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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), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Halifax, RGM
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 1 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 386,205 374,245 9,775 1,045
0 to 4 years 19,955 19,225 340 75
5 to 9 years 19,145 18,695 340 80
10 to 14 years 20,465 20,005 310 135
15 to 19 years 23,805 23,335 355 90
20 to 24 years 31,165 30,480 565 90
25 to 29 years 28,305 27,515 675 85
30 to 34 years 25,850 24,915 815 75
35 to 39 years 26,390 25,465 790 90
40 to 44 years 27,680 26,730 800 80
45 to 49 years 32,935 31,800 1,010 50
50 to 54 years 31,355 30,320 925 40
55 to 59 years 27,000 26,170 715 45
60 to 64 years 23,735 22,985 665 30
65 to 69 years 16,610 16,050 480 35
70 to 74 years 11,650 11,195 380 20
75 to 79 years 8,810 8,450 275 15
80 to 84 years 6,110 5,890 170 10
85 years and over 5,235 5,030 170 5
Median ageFootnote 2 39.6 39.5 44.4 28.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 326,635 316,325 8,790 750
Married or living with a common-law partner 185,045 178,225 5,845 440
Married (and not separated) 151,150 145,600 4,630 400
Living common law 33,895 32,625 1,215 35
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 141,590 138,105 2,945 315
Single (never legally married) 97,755 95,605 1,805 260
Separated 9,275 9,020 220 15
Divorced 19,255 18,725 490 20
Widowed 15,305 14,750 425 25
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 386,205 374,245 9,780 1,045
English only 338,250 338,250 0 0
French only 380 0 380 0
English and French 46,385 35,945 9,395 1,045
Neither English nor French 1,190 55 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 386,205 374,250 9,780 1,045
Single responses 382,530 371,085 9,560 760
English 348,520 348,510 5 0
French 10,160 750 9,405 0
Non-official languages 23,860 21,820 145 760
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 75 75 0 5
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 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 60 55 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 23,380 21,385 145 740
African languages, n.i.e. 65 60 0 0
Afrikaans 45 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 40 45 0 0
Albanian 240 215 0 5
Amharic 130 125 0 5
Arabic 5,175 4,560 55 310
Armenian 45 40 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 70 65 5 5
Bengali 325 310 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 60 60 0 0
Bosnian 80 80 0 0
Bulgarian 35 30 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 465 390 5 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,195 2,015 0 20
Creoles 40 35 5 0
Croatian 170 165 0 5
Czech 125 115 5 5
Danish 100 95 0 0
Dutch 515 500 0 20
Estonian 30 30 0 0
Finnish 45 40 0 0
Flemish 20 20 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0
German 1,250 1,185 5 45
Greek 665 625 0 5
Gujarati 85 85 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 65 65 0 0
Hindi 435 425 0 0
Hungarian 150 145 0 10
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0
Italian 590 570 5 10
Japanese 230 210 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 670 610 0 10
Kurdish 75 65 0 0
Lao 5 10 0 0
Latvian 35 35 0 0
Lingala 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0
Malay 50 50 0 0
Malayalam 95 100 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 805 750 0 10
Marathi 25 25 0 0
Nepali 210 115 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 95 80 5 0
Norwegian 80 75 0 5
Oromo 35 20 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 300 280 0 0
Pashto 60 60 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 1,125 1,030 0 35
Polish 580 545 0 20
Portuguese 280 260 5 10
Romanian 140 105 0 25
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 5 5
Russian 695 630 0 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Serbian 100 90 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 105 100 0 0
Shanghainese 10 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 60 40 0 0
Sindhi 15 10 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 90 85 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 90 85 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0
Somali 35 40 0 0
Spanish 1,130 1,000 15 65
Swahili 65 50 5 5
Swedish 45 45 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 915 900 0 0
Taiwanese 35 30 0 0
Tamil 200 195 0 0
Telugu 115 115 0 0
Thai 45 45 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 55 50 0 0
Turkish 250 230 0 10
Ukrainian 150 140 0 5
Urdu 400 380 0 5
Vietnamese 375 340 5 0
Yiddish 20 20 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 405 360 5 15
Multiple responses 3,675 3,165 220 290
English and French 1,465 1,120 90 255
English and non-official language 1,895 1,895 0 0
French and non-official language 215 85 130 0
English, French and non-official language 100 65 5 30
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 386,205 374,250 9,775 1,045
Single responses 381,265 370,115 9,340 675
English 365,300 359,415 5,885 0
French 3,660 270 3,390 0
Non-official languages 12,305 10,435 65 675
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 10 5 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 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 12,130 10,300 60 660
African languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 120 95 0 5
Amharic 60 55 0 0
Arabic 3,030 2,475 30 265
Armenian 15 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 200 185 0 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 45 40 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 260 185 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,590 1,420 0 15
Creoles 25 20 0 0
Croatian 60 60 0 5
Czech 35 30 0 5
Danish 10 10 0 5
Dutch 50 35 0 20
