895 405
Neither English nor French 65 5 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 91,630 2,730 88,435 405
Single responses 90,645 2,600 87,765 215
English 2,415 2,350 65 0
French 86,635 5 86,625 0
Non-official languages 1,595 245 1,075 210
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 0 0 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 5 0 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 7 1,570 250 1,055 210
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 150 10 120 15
Armenian 10 0 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 5
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 0 10 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 15 10 15
Creoles 25 0 25 0
Croatian 10 0 10 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 5
Dutch 20 0 15 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 15 5 15 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 140 50 75 10
Greek 40 20 15 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 160 15 125 20
Japanese 5 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 50 5 40 0
Korean 10 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 25 5 10 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 5 10 5
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 0 15 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 25 10 15 5
Portuguese 165 5 145 5
Romanian 45 0 35 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 25 10 15 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 5 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 5 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 5 0
Slovak 10 5 5 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 370 25 255 80
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 5 10 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 55 5 40 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 20 0 15 0
Multiple responses 990 125 670 190
English and French 755 85 495 180
English and non-official language 40 35 5 0
French and non-official language 160 5 155 0
English, French and non-official language 40 5 15 15
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 91,630 2,730 88,435 405
Single responses 90,680 2,550 87,895 170
English 2,095 1,650 440 0
French 88,065 855 87,210 0
Non-official languages 515 45 240 170
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 505 45 235 170
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 25 5 10 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 0 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 10 10 15
Creoles 5 0 5 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 20 5 5 10
Greek 5 5 0 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 30 0 20 10
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 5 20 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 5 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 15 0 5 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 5 0 0 5
Portuguese 55 0 40 5
Romanian 20 0 10 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 5 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 165 5 70 70
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 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 20 5 5 5
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 30 5 15 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 955 175 540 235
English and French 660 135 315 210
English and non-official language 40 30 5 0
French and non-official language 205 0 210 0
English, French and non-official language 50 10 20 25
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 91,630 2,730 88,440 405
None 84,300 1,450 82,495 295
Single responses 7,130 1,250 5,795 85
English 5,275 500 4,765 15
French 1,145 635 450 60
Non-official languages 710 120 580 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 0 0 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 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 15 685 115 555 15
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 80 5 75 0
Armenian 5 5 5 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 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 0 10 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 5 5 5
Creoles 20 0 20 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 50 20 30 0
Greek 25 15 15 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 65 10 55 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 0 25 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 5 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 10 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 0 5 0 0
Portuguese 60 0 60 0
Romanian 5 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 0 5 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 5 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 200 10 190 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 5 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 30 0 25 0
Multiple responses 195 25 145 25
English and French 30 5 0 25
English and non-official language 140 0 140 0
French and non-official language 25 20 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 91,630 2,730 88,435 405
English 2,730 2,730 0 0
French 88,435 0 88,435 0
English and French 405 0 0 405
Neither English nor French 60 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 2,935 2,730 0 205
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 3.2 100.0 0.0 50.6

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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

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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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-XCB2011058.

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