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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 St. Catharines - Niagara
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 386,525 370,745 12,175 1,015
0 to 4 years 18,345 17,760 250 40
5 to 9 years 19,425 19,020 295 85
10 to 14 years 21,650 21,130 365 135
15 to 19 years 25,540 24,925 455 140
20 to 24 years 24,770 24,250 410 75
25 to 29 years 21,260 20,720 435 50
30 to 34 years 20,320 19,700 515 45
35 to 39 years 21,985 21,220 620 60
40 to 44 years 25,310 24,400 740 65
45 to 49 years 30,825 29,565 1,070 60
50 to 54 years 30,800 29,375 1,220 45
55 to 59 years 28,580 27,190 1,200 50
60 to 64 years 26,900 25,425 1,265 45
65 to 69 years 21,300 20,030 1,055 45
70 to 74 years 16,635 15,580 785 30
75 to 79 years 13,825 12,900 620 25
80 to 84 years 10,785 9,980 495 15
85 years and over 8,260 7,575 380 15
Median ageFootnote 3 44.0 43.4 53.9 28.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 327,100 312,840 11,265 755
Married or living with a common-law partner 188,260 179,390 7,170 380
Married (and not separated) 161,920 154,285 6,010 345
Living common law 26,340 25,105 1,160 30
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 138,835 133,450 4,095 380
Single (never legally married) 83,465 81,325 1,735 285
Separated 11,955 11,425 445 30
Divorced 20,995 20,035 820 30
Widowed 22,425 20,665 1,095 30
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 386,525 370,745 12,175 1,015
English only 353,445 353,445 0 0
French only 485 0 485 0
English and French 29,905 17,205 11,685 1,020
Neither English nor French 2,680 85 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 386,520 370,745 12,175 1,015
Single responses 381,390 366,055 11,975 770
English 314,670 314,655 10 0
French 12,830 1,005 11,825 0
Non-official languages 53,885 50,385 140 770
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 50 45 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 20 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 25 20 0 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 53,415 49,955 130 760
African languages, n.i.e. 30 30 5 0
Afrikaans 90 90 0 0
Akan (Twi) 40 35 0 0
Albanian 125 115 0 5
Amharic 30 25 0 0
Arabic 1,970 1,750 10 95
Armenian 220 195 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 50 35 5 10
Bengali 140 135 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 70 70 0 0
Bosnian 160 145 0 5
Bulgarian 290 270 0 10
Burmese 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 640 510 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,705 1,495 0 10
Creoles 185 100 25 55
Croatian 960 925 5 5
Czech 295 285 0 5
Danish 170 170 0 0
Dutch 3,550 3,535 0 10
Estonian 100 100 0 0
Finnish 170 170 0 0
Flemish 55 50 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 6,545 6,405 5 35
Greek 695 670 0 5
Gujarati 460 405 0 10
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 60 50 0 5
Hindi 280 270 0 5
Hungarian 1,875 1,815 5 10
Ilocano 60 55 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 5
Italian 11,200 10,480 15 55
Japanese 285 280 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 165 135 0 5
Korean 835 760 0 15
Kurdish 195 180 0 5
Lao 260 225 0 5
Latvian 120 115 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 130 120 0 0
Macedonian 75 70 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 0
Malayalam 115 110 0 5
Maltese 120 120 0 0
Mandarin 555 500 0 5
Marathi 35 35 0 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 45 5 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 360 325 0 0
Pashto 45 45 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 360 340 0 5
Polish 3,615 3,430 0 50
Portuguese 625 590 10 10
Romanian 325 290 0 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 25 10 5 5
Russian 850 765 5 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 15 5 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Serbian 1,380 1,245 0 45
Serbo-Croatian 100 95 0 5
Shanghainese 10 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 25 0 0
Sindhi 40 40 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 70 65 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 85 80 0 5
Slovak 455 455 5 0
Slovenian 395 390 0 5
Somali 125 115 0 0
Spanish 4,070 3,545 15 115
Swahili 100 90 5 5
Swedish 70 75 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,295 1,285 5 5
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 110 110 0 0
Telugu 35 35 0 0
Thai 65 60 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0
Tigrigna 35 30 0 0
Turkish 285 265 0 10
Ukrainian 1,825 1,760 0 20
Urdu 620 600 0 5
Vietnamese 605 510 0 10
Yiddish 15 15 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 420 390 10 5
Multiple responses 5,135 4,690 195 245
English and French 1,330 1,055 45 220
English and non-official language 3,460 3,455 0 0
French and non-official language 255 105 145 0
English, French and non-official language 95 70 0 25
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 386,520 370,740 12,175 1,015
Single responses 378,700 363,790 11,590 730
English 354,110 346,400 7,710 0
French 4,015 180 3,835 0
Non-official languages 20,580 17,210 45 735
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 5 5 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 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 5 0 0 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 20,495 17,150 45 725
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 50 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 0
Albanian 90 75 0 5
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 1,255 1,045 10 95
Armenian 95 75 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5
Bengali 90 80 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 15 0 0
