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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: First Official Language Spoken (7), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2003 Representation Order), 2011 Census

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This table details first official language spoken , detailed language spoken most often at home , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Whitby - Oshawa
Detailed language spoken most often at home (232) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 145,105 141,325 2,525 460 795 2,755 1.9
Single responses 141,825 138,345 2,380 305 795 2,530 1.8
English 133,755 132,370 1,385 0 0 1,385 1.0
French 1,025 55 975 0 0 970 94.6
Non-official languages 7,040 5,920 20 300 795 170 2.4
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages 1,500 1,185 10 100 205 60 4.0
Italian 600 490 5 15 95 5 0.8
Portuguese 220 185 0 10 30 5 2.3
Romanian 155 90 5 45 15 25 16.1
Spanish 520 430 0 35 60 20 3.8
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 125 115 0 10 5 5 4.0
Dutch 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 75 70 0 0 0 5 6.7
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 1,025 895 0 55 80 25 2.4
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Bulgarian 20 15 0 5 0 5 25.0
Croatian 60 45 0 0 5 0 0.0
Czech 20 20 0 5 0 0 0.0
Macedonian 135 130 0 0 5 0 0.0
Polish 415 380 0 15 20 5 1.2
Russian 120 95 0 10 20 5 4.2
Serbian 95 70 0 10 10 5 5.3
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 30 20 0 5 0 0 0.0
Slovenian 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ukrainian 105 90 0 10 5 5 4.8
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Greek 170 155 0 5 15 0 0.0
Armenian 30 20 0 5 5 5 16.7
Albanian 15 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 115 110 0 0 10 0 0.0
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Finnish 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 105 95 0 0 10 5 4.8
Turkic languages 25 20 0 0 10 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 25 20 0 0 10 0 0.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages 310 245 0 30 30 20 6.5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Somali 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Semitic languages 305 240 0 35 30 20 6.6
Amharic 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Arabic 255 195 5 30 25 15 5.9
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Maltese 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 1,600 1,390 0 45 165 25 1.6
Indo-Aryan languages 1,100 990 0 20 95 10 0.9
Bengali 65 60 0 0 0 0 0.0
Gujarati 155 130 0 0 20 5 3.2
Hindi 85 80 0 0 10 0 0.0
Konkani 10 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 145 125 0 0 20 5 3.4
Sindhi 25 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 580 525 0 10 45 5 0.9
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Iranian languages 495 395 0 25 75 10 2.0
Kurdish 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pashto 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 455 355 0 25 70 10 2.2
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0 5 50.0
Dravidian languages 375 340 0 15 25 10 2.7
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malayalam 25 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Tamil 315 290 0 10 20 5 1.6
Telugu 30 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 25 20 0 5 0 0 0.0
Korean 145 120 0 0 25 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,015 820 0 15 185 5 0.5
Chinese languages 1,005 810 0 15 185 5 0.5
Cantonese 275 205 0 0 70 0 0.0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 330 270 0 5 50 0 0.0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Chinese, n.o.s. 400 330 0 0 60 0 0.0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai languages 10 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Thai 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 120 100 0 0 20 0 0.0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Vietnamese 115 95 0 5 20 5 4.3
Malayo-Polynesian languages 290 285 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 5 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Malay 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 275 265 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 40 25 5 5 5 5 12.5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bantu languages 25 20 0 10 0 5 20.0
Lingala 0 0 5 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Swahili 10 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0 5 5 not applicable ...
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Creoles 25 10 5 5 5 5 20.0
Non-verbal languages 45 35 0 0 10 0 0.0
American Sign Language 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 15 0 0 10 0 0.0
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Multiple responses 3,285 2,980 145 160 0 225 6.8
English and French 275 65 115 95 0 165 60.0
English and non-official language 2,895 2,885 10 0 0 5 0.2
French and non-official language 25 5 15 0 0 15 60.0
English, French and non-official language 90 20 5 65 0 40 44.4

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too unreliable to be published

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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 2

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-XCB2011040.

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