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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 Collingwood
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 18,875 18,620 200 15
0 to 4 years 980 975 0 0
5 to 9 years 870 870 0 0
10 to 14 years 915 910 0 0
15 to 19 years 1,160 1,150 10 0
20 to 24 years 1,025 1,025 5 0
25 to 29 years 1,020 1,015 0 5
30 to 34 years 950 935 15 0
35 to 39 years 1,085 1,065 15 0
40 to 44 years 1,035 1,025 10 0
45 to 49 years 1,360 1,335 25 0
50 to 54 years 1,445 1,415 30 0
55 to 59 years 1,445 1,420 20 5
60 to 64 years 1,485 1,455 25 0
65 to 69 years 1,175 1,150 20 0
70 to 74 years 1,000 990 10 0
75 to 79 years 820 810 5 5
80 to 84 years 640 635 10 0
85 years and over 450 445 5 0
Median ageFootnote 3 46.5 46.3 54.9 57.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 16,110 15,865 200 10
Married or living with a common-law partner 9,140 8,975 135 5
Married (and not separated) 7,515 7,375 115 5
Living common law 1,620 1,600 20 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 6,970 6,890 60 5
Single (never legally married) 3,770 3,735 25 0
Separated 645 640 0 0
Divorced 1,265 1,240 25 0
Widowed 1,295 1,275 10 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 18,875 18,625 205 15
English only 17,740 17,740 0 0
French only 10 0 5 0
English and French 1,090 885 195 15
Neither English nor French 35 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 18,875 18,625 200 15
Single responses 18,725 18,485 200 5
English 17,360 17,360 0 0
French 225 30 195 0
Non-official languages 1,140 1,095 0 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 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 7 1,135 1,085 5 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 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 15 10 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 20 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 100 100 0 0
Estonian 20 15 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 235 235 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 100 90 0 5
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 70 70 5 0
Portuguese 30 30 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 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 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) 10 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 60 55 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 30 30 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 5 5 0 0
Multiple responses 145 140 0 5
English and French 40 35 0 5
English and non-official language 100 100 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 18,875 18,625 200 15
Single responses 18,700 18,460 190 10
English 18,385 18,225 160 0
French 40 10 35 0
Non-official languages 275 230 0 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 270 225 0 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 30 25 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 0 5 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 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) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 25 20 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 5 5 0 0
Multiple responses 175 165 10 5
English and French 20 10 10 5
English and non-official language 155 155 5 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 18,875 18,620 200 15
None 18,180 18,020 125 10
Single responses 670 590 75 5
English 125 95 25 5
French 125 80 45 0
Non-official languages 415 410 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 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 15 410 405 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 25 25 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 85 85 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 45 40 5 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 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) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 0
Portuguese 20 20 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 0 0 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. 5 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 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 35 30 5 5
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 15 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 0 5 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 25 20 0 5
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 15 20 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 18,875 18,625 200 15
English 18,625 18,625 0 0
French 205 0 200 0
English and French 15 0 0 10
Neither English nor French 35 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 210 0 200 5
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.1 0.0 100.0 33.3

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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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Footnote 8

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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