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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 St. Catharines, 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 129,115 125,030 2,740 440
0 to 4 years 6,280 6,070 45 25
5 to 9 years 6,220 6,115 65 25
10 to 14 years 7,020 6,885 70 60
15 to 19 years 8,525 8,355 85 75
20 to 24 years 9,270 9,115 110 35
25 to 29 years 8,065 7,925 110 20
30 to 34 years 7,115 6,955 120 25
35 to 39 years 7,270 7,080 135 25
40 to 44 years 8,185 7,980 150 25
45 to 49 years 9,990 9,680 245 15
50 to 54 years 9,765 9,420 255 25
55 to 59 years 9,065 8,740 245 20
60 to 64 years 8,720 8,350 290 15
65 to 69 years 6,930 6,595 250 15
70 to 74 years 5,440 5,135 200 5
75 to 79 years 4,655 4,395 155 10
80 to 84 years 3,690 3,465 130 10
85 years and over 2,905 2,745 75 5
Median ageFootnote 2 42.9 42.5 54.5 25.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 109,585 105,960 2,555 325
Married or living with a common-law partner 60,165 58,070 1,515 155
Married (and not separated) 51,195 49,400 1,245 140
Living common law 8,970 8,670 270 15
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 49,425 47,885 1,040 175
Single (never legally married) 30,035 29,430 420 140
Separated 4,270 4,125 120 15
Divorced 7,540 7,275 230 10
Widowed 7,575 7,065 280 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 129,115 125,030 2,735 435
English only 119,235 119,230 0 0
French only 115 0 115 0
English and French 8,815 5,765 2,620 435
Neither English nor French 945 35 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 129,110 125,030 2,735 435
Single responses 127,290 123,355 2,680 345
English 103,645 103,640 5 0
French 2,890 265 2,625 0
Non-official languages 20,755 19,450 55 345
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 10 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 20,575 19,275 50 350
African languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 15 0 0
Albanian 95 85 0 0
Amharic 20 20 0 0
Arabic 1,325 1,170 5 65
Armenian 190 170 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 5
Bengali 85 85 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0
Bosnian 115 105 0 0
Bulgarian 60 60 0 5
Burmese 5 0 0 5
Cantonese 180 165 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 785 715 5 5
Creoles 35 30 5 5
Croatian 230 225 0 0
Czech 150 145 0 0
Danish 75 75 0 0
Dutch 1,270 1,260 0 5
Estonian 55 55 0 0
Finnish 75 75 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 2,670 2,640 0 15
Greek 250 240 0 0
Gujarati 115 100 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 25 0 5
Hindi 100 100 0 0
Hungarian 400 380 0 10
Ilocano 35 35 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 2,550 2,375 5 15
Japanese 80 80 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 135 115 0 5
Korean 325 300 0 5
Kurdish 135 125 0 0
Lao 220 195 0 5
Latvian 55 50 0 0
Lingala 0 5 0 0
Lithuanian 65 65 0 0
Macedonian 30 25 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 30 25 0 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0
Mandarin 355 325 0 5
Marathi 15 15 0 0
Nepali 15 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 40 5 0
Norwegian 15 20 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 100 95 0 0
Pashto 30 25 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 175 170 0 0
Polish 1,930 1,815 0 40
Portuguese 220 205 5 5
Romanian 130 110 0 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 0 0
Russian 455 400 0 15
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Serbian 125 115 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 30 35 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Sindhi 15 15 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0
Slovak 165 170 0 0
Slovenian 185 185 0 0
Somali 55 55 0 0
Spanish 2,030 1,825 5 60
Swahili 55 50 0 0
Swedish 30 30 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 550 545 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 50 50 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0
Thai 35 30 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 85 80 0 0
Ukrainian 915 875 0 20
Urdu 270 260 0 0
Vietnamese 165 135 0 5
Yiddish 10 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 175 160 5 0
Multiple responses 1,820 1,680 55 90
English and French 400 315 10 75
English and non-official language 1,310 1,310 0 0
French and non-official language 70 25 45 0
English, French and non-official language 40 20 0 20
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 129,110 125,030 2,735 440
Single responses 126,045 122,215 2,585 335
English 116,525 114,800 1,725 0
French 895 50 845 0
Non-official languages 8,625 7,365 20 335
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 8,585 7,330 15 335
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 65 60 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 895 740 5 65
Armenian 85 70 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 50 50 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 85 80 0 5
Bulgarian 40 40 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 100 85 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 570 510 0 5
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 75 75 0 0
Czech 55 45 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 60 55 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 485 450 0 10
Greek 95 85 0 5
Gujarati 70 55 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 15 0 5
Hindi 50 45 0 0
Hungarian 110 95 0 5
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 785 610 5 10
Japanese 20 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 75 55 0 5
Korean 230 205 0 5
Kurdish 105 95 0 0
Lao 120 90 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 5
Macedonian 10 10 0 5
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 270 240 0 10
Marathi 15 10 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 30 0 0
Pashto 15 20 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 95 90 0 0
Polish 855 740 0 40
Portuguese 85 75 0 5
Romanian 55 35 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 5
Russian 270 215 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 65 55 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0
Slovenian 45 45 0 0
Somali 25 20 0 0
Spanish 1,330 1,125 0 60
Swahili 20 15 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 215 210 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 5
Telugu 10 5 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 35 25 0 0
Ukrainian 250 210 0 20
Urdu 155 145 0 0
Vietnamese 140 110 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 35 30 0 0
Multiple responses 3,065 2,815 150 100
English and French 260 65 120 80
English and non-official language 2,715 2,710 5 0
French and non-official language 20 10 10 0
English, French and non-official language 65 30 15 25
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 129,110 125,035 2,740 435
None 116,610 114,010 1,560 210
Single responses 12,230 10,835 1,140 175
English 4,105 3,495 405 155
French 1,600 910 680 15
Non-official languages 6,520 6,430 55 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 15 15 0 0
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 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 6,365 6,275 55 15
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Afrikaans 10 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 10 15 0 0
Arabic 380 375 5 0
Armenian 60 60 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 15 20 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 55 55 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 145 140 0 0
Creoles 40 40 0 0
Croatian 85 90 0 0
Czech 45 45 0 0
Danish 30 25 0 0
Dutch 405 400 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 755 755 0 0
Greek 115 115 0 0
Gujarati 30 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 50 45 0 0
Hungarian 115 120 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,000 990 0 5
Japanese 40 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 45 45 0 0
Korean 60 65 0 0
Kurdish 15 15 0 0
Lao 50 50 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 10 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 80 75 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 40 5 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 40 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 45 45 0 0
Polish 550 550 5 0
Portuguese 90 95 5 0
Romanian 30 30 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 115 115 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 40 40 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slovak 45 45 0 0
Slovenian 60 60 0 0
Somali 25 25 0 0
Spanish 630 610 10 0
Swahili 30 25 5 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 215 210 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 20 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 40 30 0 5
Ukrainian 255 255 0 0
Urdu 70 70 0 0
Vietnamese 25 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 145 140 0 0
Multiple responses 270 185 35 45
English and French 55 5 5 50
English and non-official language 55 25 25 0
French and non-official language 160 160 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 129,115 125,030 2,740 435
English 125,030 125,030 0 0
French 2,740 0 2,735 0
English and French 435 0 0 435
Neither English nor French 910 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,950 0 2,735 215
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.3 0.0 99.8 49.4

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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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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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