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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 Chilliwack, 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 77,230 75,920 895 90
0 to 4 years 5,025 4,950 10 5
5 to 9 years 4,915 4,890 15 5
10 to 14 years 5,145 5,110 10 10
15 to 19 years 5,545 5,500 20 20
20 to 24 years 4,580 4,545 30 0
25 to 29 years 4,620 4,580 30 5
30 to 34 years 4,455 4,405 35 5
35 to 39 years 4,890 4,810 55 5
40 to 44 years 5,240 5,150 65 5
45 to 49 years 5,900 5,780 90 5
50 to 54 years 5,560 5,420 105 5
55 to 59 years 4,890 4,770 95 0
60 to 64 years 4,460 4,355 80 5
65 to 69 years 3,565 3,460 80 5
70 to 74 years 2,910 2,825 60 5
75 to 79 years 2,330 2,250 50 5
80 to 84 years 1,775 1,710 45 5
85 years and over 1,445 1,400 25 5
Median ageFootnote 2 39.5 39.2 54.2 38.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 62,145 60,960 855 70
Married or living with a common-law partner 37,420 36,660 550 40
Married (and not separated) 31,985 31,360 425 40
Living common law 5,435 5,305 125 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 24,725 24,300 305 25
Single (never legally married) 15,105 14,945 120 20
Separated 2,085 2,040 40 0
Divorced 3,995 3,905 75 0
Widowed 3,535 3,410 70 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 77,230 75,920 895 90
English only 73,265 73,260 0 0
French only 20 0 20 0
English and French 3,610 2,650 875 90
Neither English nor French 335 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 77,230 75,920 895 85
Single responses 76,490 75,215 885 65
English 66,865 66,860 0 0
French 1,025 155 875 0
Non-official languages 8,600 8,205 10 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 20 25 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 8,485 8,085 10 65
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 105 100 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 40 35 0 0
Amharic 25 25 0 0
Arabic 50 45 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 25 0 0
Bosnian 10 15 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 5
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 65 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 205 160 0 5
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 40 40 0 0
Czech 55 55 0 5
Danish 115 115 0 0
Dutch 1,580 1,560 0 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 75 75 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 2,520 2,485 0 5
Greek 55 55 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 90 85 0 5
Hungarian 130 130 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 95 90 0 0
Japanese 75 75 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 355 305 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 175 145 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 40 40 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 490 430 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 80 70 0 0
Polish 165 160 0 5
Portuguese 65 60 0 0
Romanian 185 165 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 135 130 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 25 20 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) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 515 470 0 5
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 25 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 250 245 0 0
Taiwanese 15 10 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 180 185 0 0
Urdu 40 40 0 0
Vietnamese 135 120 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 100 100 0 0
Multiple responses 740 705 15 25
English and French 150 125 10 20
English and non-official language 540 540 0 0
French and non-official language 45 35 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 77,230 75,920 895 85
Single responses 76,275 75,035 850 55
English 73,500 72,825 670 0
French 210 35 175 0
Non-official languages 2,570 2,180 10 60
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 2,550 2,160 5 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 45 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 20 20 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 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 120 80 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 5 10 0 0
Dutch 210 190 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 360 330 0 5
Greek 15 20 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 55 55 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 10 0 0
Japanese 30 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 300 245 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 130 90 5 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) 320 260 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 60 60 0 0
Polish 50 40 0 5
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 95 70 0 10
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 10 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 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 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 255 210 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 80 75 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 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 15 10 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 105 85 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 15 15 0 0
Multiple responses 955 880 45 30
English and French 65 5 40 20
English and non-official language 865 870 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 77,230 75,920 895 85
None 72,545 71,655 550 40
Single responses 4,615 4,195 345 45
English 1,230 1,050 115 40
French 530 310 220 0
Non-official languages 2,850 2,830 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 2,790 2,770 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 55 55 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 10 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 0
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 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 60 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 40 40 0 0
Dutch 650 645 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 625 620 5 0
Greek 35 35 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 50 50 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 30 0 0
Japanese 40 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 70 75 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0
Mandarin 45 45 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 100 105 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 15 0 0
Polish 50 50 0 0
Portuguese 50 50 0 0
Romanian 55 50 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 60 55 0 5
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 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 5 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 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 240 240 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 90 95 0 0
Taiwanese 15 5 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 40 35 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 55 55 0 0
Multiple responses 70 70 0 5
English and French 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 10 10 5 0
French and non-official language 55 55 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 77,230 75,920 895 90
English 75,920 75,920 0 0
French 895 0 900 0
English and French 90 0 0 90
Neither English nor French 325 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 940 0 895 45
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.2 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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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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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