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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 BrantfordFootnote 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 133,915 132,015 1,200 150
0 to 4 years 7,950 7,875 20 5
5 to 9 years 7,990 7,935 35 15
10 to 14 years 8,550 8,500 30 20
15 to 19 years 9,395 9,355 25 10
20 to 24 years 8,365 8,320 35 5
25 to 29 years 7,915 7,850 50 5
30 to 34 years 7,960 7,850 75 15
35 to 39 years 8,330 8,230 80 5
40 to 44 years 8,950 8,835 80 5
45 to 49 years 10,560 10,415 105 10
50 to 54 years 10,450 10,265 145 10
55 to 59 years 9,635 9,465 125 5
60 to 64 years 8,410 8,210 135 15
65 to 69 years 6,000 5,860 90 10
70 to 74 years 4,640 4,525 65 0
75 to 79 years 3,725 3,610 45 5
80 to 84 years 2,830 2,720 45 10
85 years and over 2,270 2,190 25 5
Median ageFootnote 4 40.3 40.1 52.7 34.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 109,425 107,710 1,120 105
Married or living with a common-law partner 64,100 62,960 765 60
Married (and not separated) 53,230 52,240 635 55
Living common law 10,865 10,720 130 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 45,325 44,745 355 50
Single (never legally married) 28,350 28,140 155 35
Separated 4,005 3,950 45 5
Divorced 6,460 6,365 75 5
Widowed 6,505 6,295 80 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 133,915 132,015 1,200 145
English only 127,660 127,660 0 0
French only 35 0 35 0
English and French 5,620 4,310 1,165 150
Neither English nor French 600 45 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 133,920 132,020 1,200 145
Single responses 132,760 130,905 1,180 125
English 118,870 118,870 0 0
French 1,365 210 1,160 0
Non-official languages 12,520 11,825 20 125
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 25 30 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 15 15 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 12,045 11,360 15 120
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 40 40 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 270 240 5 10
Armenian 30 25 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 20 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 125 100 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 295 260 0 5
Creoles 80 70 0 10
Croatian 110 105 0 0
Czech 50 45 0 0
Danish 40 40 0 0
Dutch 1,095 1,095 0 5
Estonian 20 15 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 55 60 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 845 835 0 0
Greek 165 160 0 5
Gujarati 200 185 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 105 105 0 0
Hungarian 715 700 0 5
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Italian 1,345 1,270 5 10
Japanese 40 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 20 0 0
Korean 160 145 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 45 45 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 25 0 0
Macedonian 10 15 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 20 0 0
Maltese 60 55 0 0
Mandarin 90 75 0 0
Marathi 20 20 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 600 535 5 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 75 70 0 0
Polish 1,800 1,720 0 15
Portuguese 760 720 0 5
Romanian 145 120 0 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 85 75 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 115 105 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Slovak 90 90 0 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0
Somali 20 20 0 0
Spanish 455 375 0 10
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 10 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 300 300 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0
Telugu 45 45 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 30 25 0 0
Ukrainian 355 355 0 0
Urdu 250 240 0 0
Vietnamese 515 440 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 450 435 0 5
Multiple responses 1,155 1,115 20 25
English and French 210 185 5 20
English and non-official language 880 880 0 0
French and non-official language 50 35 15 0
English, French and non-official language 15 15 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 133,920 132,015 1,200 150
Single responses 132,125 130,320 1,145 110
English 127,030 126,165 865 0
French 300 25 270 0
Non-official languages 4,805 4,130 10 105
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 10 10 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 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 12 4,605 3,945 10 100
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 25 20 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 125 105 0 5
Armenian 5 0 0 5
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 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 70 50 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 190 160 0 0
Creoles 75 70 0 5
Croatian 20 20 0 0
Czech 25 20 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 105 105 0 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 95 90 0 0
Greek 60 50 5 0
Gujarati 135 120 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 70 65 0 0
Hungarian 160 145 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 395 320 0 10
Japanese 30 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 5 0 0
Korean 115 100 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 25 25 0 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 75 70 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 410 345 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 35 0 0
Polish 755 675 0 15
Portuguese 220 185 0 5
Romanian 65 45 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 35 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 40 30 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 20 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. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 35 30 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0
Spanish 240 165 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 105 105 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 25 25 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0
Ukrainian 60 55 0 5
Urdu 155 150 0 0
Vietnamese 405 335 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 190 175 0 5
Multiple responses 1,785 1,690 55 40
English and French 115 40 50 30
English and non-official language 1,645 1,645 5 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 133,915 132,020 1,200 145
None 126,380 125,030 745 70
Single responses 7,430 6,895 440 65
English 2,075 1,865 140 55
French 885 590 290 5
Non-official languages 4,470 4,440 15 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 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 25 25 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 4,095 4,055 10 10
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 105 100 5 0
Armenian 10 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 30 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 70 0 0
Creoles 20 20 0 0
Croatian 40 35 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 370 375 0 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 20 25 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 310 300 0 5
Greek 85 80 0 0
Gujarati 40 40 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 65 65 0 0
Hungarian 205 205 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 530 530 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 40 40 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 20 20 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 25 25 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 5 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) 160 160 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 0
Polish 585 580 0 0
Portuguese 330 330 0 0
Romanian 40 40 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 55 55 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 20 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 0 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 210 205 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 145 145 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0
Ukrainian 95 100 0 0
Urdu 65 65 0 0
Vietnamese 100 95 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 345 350 0 0
Multiple responses 110 90 10 10
English and French 10 0 0 5
English and non-official language 35 30 0 0
French and non-official language 70 65 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 133,915 132,015 1,200 145
English 132,015 132,015 0 0
French 1,200 0 1,200 0
English and French 145 0 0 145
Neither English nor French 555 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 1,275 0 1,200 75
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 1.0 0.0 100.0 51.7

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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

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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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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