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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. 17Footnote 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 61,315 59,420 880 35
0 to 4 years 6,300 5,600 30 10
5 to 9 years 5,605 5,445 20 0
10 to 14 years 5,395 5,350 35 0
15 to 19 years 5,485 5,430 50 0
20 to 24 years 4,225 4,195 20 5
25 to 29 years 4,220 4,170 35 0
30 to 34 years 4,005 3,935 50 5
35 to 39 years 4,035 3,955 55 0
40 to 44 years 3,915 3,840 65 5
45 to 49 years 4,165 4,065 85 5
50 to 54 years 3,720 3,610 105 0
55 to 59 years 3,015 2,930 85 0
60 to 64 years 2,435 2,365 65 0
65 to 69 years 1,800 1,725 60 0
70 to 74 years 1,345 1,290 35 5
75 to 79 years 840 780 40 0
80 to 84 years 485 450 15 0
85 years and over 315 290 15 0
Median ageFootnote 3 29.3 29.5 49.1 38.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 44,010 43,035 795 25
Married or living with a common-law partner 26,905 26,220 575 15
Married (and not separated) 20,075 19,500 475 15
Living common law 6,835 6,720 105 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 17,110 16,820 220 0
Single (never legally married) 13,375 13,215 120 5
Separated 860 845 15 0
Divorced 1,430 1,380 40 0
Widowed 1,450 1,380 45 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 61,315 59,425 880 35
English only 58,570 58,565 0 0
French only 35 0 40 0
English and French 1,705 835 835 35
Neither English nor French 1,010 20 10 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 61,320 59,420 880 35
Single responses 60,465 58,595 870 25
English 39,715 39,715 5 0
French 1,010 145 860 0
Non-official languages 19,740 18,735 5 25
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 9,000 8,925 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 8,025 7,970 0 5
Dene 970 950 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 10,535 9,610 0 20
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 135 125 0 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 20 15 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 45 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 10 15 0 0
Danish 10 15 0 0
Dutch 200 200 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 8,690 7,820 0 15
Greek 0 5 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 25 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 5 10 0 0
Japanese 5 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 75 70 0 0
Kurdish 0 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 25 20 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 45 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 75 75 0 0
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 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. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 35 35 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 45 40 0 0
Swahili 5 5 5 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 540 540 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 25 0 0
Ukrainian 250 250 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 205 200 0 0
Multiple responses 855 825 15 10
English and French 55 50 0 10
English and non-official language 625 625 0 0
French and non-official language 160 150 15 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 61,320 59,425 880 35
Single responses 60,190 58,330 865 20
English 47,245 46,700 540 0
French 335 25 305 0
Non-official languages 12,610 11,600 10 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 4,860 4,785 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 4,225 4,165 0 5
Dene 635 615 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 11 7,695 6,765 10 15
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 60 50 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 15 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 75 75 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 7,025 6,145 10 10
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 5 0 0
Hungarian 5 10 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 50 40 0 0
Kurdish 0 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 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 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) 30 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 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 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 15 15 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 250 250 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 55 50 0 0
Multiple responses 1,125 1,095 15 10
English and French 40 10 20 10
English and non-official language 1,065 1,065 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 61,315 59,425 880 35
None 47,510 46,020 540 20
Single responses 13,740 13,335 335 10
English 7,065 6,855 150 10
French 345 160 185 0
Non-official languages 6,335 6,320 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 4,235 4,225 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 3,940 3,935 5 0
Dene 285 280 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 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 15 2,045 2,040 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 70 70 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 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 60 60 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,350 1,350 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 5 10 0 0
Ilocano 5 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 20 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 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 10 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 40 40 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 230 225 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 10 0 0
Ukrainian 60 60 0 0
Urdu 5 10 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 50 55 0 0
Multiple responses 70 70 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 15 15 0 0
French and non-official language 55 55 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 61,315 59,425 880 30
English 59,420 59,425 0 0
French 880 0 880 0
English and French 35 0 0 35
Neither English nor French 980 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 900 0 880 15
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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Footnote 12

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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Footnote 17

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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