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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 Yellowknife
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 18,995 18,065 785 80
0 to 4 years 1,460 1,380 45 5
5 to 9 years 1,225 1,170 45 10
10 to 14 years 1,135 1,085 40 10
15 to 19 years 1,410 1,380 30 5
20 to 24 years 1,540 1,500 35 0
25 to 29 years 1,755 1,665 80 5
30 to 34 years 1,795 1,690 100 5
35 to 39 years 1,550 1,470 75 5
40 to 44 years 1,470 1,395 60 10
45 to 49 years 1,605 1,525 70 5
50 to 54 years 1,515 1,420 85 10
55 to 59 years 1,165 1,100 55 5
60 to 64 years 725 690 30 0
65 to 69 years 315 305 5 0
70 to 74 years 150 140 5 0
75 to 79 years 90 80 5 0
80 to 84 years 55 50 0 0
85 years and over 35 30 5 0
Median ageFootnote 3 32.6 32.4 36.1 29.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 15,175 14,430 655 55
Married or living with a common-law partner 8,715 8,245 415 35
Married (and not separated) 6,165 5,875 240 25
Living common law 2,550 2,375 175 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 6,460 6,185 235 25
Single (never legally married) 5,100 4,915 165 15
Separated 375 355 15 0
Divorced 740 690 40 5
Widowed 245 230 10 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 18,995 18,065 785 80
English only 16,065 16,065 0 0
French only 40 0 40 0
English and French 2,820 1,995 740 80
Neither English nor French 70 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 18,990 18,065 785 80
Single responses 18,720 17,810 775 65
English 15,120 15,120 0 0
French 805 50 760 0
Non-official languages 2,790 2,645 15 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 250 245 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Dene 115 110 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 110 110 0 5
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 1,955 1,820 15 55
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 95 70 5 15
Armenian 75 70 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 0
Bengali 35 30 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 60 55 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 75 75 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 70 0 0
Creoles 35 20 0 15
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 40 40 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 135 125 5 5
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 10 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 40 40 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 35 35 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 10 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 20 15 0 5
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 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. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 35 35 0 0
Spanish 70 65 0 5
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 455 450 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 155 135 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 590 580 0 5
Multiple responses 270 245 5 15
English and French 60 40 5 15
English and non-official language 195 195 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 18,990 18,065 780 80
Single responses 18,715 17,815 775 55
English 17,135 16,780 350 0
French 460 35 420 0
Non-official languages 1,115 995 0 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 35 30 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 10 10 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 20 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 11 980 865 0 50
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 60 45 0 15
Armenian 55 50 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 20 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 40 0 0
Creoles 25 10 0 20
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 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 20 0 0
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 5 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
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 0
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) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 5 0 0
Portuguese 5 0 0 5
Romanian 0 5 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 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 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 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0
Spanish 35 30 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 270 265 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 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 5 5 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 140 115 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 105 100 0 5
Multiple responses 280 250 5 25
English and French 35 10 5 20
English and non-official language 230 235 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 18,995 18,060 785 80
None 16,430 15,950 380 45
Single responses 2,510 2,070 405 35
English 770 510 225 25
French 460 295 160 0
Non-official languages 1,280 1,260 20 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 170 170 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0
Dene 85 80 5 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 80 80 5 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 15 0
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 5 0 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 0
Armenian 35 30 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 10 5 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 15 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 55 50 5 0
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 5 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 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 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 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 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 10 15 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 0 0 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. 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 5 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 15 0 0
Spanish 55 50 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 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 5 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 420 415 0 0
Multiple responses 55 50 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 5
English and non-official language 10 5 0 0
French and non-official language 45 40 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 18,995 18,065 780 80
English 18,065 18,065 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 0 785 40
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 4.3 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

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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