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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 Division No. 14Footnote 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 36,830 36,205 545 10
0 to 4 years 2,275 2,255 5 0
5 to 9 years 2,255 2,245 5 5
10 to 14 years 2,455 2,450 5 5
15 to 19 years 2,550 2,525 25 5
20 to 24 years 1,750 1,725 20 0
25 to 29 years 1,705 1,680 15 0
30 to 34 years 1,740 1,720 10 0
35 to 39 years 1,980 1,960 10 0
40 to 44 years 2,075 2,050 20 0
45 to 49 years 2,680 2,630 45 0
50 to 54 years 2,750 2,695 55 0
55 to 59 years 2,785 2,715 65 0
60 to 64 years 2,510 2,455 50 0
65 to 69 years 2,040 1,995 50 0
70 to 74 years 1,680 1,630 45 0
75 to 79 years 1,355 1,310 45 0
80 to 84 years 1,170 1,130 40 0
85 years and over 1,075 1,035 35 0
Median ageFootnote 3 44.2 43.8 59.3 13.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 29,845 29,260 535 5
Married or living with a common-law partner 19,110 18,710 360 0
Married (and not separated) 16,895 16,520 340 0
Living common law 2,215 2,195 20 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 10,735 10,545 170 5
Single (never legally married) 6,295 6,210 70 0
Separated 640 625 15 0
Divorced 1,335 1,320 20 0
Widowed 2,470 2,390 65 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 36,825 36,205 545 10
English only 35,670 35,670 0 0
French only 5 0 5 0
English and French 1,080 530 540 10
Neither English nor French 70 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 36,830 36,205 545 10
Single responses 36,510 35,895 540 10
English 31,350 31,350 0 0
French 680 140 535 0
Non-official languages 4,480 4,400 0 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 2,325 2,320 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 2,080 2,070 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 240 240 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 2,130 2,065 0 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 40 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 10 15 0 0
Dutch 60 60 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 670 670 0 5
Greek 10 15 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 45 45 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 45 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 100 95 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 75 70 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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 0 0 0
Slovak 5 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 50 40 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 35 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 140 135 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 630 610 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 0 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 20 20 0 0
Multiple responses 320 310 5 0
English and French 55 50 5 0
English and non-official language 240 240 0 0
French and non-official language 20 20 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 36,825 36,205 545 10
Single responses 36,525 35,910 540 5
English 33,935 33,545 390 0
French 175 30 145 0
Non-official languages 2,410 2,335 0 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 1,800 1,785 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,730 1,725 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 65 65 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 595 525 0 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 185 180 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
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) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 5 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 30 20 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 85 80 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 95 80 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 305 295 5 0
English and French 10 5 5 0
English and non-official language 290 285 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 36,825 36,205 545 10
None 34,050 33,620 360 5
Single responses 2,750 2,555 185 0
English 1,665 1,590 70 0
French 180 65 115 0
Non-official languages 900 900 0 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 425 420 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 320 325 0 0
Dene 5 10 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 95 95 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 465 465 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 10 15 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 140 140 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 25 25 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 125 130 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 15 10 0 0
Multiple responses 35 30 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 20 25 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 36,830 36,205 545 10
English 36,205 36,205 0 0
French 545 0 545 0
English and French 10 0 0 10
Neither English nor French 70 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 550 0 545 5
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.5 0.0 100.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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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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Footnote 10

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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Footnote 14

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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