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 250 200 0 40
Greek 250 215 0 10
Gujarati 45 40 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 20 0 5
Hindi 185 175 0 0
Hungarian 55 45 0 10
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Italian 140 125 0 5
Japanese 105 90 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 470 410 0 10
Kurdish 60 45 0 5
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 5
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 0
Malayalam 35 30 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 605 545 0 5
Marathi 15 15 0 5
Nepali 200 105 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Norwegian 20 15 0 5
Oromo 20 10 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 140 125 0 5
Pashto 30 25 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 900 805 5 30
Polish 185 155 0 15
Portuguese 90 70 5 5
Romanian 75 40 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5
Russian 455 395 0 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 50 45 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 45 35 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 85 60 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 5
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 15 0 0
Spanish 575 435 15 70
Swahili 20 10 0 5
Swedish 5 5 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 410 400 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 105 95 0 0
Telugu 50 45 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 25 25 0 0
Turkish 135 120 0 10
Ukrainian 15 10 0 5
Urdu 220 190 0 5
Vietnamese 230 195 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 165 125 5 10
Multiple responses 4,945 4,130 440 370
English and French 830 185 350 295
English and non-official language 3,885 3,865 20 0
French and non-official language 90 40 55 0
English, French and non-official language 140 50 15 70
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 386,205 374,250 9,780 1,045
None 361,275 354,775 4,935 565
Single responses 24,350 19,050 4,770 415
English 7,935 5,585 1,950 325
French 7,680 4,960 2,685 30
Non-official languages 8,735 8,500 135 60
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 85 80 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 70 65 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 8,325 8,115 120 55
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0
Albanian 90 85 0 0
Amharic 35 40 0 0
Arabic 1,705 1,640 40 25
Armenian 15 20 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 40 35 5 0
Bengali 80 80 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 5 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 35 30 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 155 150 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 365 365 0 0
Creoles 40 40 5 0
Croatian 55 50 0 0
Czech 35 35 0 0
Danish 30 35 0 0
Dutch 185 190 0 0
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 635 615 15 10
Greek 375 375 0 0
Gujarati 25 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 75 70 0 0
Hindi 265 265 0 0
Hungarian 60 60 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 285 275 10 0
Japanese 145 145 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 155 155 0 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 5 5 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0
Malayalam 40 45 0 0
Maltese 15 10 0 0
Mandarin 180 175 5 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 60 55 0 0
Norwegian 45 40 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 95 95 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 190 180 0 0
Polish 205 200 0 0
Portuguese 125 125 0 0
Romanian 45 45 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 185 185 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Serbian 35 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 45 40 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 105 105 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 45 40 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0
Spanish 725 695 25 5
Swahili 60 55 5 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 330 325 5 0
Taiwanese 15 10 0 0
Tamil 80 80 0 0
Telugu 35 35 0 0
Thai 15 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 0 0
Turkish 100 100 0 0
Ukrainian 45 45 0 0
Urdu 145 140 5 0
Vietnamese 85 80 0 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 330 310 5 5
Multiple responses 575 425 75 70
English and French 75 5 5 60
English and non-official language 150 105 40 5
French and non-official language 345 315 35 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 386,205 374,250 9,775 1,045
English 374,245 374,250 0 0
French 9,775 0 9,780 0
English and French 1,045 0 0 1,045
Neither English nor French 1,135 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 10,300 0 9,780 525
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.7 0.0 100.0 50.2

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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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Footnote 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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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Footnote 10

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 11

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 12

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 13

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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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 17

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 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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011053.

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