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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 LambtonFootnote 1
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 2 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 124,875 122,100 2,350 165
0 to 4 years 6,370 6,275 45 5
5 to 9 years 6,435 6,350 50 25
10 to 14 years 6,865 6,765 75 20
15 to 19 years 8,365 8,265 75 20
20 to 24 years 7,910 7,830 70 5
25 to 29 years 6,835 6,770 60 5
30 to 34 years 6,445 6,330 100 5
35 to 39 years 6,575 6,475 90 10
40 to 44 years 7,300 7,150 135 10
45 to 49 years 9,260 9,085 165 10
50 to 54 years 10,575 10,340 210 10
55 to 59 years 10,140 9,895 230 0
60 to 64 years 9,190 8,890 285 10
65 to 69 years 7,070 6,780 265 5
70 to 74 years 5,305 5,100 170 10
75 to 79 years 4,430 4,200 175 10
80 to 84 years 3,330 3,210 90 5
85 years and over 2,485 2,400 55 5
Median ageFootnote 3 44.5 44.2 57.2 31.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 105,205 102,710 2,180 110
Married or living with a common-law partner 63,800 62,180 1,440 65
Married (and not separated) 55,410 53,980 1,255 60
Living common law 8,385 8,200 180 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 41,410 40,530 745 50
Single (never legally married) 25,115 24,790 275 35
Separated 3,255 3,170 80 5
Divorced 5,890 5,700 180 0
Widowed 7,145 6,875 210 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 124,875 122,100 2,350 170
English only 116,850 116,845 0 0
French only 85 0 85 0
English and French 7,670 5,240 2,265 170
Neither English nor French 275 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 124,870 122,100 2,350 165
Single responses 123,950 121,270 2,310 115
English 112,840 112,835 0 0
French 2,575 295 2,280 0
Non-official languages 8,530 8,140 20 110
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 45 40 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 40 40 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 8,385 7,995 20 110
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 190 165 5 10
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 25 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 0
Burmese 40 40 0 0
Cantonese 85 80 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 245 220 0 5
Creoles 10 5 0 10
Croatian 85 85 0 0
Czech 100 100 0 0
Danish 45 50 0 0
Dutch 1,755 1,745 0 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 60 60 0 0
Flemish 85 85 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 975 950 5 10
Greek 200 195 0 0
Gujarati 275 250 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 90 85 0 0
Hungarian 125 125 0 5
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 1,110 1,045 0 10
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 115 105 0 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 15 20 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 30 25 0 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0
Mandarin 50 45 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 85 80 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 35 0 0
Polish 415 405 0 0
Portuguese 415 375 0 5
Romanian 50 50 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 90 75 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 45 45 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 170 170 5 0
Slovenian 20 25 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 405 355 5 25
Swahili 10 0 0 10
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 170 170 5 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 25 0 0
Telugu 15 20 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0
Turkish 15 20 0 0
Ukrainian 125 125 0 0
Urdu 165 155 0 5
Vietnamese 50 50 0 5
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 110 105 0 0
Multiple responses 925 825 40 50
English and French 325 260 15 50
English and non-official language 535 535 0 0
French and non-official language 50 20 30 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 124,875 122,100 2,350 165
Single responses 123,655 121,060 2,245 95
English 120,410 118,825 1,585 0
French 700 50 645 0
Non-official languages 2,545 2,180 10 95
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 2,520 2,155 15 95
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 95 70 0 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 35 35 0 0
Cantonese 50 45 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 145 125 0 5
Creoles 10 0 0 5
Croatian 15 15 0 5
Czech 25 20 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 140 130 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 255 235 0 5
Greek 95 90 0 0
Gujarati 150 130 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 75 70 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 5
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 310 250 5 10
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 80 70 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 35 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 5
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 35 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 100 95 0 0
Portuguese 160 120 5 5
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 20 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0 5
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 200 150 0 20
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 65 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 110 100 0 5
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 20 20 0 0
Multiple responses 1,215 1,040 105 70
English and French 190 60 80 50
English and non-official language 970 970 5 0
French and non-official language 20 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 35 5 5 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 124,875 122,100 2,350 165
None 118,715 116,920 1,445 120
Single responses 6,040 5,075 895 45
English 1,465 1,070 330 35
French 1,560 1,020 540 0
Non-official languages 3,015 2,985 30 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 170 170 0 5
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 165 165 0 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 2,795 2,770 25 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 40 40 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 10 5 0
Bengali 15 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 25 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 70 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 35 35 0 0
Danish 20 25 0 0
Dutch 530 530 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 255 255 5 0
Greek 110 105 0 0
Gujarati 55 55 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 50 50 0 0
Hungarian 35 35 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 430 425 5 0
Japanese 15 10 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 20 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 140 140 0 0
Portuguese 155 160 0 0
Romanian 30 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 35 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 10 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 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 30 35 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 205 195 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 70 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 10 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 50 50 0 0
Multiple responses 120 105 10 5
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 35 30 5 0
French and non-official language 80 80 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 124,870 122,100 2,350 165
English 122,100 122,100 0 0
French 2,350 0 2,350 0
English and French 165 0 0 170
Neither English nor French 260 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 2,430 0 2,350 85
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.9 0.0 100.0 51.5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

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Footnote 2

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

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Footnote 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 8

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 9

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 13

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

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