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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 VictoriaFootnote 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 339,725 330,860 5,500 825
0 to 4 years 14,775 14,350 125 40
5 to 9 years 14,650 14,425 125 55
10 to 14 years 15,750 15,515 135 85
15 to 19 years 19,045 18,775 175 85
20 to 24 years 23,390 23,035 265 55
25 to 29 years 23,545 23,085 360 45
30 to 34 years 21,460 20,960 410 40
35 to 39 years 20,275 19,785 390 35
40 to 44 years 22,225 21,610 440 70
45 to 49 years 25,580 24,860 505 65
50 to 54 years 27,180 26,455 505 55
55 to 59 years 26,770 25,970 605 40
60 to 64 years 25,140 24,455 430 35
65 to 69 years 17,870 17,280 325 30
70 to 74 years 12,790 12,255 225 20
75 to 79 years 10,855 10,350 205 25
80 to 84 years 8,965 8,560 130 30
85 years and over 9,460 9,140 140 20
Median ageFootnote 4 43.8 43.6 48.2 37.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 294,555 286,580 5,115 640
Married or living with a common-law partner 164,645 159,655 3,145 360
Married (and not separated) 134,495 130,345 2,340 330
Living common law 30,155 29,305 800 30
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 129,905 126,925 1,975 285
Single (never legally married) 80,340 78,920 1,080 200
Separated 8,090 7,860 150 20
Divorced 24,570 23,955 490 40
Widowed 16,905 16,190 260 25
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 339,725 330,855 5,505 825
English only 303,850 303,850 0 0
French only 180 0 185 0
English and French 33,055 26,915 5,320 825
Neither English nor French 2,635 90 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 339,725 330,860 5,505 825
Single responses 335,645 327,100 5,355 650
English 288,235 288,225 10 0
French 5,735 490 5,245 0
Non-official languages 41,670 38,390 100 650
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 45 45 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 40,940 37,675 100 645
African languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0
Afrikaans 130 125 5 0
Akan (Twi) 30 30 0 0
Albanian 120 110 0 0
Amharic 100 95 0 5
Arabic 835 700 15 70
Armenian 40 35 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 50 55 0 0
Bengali 120 115 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 230 230 0 5
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 100 90 0 5
Burmese 20 15 0 0
Cantonese 2,925 2,375 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 4,105 3,415 0 35
Creoles 35 25 5 0
Croatian 465 455 0 5
Czech 330 325 0 0
Danish 505 495 0 5
Dutch 2,025 1,980 0 45
Estonian 55 55 0 0
Finnish 285 280 0 0
Flemish 45 45 0 0
Fukien 30 30 0 0
German 4,465 4,360 5 80
Greek 310 300 0 0
Gujarati 120 115 0 5
Hakka 10 10 0 0
Hebrew 75 70 0 5
Hindi 335 325 0 0
Hungarian 705 695 5 10
Ilocano 100 105 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Italian 1,090 1,055 5 20
Japanese 1,175 1,110 0 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 125 105 5 5
Korean 1,290 1,160 0 25
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 20 20 0 0
Latvian 60 60 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 45 50 0 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0
Malay 105 100 0 0
Malayalam 40 40 0 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0
Mandarin 1,950 1,735 0 15
Marathi 25 25 0 0
Nepali 25 25 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0
Norwegian 220 220 0 0
Oromo 50 45 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 3,710 3,260 0 25
Pashto 35 35 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 685 630 5 20
Polish 1,140 1,095 0 25
Portuguese 1,270 1,195 0 20
Romanian 245 215 0 25
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 880 810 5 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 15 15 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 150 140 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 80 70 0 0
Shanghainese 20 20 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 60 35 0 0
Sindhi 30 30 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 60 60 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Slovak 140 140 0 5
Slovenian 85 80 0 0
Somali 40 40 0 0
Spanish 2,445 2,265 15 80
Swahili 65 60 5 0
Swedish 190 180 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 2,120 2,110 0 0
Taiwanese 80 75 0 0
Tamil 85 85 0 0
Telugu 40 35 0 0
Thai 210 205 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0
Tigrigna 60 55 0 0
Turkish 155 150 0 0
Ukrainian 655 640 0 5
Urdu 165 150 0 0
Vietnamese 870 805 0 10
Yiddish 35 35 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 690 670 5 5
Multiple responses 4,080 3,760 150 175
English and French 900 720 35 150
English and non-official language 2,900 2,895 0 0
French and non-official language 180 70 110 0
English, French and non-official language 105 75 0 30
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 339,725 330,860 5,505 825
Single responses 333,820 325,450 5,230 610
English 315,515 311,925 3,590 0
French 1,730 125 1,605 0
Non-official languages 16,585 13,400 35 605
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 12 16,470 13,305 35 605
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 65 60 0 5
Amharic 35 30 0 0
Arabic 460 345 5 60
Armenian 25 20 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 65 60 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 50 50 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 35 30 0 5
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 1,740 1,175 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,450 1,770 0 30
Creoles 15 10 0 5
Croatian 150 140 0 5
