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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 SherbrookeFootnote 2
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 3 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 199,190 10,790 185,340 2,285
0 to 4 years 10,860 420 10,125 85
5 to 9 years 10,155 470 9,540 100
10 to 14 years 10,750 490 10,080 155
15 to 19 years 12,725 660 11,735 310
20 to 24 years 14,625 755 13,570 285
25 to 29 years 13,345 650 12,445 215
30 to 34 years 12,965 620 12,080 230
35 to 39 years 11,580 585 10,730 230
40 to 44 years 12,130 670 11,265 165
45 to 49 years 14,730 765 13,750 155
50 to 54 years 15,385 790 14,450 100
55 to 59 years 14,805 780 13,920 75
60 to 64 years 13,600 810 12,690 50
65 to 69 years 10,840 635 10,130 55
70 to 74 years 7,325 530 6,740 30
75 to 79 years 5,735 440 5,250 30
80 to 84 years 4,100 355 3,710 10
85 years and over 3,530 370 3,145 10
Median ageFootnote 4 41.1 45.5 41.1 29.9
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 167,420 9,415 155,595 1,940
Married or living with a common-law partner 94,085 5,340 87,475 995
Married (and not separated) 53,530 3,960 48,435 875
Living common law 40,555 1,375 39,045 125
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 73,335 4,080 68,115 945
Single (never legally married) 48,965 2,520 45,565 800
Separated 2,225 140 2,045 25
Divorced 13,540 730 12,700 85
Widowed 8,605 690 7,805 35
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 199,190 10,795 185,340 2,280
English only 3,060 3,060 0 0
French only 111,460 0 111,460 0
English and French 83,855 7,725 73,845 2,285
Neither English nor French 815 5 35 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 199,190 10,795 185,340 2,285
Single responses 196,865 10,440 183,835 1,820
English 9,740 9,600 135 0
French 178,035 30 178,005 0
Non-official languages 9,085 810 5,695 1,815
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 10 5 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 5 0
Inuktitut 5 0 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 8 8,895 795 5,535 1,795
African languages, n.i.e. 20 5 15 0
Afrikaans 5 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 0 10 5
Amharic 0 0 5 0
Arabic 1,180 60 795 205
Armenian 10 0 10 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 80 5 65 5
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 55 0 50 5
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 5
Bosnian 145 0 110 20
Bulgarian 25 0 15 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 10 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 190 85 45 35
Creoles 120 0 105 10
Croatian 65 5 45 15
Czech 35 0 15 10
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 60 20 25 15
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 10 0 10 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 190 75 90 25
Greek 65 20 25 20
Gujarati 10 0 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 10 5 0
Hungarian 40 10 20 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Italian 185 30 130 25
Japanese 25 10 10 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 5 40 10
Korean 35 15 5 10
Kurdish 20 5 15 0
Lao 20 0 15 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 45 0 45 0
Lithuanian 10 5 5 5
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 0 5 5
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 30 20 15
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 220 35 25 50
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 0 55 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 65 0 55 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 5 5
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 730 90 310 165
Polish 130 20 75 40
Portuguese 175 15 110 50
Romanian 145 10 85 45
Rundi (Kirundi) 155 5 145 10
Russian 125 20 75 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 70 5 60 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
Serbian 430 10 265 120
Serbo-Croatian 400 5 260 115
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Slovak 20 5 10 5
Slovenian 0 0 5 5
Somali 10 0 10 5
Spanish 2,820 95 1,950 565
Swahili 135 5 125 10
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 25 10 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 5 5 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 45 5 30 10
Ukrainian 20 5 10 5
Urdu 20 5 0 5
Vietnamese 165 10 105 40
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 185 10 155 20
Multiple responses 2,325 355 1,505 465
English and French 1,555 245 880 430
English and non-official language 110 100 5 0
French and non-official language 590 5 585 0
English, French and non-official language 75 5 30 40
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 199,185 10,790 185,340 2,285
Single responses 196,090 10,315 183,285 1,710
English 9,190 8,100 1,090 0
French 181,245 1,865 179,370 0
Non-official languages 5,660 355 2,820 1,710
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 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 12 5,590 350 2,780 1,695
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 600 20 265 190
Armenian 10 0 5 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 0 10 0
Bengali 5 0 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 20 5 15 5
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 5
Bosnian 105 0 75 25
Bulgarian 15 0 5 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 155 65 25 40
Creoles 25 0 15 5
Croatian 40 0 20 15
Czech 20 0 5 15
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 5 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 40 5 10 20
Greek 30 5 5 20
Gujarati 5 0 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 5
Hungarian 10 5 5 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 0 15 20
Japanese 15 10 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 40 5 25 5
Korean 30 10 5 15
Kurdish 10 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 5 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 10 5
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 40 15 5 15
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 200 30 20 50
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 0 15 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 5
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 620 75 215 160
Polish 55 5 15 35
Portuguese 110 0 50 55
Romanian 80 5 35 50
Rundi (Kirundi) 35 0 25 10
Russian 60 5 25 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
Serbian 345 0 200 110
Serbo-Croatian 295 0 160 115
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 0 20 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 0 5 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 0 5 5
Spanish 2,090 40 1,295 550
Swahili 90 0 80 5
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 0 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 5
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 0 20 10
Ukrainian 5 5 5 0
Urdu 10 5 0 5
Vietnamese 105 10 40 40
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 65 5 40 15
Multiple responses 3,100 475 2,055 570
English and French 1,495 330 690 480
English and non-official language 145 125 15 0
French and non-official language 1,300 0 1,300 0
English, French and non-official language 160 20 50 90
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 199,185 10,795 185,340 2,280
None 179,925 6,940 171,080 1,215
Single responses 18,510 3,730 13,865 850
English 10,750 1,250 9,375 120
French 5,250 2,210 2,315 665
Non-official languages 2,510 265 2,175 60
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 5 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 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 16 2,385 265 2,055 60
African languages, n.i.e. 15 0 20 0
Afrikaans 0 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 375 25 350 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 0 15 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 35 0 35 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 0 40 0
Bulgarian 10 0 10 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 10 20 0
Creoles 65 0 65 0
Croatian 10 5 5 0
Czech 15 0 15 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 15 10 10 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 95 30 55 5
Greek 15 0 15 0
Gujarati 5 0 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 15 0 10 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 65 10 55 5
Japanese 10 5 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 5 10 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 35 0 35 0
Lithuanian 5 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 5 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 0 30 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 15 0 20 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 65 10 50 5
Polish 35 5 25 0
Portuguese 55 5 50 0
Romanian 25 5 25 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 70 0 70 0
Russian 50 10 30 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 35 0 30 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 55 5 45 0
Serbo-Croatian 65 0 60 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 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. 10 0 10 0
Slovak 10 5 5 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 0 10 0
Spanish 735 55 670 10
Swahili 70 5 65 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 5 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 0 10 0
Ukrainian 10 0 0 5
Urdu 20 10 0 5
Vietnamese 40 0 40 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 120 0 115 0
Multiple responses 745 125 395 220
English and French 255 15 25 210
English and non-official language 380 20 355 0
French and non-official language 105 85 15 5
English, French and non-official language 10 5 5 10
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 199,185 10,795 185,340 2,285
English 10,790 10,790 0 0
French 185,340 0 185,340 0
English and French 2,280 0 0 2,285
Neither English nor French 775 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 11,935 10,790 0 1,140
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 6.0 100.0 0.0 49.9

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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

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

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Footnote 3

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 9

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 10

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 11

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 14

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 18

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 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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Footnote 20

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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