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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 Guelph, CY
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 121,085 117,780 1,565 370
0 to 4 years 7,390 7,115 50 10
5 to 9 years 7,050 6,945 45 40
10 to 14 years 7,100 7,005 45 50
15 to 19 years 7,970 7,845 70 55
20 to 24 years 9,280 9,150 80 25
25 to 29 years 9,025 8,900 90 10
30 to 34 years 8,465 8,265 140 20
35 to 39 years 8,490 8,280 135 25
40 to 44 years 8,765 8,545 120 25
45 to 49 years 9,520 9,260 160 15
50 to 54 years 8,865 8,575 170 30
55 to 59 years 7,470 7,190 145 15
60 to 64 years 6,270 6,035 105 20
65 to 69 years 4,530 4,330 80 10
70 to 74 years 3,450 3,275 55 10
75 to 79 years 2,970 2,820 40 10
80 to 84 years 2,520 2,410 30 0
85 years and over 1,940 1,850 10 5
Median ageFootnote 2 37.6 37.3 45.2 26.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 99,545 96,715 1,430 265
Married or living with a common-law partner 57,730 55,970 910 145
Married (and not separated) 48,600 47,035 745 130
Living common law 9,130 8,935 165 15
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 41,820 40,745 525 125
Single (never legally married) 27,950 27,460 310 105
Separated 3,055 2,975 50 0
Divorced 5,915 5,730 110 5
Widowed 4,900 4,580 55 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 121,085 117,780 1,565 370
English only 109,280 109,285 0 0
French only 50 0 50 0
English and French 10,360 8,475 1,520 370
Neither English nor French 1,395 30 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 121,085 117,780 1,570 370
Single responses 119,345 116,120 1,530 330
English 95,845 95,845 5 0
French 1,605 120 1,490 0
Non-official languages 21,885 20,155 35 330
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 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 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 6 21,385 19,700 35 325
African languages, n.i.e. 55 55 0 0
Afrikaans 20 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 25 20 0 0
Albanian 60 55 0 0
Amharic 120 110 0 0
Arabic 525 490 0 10
Armenian 55 50 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5
Bengali 215 205 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 65 65 0 0
Bosnian 85 85 0 0
Bulgarian 35 35 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 765 640 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,320 1,160 5 20
Creoles 25 20 0 0
Croatian 140 140 0 0
Czech 105 100 0 0
Danish 75 75 0 5
Dutch 765 760 0 5
Estonian 20 20 0 0
Finnish 35 35 0 0
Flemish 25 20 0 5
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 920 895 5 20
Greek 205 200 0 0
Gujarati 455 405 0 5
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 35 35 0 0
Hindi 240 235 0 5
Hungarian 935 895 0 5
Ilocano 25 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 5
Italian 2,320 2,205 5 10
Japanese 70 60 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 105 85 0 5
Korean 190 165 0 5
Kurdish 35 25 0 5
Lao 155 140 0 5
Latvian 30 30 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 30 25 0 0
Macedonian 35 35 0 0
Malay 55 50 0 0
Malayalam 75 75 0 0
Maltese 55 55 0 5
Mandarin 625 565 0 10
Marathi 40 40 0 5
Nepali 30 30 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,265 1,095 0 15
Pashto 145 135 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 805 720 0 10
Polish 1,290 1,230 0 20
Portuguese 325 310 0 5
Romanian 260 215 0 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 230 210 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 5 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Serbian 495 445 0 20
Serbo-Croatian 55 55 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0
Sindhi 30 30 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 95 90 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 65 60 0 0
Slovenian 45 40 0 0
Somali 45 30 0 0
Spanish 1,160 1,085 0 35
Swahili 55 30 15 10
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,045 1,040 0 5
Taiwanese 30 25 0 0
Tamil 220 210 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 40 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 25 30 0 0
Turkish 80 70 0 0
Ukrainian 220 210 0 0
Urdu 495 470 0 5
Vietnamese 1,460 1,205 0 10
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 495 450 0 5
Multiple responses 1,740 1,660 40 40
English and French 275 230 10 40
English and non-official language 1,395 1,395 0 0
French and non-official language 50 25 30 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 5 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 121,085 117,780 1,570 370
Single responses 117,810 114,635 1,495 315
English 105,850 104,845 1,000 0
French 505 30 475 0
Non-official languages 11,460 9,760 15 315
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 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 10 11,150 9,495 15 310
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 5
Akan (Twi) 5 10 0 0
Albanian 30 30 0 0
Amharic 75 70 0 0
Arabic 255 220 0 10
Armenian 35 20 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 130 120 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 55 55 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 500 365 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 945 790 0 20
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 55 45 0 0
Czech 40 35 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 5
Dutch 45 40 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 10 5 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 100 85 0 15
Greek 60 55 0 0
Gujarati 310 260 0 5
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 20 20 0 5
Hindi 145 130 0 5
Hungarian 485 440 5 5
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5
Italian 735 625 0 10
Japanese 30 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 70 45 0 5
Korean 135 110 0 0
Kurdish 15 10 0 0
Lao 90 75 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0
Mandarin 490 425 0 15
Marathi 25 25 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 925 755 0 15
Pashto 110 100 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 535 445 0 10
Polish 620 555 5 20
Portuguese 95 80 0 5
Romanian 145 100 5 25
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 175 150 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 340 290 0 20
Serbo-Croatian 35 30 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 5
Sindhi 10 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 55 55 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 35 25 0 0
Spanish 605 525 5 35
Swahili 25 10 0 10
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 425 415 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 170 160 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 25 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 25 20 0 0
Turkish 75 55 0 0
Ukrainian 65 50 0 0
Urdu 315 285 0 5
Vietnamese 1,190 935 0 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 305 270 0 5
Multiple responses 3,275 3,145 75 55
English and French 125 30 50 40
English and non-official language 3,105 3,095 10 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 35 10 10 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 121,085 117,780 1,570 370
None 106,945 104,795 795 155
Single responses 13,860 12,750 755 195
English 5,345 4,820 280 180
French 1,580 1,125 450 5
Non-official languages 6,930 6,805 25 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 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 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 6,790 6,670 25 10
African languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Afrikaans 20 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 20 15 0 0
Amharic 30 35 0 0
Arabic 205 200 0 0
Armenian 25 25 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0
Bengali 80 80 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 200 190 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 320 305 5 0
Creoles 15 15 0 0
Croatian 55 55 0 0
Czech 45 40 0 0
Danish 45 45 0 0
Dutch 215 215 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 15 20 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 395 395 5 0
Greek 125 120 0 0
Gujarati 105 100 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 200 190 0 5
Hungarian 225 225 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 855 850 5 0
Japanese 50 50 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 20 0 0
Korean 45 45 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 60 55 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 35 30 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0
Maltese 25 20 0 0
Mandarin 165 165 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 220 220 0 0
Pashto 35 35 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 200 195 0 0
Polish 380 375 0 5
Portuguese 170 165 0 5
Romanian 85 80 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 65 60 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 105 105 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Sindhi 5 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 35 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 585 580 5 0
Swahili 20 15 5 0
Swedish 10 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 390 390 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 65 65 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0
Ukrainian 50 50 0 5
Urdu 140 140 0 0
Vietnamese 280 260 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 135 125 0 0
Multiple responses 275 240 20 20
English and French 25 5 0 15
English and non-official language 105 95 10 0
French and non-official language 145 135 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 121,085 117,780 1,570 370
English 117,780 117,780 0 0
French 1,570 0 1,565 0
English and French 370 0 0 370
Neither English nor French 1,365 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,750 0 1,570 185
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.4 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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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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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