Czech 75 70 0 5
Danish 35 25 0 5
Dutch 180 135 0 45
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 45 40 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0
German 530 445 0 70
Greek 80 75 0 5
Gujarati 30 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 10 0 5
Hindi 140 125 0 5
Hungarian 130 120 5 5
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 190 155 5 15
Japanese 420 365 0 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 45 0 5
Korean 935 800 5 25
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,385 1,165 0 20
Marathi 15 15 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0
Oromo 30 30 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 2,190 1,740 0 25
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 370 315 0 20
Polish 310 270 0 20
Portuguese 430 350 0 15
Romanian 105 75 0 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 395 320 0 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 65 55 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 30 20 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 100 65 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 20 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 35 25 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 20 20 0 0
Spanish 1,010 830 5 85
Swahili 25 25 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 800 790 0 5
Taiwanese 30 25 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 70 60 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0
Tigrigna 25 20 0 0
Turkish 50 45 0 0
Ukrainian 90 75 0 5
Urdu 100 85 0 5
Vietnamese 520 455 0 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 115 100 0 0
Multiple responses 5,900 5,405 275 220
English and French 510 125 220 160
English and non-official language 5,230 5,220 5 0
French and non-official language 35 20 20 0
English, French and non-official language 125 45 25 60
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 339,725 330,860 5,505 825
None 311,580 305,835 3,010 410
Single responses 27,570 24,555 2,435 365
English 7,880 6,555 860 320
French 4,190 2,725 1,450 15
Non-official languages 15,505 15,270 130 35
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 40 40 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 30 30 0 5
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 15 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 15,025 14,800 125 30
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 100 100 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 30 30 0 0
Amharic 45 45 0 0
Arabic 275 250 20 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 30 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 65 65 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 40 40 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 860 850 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 960 945 5 0
Creoles 25 20 0 0
Croatian 190 190 0 0
Czech 130 125 0 0
Danish 170 170 5 0
Dutch 605 605 0 0
Estonian 20 20 0 0
Finnish 100 95 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 1,630 1,625 5 0
Greek 145 145 0 0
Gujarati 55 55 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 70 70 0 0
Hindi 200 190 0 0
Hungarian 230 230 0 5
Ilocano 25 25 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 480 470 5 0
Japanese 810 805 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0
Korean 265 260 5 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 10 15 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 45 45 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 555 535 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Norwegian 70 70 0 0
Oromo 10 10 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,260 1,260 0 0
Pashto 20 20 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 225 220 5 0
Polish 355 350 0 0
Portuguese 525 520 5 5
Romanian 85 85 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 315 305 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 50 50 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 35 35 0 0
Shanghainese 10 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 85 85 0 0
Sindhi 20 20 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slovak 50 50 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0
Somali 25 25 0 0
Spanish 1,690 1,645 35 5
Swahili 40 35 0 0
Swedish 85 85 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 925 920 5 0
Taiwanese 30 25 0 0
Tamil 60 55 0 0
Telugu 15 10 0 0
Thai 110 110 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 60 60 0 0
Ukrainian 115 115 0 0
Urdu 60 60 0 0
Vietnamese 245 240 0 0
Yiddish 10 15 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 440 435 5 0
Multiple responses 580 465 60 50
English and French 60 5 5 45
English and non-official language 135 110 20 5
French and non-official language 380 350 30 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 339,725 330,855 5,505 825
English 330,860 330,860 0 0
French 5,505 0 5,505 0
English and French 825 0 0 825
Neither English nor French 2,540 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 5,915 0 5,505 410
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 1.7 0.0 100.0 49.7

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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

Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.

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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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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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