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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 Sarnia, 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 71,575 69,460 1,760 145
0 to 4 years 3,620 3,550 30 5
5 to 9 years 3,395 3,330 40 20
10 to 14 years 3,735 3,660 65 20
15 to 19 years 4,690 4,610 60 20
20 to 24 years 4,940 4,875 60 5
25 to 29 years 4,230 4,185 50 0
30 to 34 years 3,720 3,640 65 5
35 to 39 years 3,790 3,715 65 5
40 to 44 years 4,160 4,045 105 5
45 to 49 years 5,240 5,100 125 10
50 to 54 years 5,960 5,790 150 5
55 to 59 years 5,710 5,535 170 5
60 to 64 years 5,035 4,825 200 10
65 to 69 years 3,880 3,665 190 10
70 to 74 years 3,030 2,860 130 5
75 to 79 years 2,675 2,495 140 5
80 to 84 years 2,110 2,010 65 5
85 years and over 1,650 1,575 50 5
Median ageFootnote 2 44.4 43.9 56.8 37.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 60,825 58,915 1,625 105
Married or living with a common-law partner 34,705 33,540 1,005 60
Married (and not separated) 29,580 28,540 885 60
Living common law 5,130 5,000 120 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 26,120 25,375 620 45
Single (never legally married) 15,435 15,150 235 35
Separated 2,110 2,045 60 5
Divorced 4,035 3,880 145 0
Widowed 4,530 4,300 180 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 71,575 69,455 1,760 145
English only 65,985 65,990 0 0
French only 60 0 65 0
English and French 5,305 3,465 1,695 145
Neither English nor French 215 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 71,575 69,455 1,760 150
Single responses 70,870 68,835 1,720 100
English 62,935 62,930 5 0
French 1,900 200 1,700 0
Non-official languages 6,045 5,705 15 100
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 30 30 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 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 25 25 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 5,935 5,605 20 100
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 170 145 5 5
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 30 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 15 0 0
Burmese 40 35 5 0
Cantonese 75 70 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 220 200 0 5
Creoles 15 5 0 10
Croatian 65 65 0 0
Czech 60 60 0 0
Danish 25 30 0 0
Dutch 725 720 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 45 45 0 0
Flemish 20 25 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 450 440 0 5
Greek 185 175 0 0
Gujarati 255 235 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 85 85 0 0
Hungarian 105 105 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 1,000 935 5 15
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 75 70 0 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 15 0 0
Macedonian 10 15 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 30 25 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 45 40 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 80 75 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 330 320 0 0
Portuguese 345 310 0 5
Romanian 45 45 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 75 65 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 40 35 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 115 110 5 0
Slovenian 15 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 335 295 5 20
Swahili 10 0 5 5
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 150 150 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 25 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 100 100 0 0
Urdu 165 150 0 5
Vietnamese 50 50 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 75 75 0 0
Multiple responses 700 620 35 45
English and French 225 175 15 35
English and non-official language 420 425 0 0
French and non-official language 40 10 25 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 71,575 69,455 1,760 145
Single responses 70,575 68,610 1,670 85
English 68,035 66,900 1,140 0
French 555 35 520 0
Non-official languages 1,985 1,680 10 85
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 5 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 1,965 1,660 10 85
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 80 60 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 35 35 0 0
Cantonese 45 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 140 115 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 10
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 40 30 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 50 45 0 5
Greek 90 80 0 0
Gujarati 135 115 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 75 70 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 295 240 5 15
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 50 45 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 30 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 85 80 0 0
Portuguese 150 110 0 5
Romanian 20 10 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 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. 0 5 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 165 130 0 20
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 60 60 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0
Telugu 5 10 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 5 10 0 0
Urdu 105 100 0 5
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 15 15 0 0
Multiple responses 1,000 850 90 60
English and French 150 40 70 35
English and non-official language 795 795 5 0
French and non-official language 15 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 40 5 5 25
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 71,570 69,455 1,760 145
None 67,100 65,730 1,070 105
Single responses 4,380 3,650 680 35
English 1,125 825 255 35
French 1,145 740 405 0
Non-official languages 2,115 2,085 25 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 30 30 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 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 30 25 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 2,050 2,025 20 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 40 35 5 0
Armenian 10 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 25 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 65 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 225 225 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 135 135 0 0
Greek 95 90 0 0
Gujarati 50 50 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 50 50 0 0
Hungarian 30 30 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 390 380 5 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 10 15 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 110 110 0 0
Portuguese 120 125 0 0
Romanian 20 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 30 25 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 150 150 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 70 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 25 30 5 0
Multiple responses 90 80 5 5
English and French 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 25 25 5 0
French and non-official language 60 55 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 71,570 69,455 1,760 145
English 69,455 69,455 0 0
French 1,760 0 1,760 0
English and French 145 0 0 145
Neither English nor French 210 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,835 0 1,760 70
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.6 0.0 100.0 48.3

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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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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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Footnote 14

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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