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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 Sarnia
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 88,750 86,375 2,010 145
0 to 4 years 4,520 4,445 35 5
5 to 9 years 4,350 4,280 45 20
10 to 14 years 4,765 4,675 75 15
15 to 19 years 5,900 5,810 65 15
20 to 24 years 5,850 5,770 70 5
25 to 29 years 5,135 5,075 55 0
30 to 34 years 4,700 4,605 80 5
35 to 39 years 4,750 4,665 75 5
40 to 44 years 5,220 5,080 125 5
45 to 49 years 6,550 6,395 140 10
50 to 54 years 7,450 7,255 175 10
55 to 59 years 7,135 6,930 195 5
60 to 64 years 6,360 6,115 230 5
65 to 69 years 4,840 4,600 220 10
70 to 74 years 3,700 3,520 145 10
75 to 79 years 3,180 2,980 160 10
80 to 84 years 2,465 2,360 70 5
85 years and over 1,890 1,810 50 5
Median ageFootnote 3 44.2 43.8 56.7 37.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 75,120 72,975 1,855 105
Married or living with a common-law partner 44,105 42,755 1,185 60
Married (and not separated) 37,830 36,635 1,040 55
Living common law 6,275 6,125 145 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 31,010 30,210 675 45
Single (never legally married) 18,565 18,260 260 30
Separated 2,475 2,400 65 5
Divorced 4,655 4,485 160 5
Widowed 5,320 5,070 195 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 88,750 86,375 2,010 145
English only 82,330 82,330 0 0
French only 70 0 70 0
English and French 6,125 4,040 1,940 145
Neither English nor French 225 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 88,750 86,370 2,010 145
Single responses 87,980 85,685 1,975 105
English 79,255 79,255 5 0
French 2,180 225 1,955 0
Non-official languages 6,545 6,200 15 105
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 40 40 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 35 40 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 6,420 6,080 15 100
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 175 155 5 10
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 25 25 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 40 40 5 0
Cantonese 80 70 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 230 210 0 5
Creoles 15 5 5 5
Croatian 70 75 0 0
Czech 65 70 0 0
Danish 40 35 0 0
Dutch 885 875 5 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 45 50 0 0
Flemish 30 30 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 525 515 0 5
Greek 195 190 0 0
Gujarati 270 250 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 85 85 0 0
Hungarian 110 110 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 1,050 990 5 15
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 5
Korean 90 85 0 0
Kurdish 10 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0
Macedonian 10 15 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0
Maltese 10 5 0 0
Mandarin 45 40 0 0
Marathi 25 25 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) 85 75 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 345 340 0 0
Portuguese 375 340 0 5
Romanian 50 50 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 75 60 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Serbian 45 40 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 120 120 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 345 305 0 15
Swahili 10 0 0 10
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 155 155 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 25 20 0 0
Telugu 20 15 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 105 105 0 0
Urdu 165 155 0 5
Vietnamese 50 50 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 85 80 0 5
Multiple responses 770 685 40 45
English and French 260 205 10 40
English and non-official language 455 455 0 0
French and non-official language 45 15 30 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 88,750 86,375 2,010 150
Single responses 87,700 85,480 1,915 85
English 84,995 83,670 1,325 0
French 620 40 580 0
Non-official languages 2,085 1,770 10 85
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 0 0
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 11 2,065 1,755 10 85
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 75 60 0 10
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 35 35 0 0
Cantonese 45 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 140 115 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 10
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 55 50 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 70 65 0 5
Greek 95 85 0 0
Gujarati 150 125 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 75 75 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 5
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 305 245 5 15
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 55 50 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0
Macedonian 5 10 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 25 0 0
Marathi 5 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) 30 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 90 80 0 5
Portuguese 155 115 0 5
Romanian 15 15 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 15 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 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 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 165 130 0 20
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 65 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 20 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 5 10 0 0
Urdu 105 95 0 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 20 15 0 0
Multiple responses 1,050 890 95 65
English and French 160 50 75 40
English and non-official language 835 835 5 0
French and non-official language 20 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 35 10 5 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 88,750 86,375 2,015 145
None 83,775 82,240 1,225 105
Single responses 4,885 4,050 780 35
English 1,210 865 290 35
French 1,345 875 465 0
Non-official languages 2,330 2,305 25 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 80 80 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 80 80 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 2,220 2,195 25 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 40 40 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 10 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 20 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 65 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 25 20 0 0
Czech 25 20 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 275 275 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 155 150 0 0
Greek 105 105 0 0
Gujarati 55 50 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 50 50 0 0
Hungarian 35 35 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 415 410 5 0
Japanese 10 5 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 20 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 15 0 0
Polish 120 120 0 0
Portuguese 130 130 0 0
Romanian 20 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 25 30 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 165 165 5 0
Swahili 0 0 5 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 65 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 25 0 0
Urdu 30 35 0 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 30 30 0 0
Multiple responses 100 85 5 5
English and French 0 0 0 5
English and non-official language 25 20 0 0
French and non-official language 70 60 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 88,745 86,375 2,010 145
English 86,370 86,375 0 0
French 2,010 0 2,015 0
English and French 145 0 0 145
Neither English nor French 220 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 2,085 0 2,010 75
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 2.3 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

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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Footnote 17

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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