Bosnian 110 90 0 5
Bulgarian 175 155 0 10
Burmese 5 0 0 5
Cantonese 415 295 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,240 1,045 0 10
Creoles 80 20 10 55
Croatian 305 270 0 5
Czech 90 80 0 0
Danish 10 15 0 0
Dutch 180 165 5 10
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 45 40 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,260 1,120 0 30
Greek 235 210 0 5
Gujarati 265 205 0 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 35 30 0 5
Hindi 125 110 0 0
Hungarian 450 400 0 10
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 3,550 2,845 5 50
Japanese 130 115 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 95 70 5 5
Korean 625 560 0 15
Kurdish 145 130 0 5
Lao 135 100 0 5
Latvian 25 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 20 0 5
Macedonian 25 15 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 50 45 0 0
Maltese 20 15 0 0
Mandarin 405 340 0 10
Marathi 20 15 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 170 135 0 0
Pashto 20 20 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 200 185 0 5
Polish 1,385 1,200 0 50
Portuguese 215 185 0 5
Romanian 150 110 0 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 5 0 5
Russian 460 375 0 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Serbian 835 700 0 40
Serbo-Croatian 40 30 0 5
Shanghainese 10 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 85 70 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 30 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5
Slovak 75 75 0 0
Slovenian 80 75 0 0
Somali 85 80 0 0
Spanish 2,555 2,040 0 120
Swahili 40 30 0 5
Swedish 10 5 5 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 480 465 0 5
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 55 50 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 25 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 0
Turkish 195 170 0 10
Ukrainian 420 355 0 25
Urdu 335 315 0 5
Vietnamese 430 335 0 10
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 80 65 0 0
Multiple responses 7,820 6,955 585 285
English and French 915 195 480 235
English and non-official language 6,705 6,685 15 0
French and non-official language 65 25 45 0
English, French and non-official language 140 50 40 50
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 386,525 370,745 12,175 1,015
None 351,020 341,455 6,680 545
Single responses 34,780 28,745 5,405 375
English 10,560 8,040 2,000 320
French 6,415 3,140 3,240 30
Non-official languages 17,805 17,570 165 30
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 45 40 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 20 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 15 15 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 17,460 17,235 150 30
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 45 45 0 0
Albanian 20 15 0 0
Amharic 20 20 0 0
Arabic 620 600 15 5
Armenian 70 65 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 10 5 0
Bengali 30 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0
Bulgarian 85 80 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 160 160 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 330 325 0 0
Creoles 120 95 20 0
Croatian 370 370 0 0
Czech 90 90 0 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 1,175 1,170 5 0
Estonian 30 30 0 0
Finnish 35 35 0 0
Flemish 15 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,915 1,900 10 5
Greek 390 390 5 0
Gujarati 115 115 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 25 0 0
Hindi 190 190 0 0
Hungarian 560 560 5 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 4,215 4,190 20 5
Japanese 155 150 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 50 5 0
Korean 170 175 0 0
Kurdish 15 20 0 0
Lao 65 65 0 0
Latvian 35 35 0 0
Lingala 5 0 10 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0
Macedonian 25 25 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0
Maltese 40 40 0 0
Mandarin 145 135 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 50 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 145 145 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 95 90 0 0
Polish 1,020 1,015 5 0
Portuguese 270 265 5 0
Romanian 100 100 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0
Russian 270 260 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 385 385 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 85 80 0 0
Sindhi 25 25 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 35 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Slovak 125 120 0 0
Slovenian 140 140 0 0
Somali 30 35 0 0
Spanish 1,380 1,340 30 5
Swahili 60 45 10 0
Swedish 35 30 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 495 495 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 45 50 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 35 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 70 65 0 0
Ukrainian 525 525 0 0
Urdu 200 200 0 0
Vietnamese 135 135 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 305 290 10 0
Multiple responses 725 545 90 95
English and French 100 10 5 90
English and non-official language 145 90 50 5
French and non-official language 475 445 35 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 5 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 386,520 370,745 12,175 1,015
English 370,745 370,740 0 0
French 12,175 0 12,170 0
English and French 1,020 0 0 1,015
Neither English nor French 2,590 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 12,680 0 12,175 510
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 3.3 0.0 100.0 50.2

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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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