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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 White Rock, CYFootnote 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 18,695 18,150 330 60
0 to 4 years 570 550 0 0
5 to 9 years 540 530 5 5
10 to 14 years 680 670 5 5
15 to 19 years 785 770 0 10
20 to 24 years 725 715 5 5
25 to 29 years 825 815 10 5
30 to 34 years 835 825 10 0
35 to 39 years 955 940 15 0
40 to 44 years 1,095 1,055 15 5
45 to 49 years 1,415 1,370 20 5
50 to 54 years 1,580 1,530 40 5
55 to 59 years 1,755 1,700 40 0
60 to 64 years 1,840 1,780 45 0
65 to 69 years 1,440 1,385 35 5
70 to 74 years 1,135 1,100 20 5
75 to 79 years 895 855 25 5
80 to 84 years 760 730 20 5
85 years and over 860 840 15 5
Median ageFootnote 3 52.9 52.8 59.7 42.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 16,895 16,405 320 55
Married or living with a common-law partner 8,940 8,650 180 30
Married (and not separated) 7,600 7,350 145 25
Living common law 1,335 1,300 35 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 7,960 7,755 140 25
Single (never legally married) 3,700 3,635 40 25
Separated 605 580 15 5
Divorced 2,140 2,080 50 0
Widowed 1,520 1,460 35 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 18,690 18,155 330 60
English only 16,795 16,795 0 0
French only 10 0 10 0
English and French 1,740 1,355 320 65
Neither English nor French 150 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 18,695 18,155 330 65
Single responses 18,485 17,955 320 55
English 15,095 15,095 0 0
French 350 35 315 0
Non-official languages 3,040 2,830 10 60
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 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 7 3,010 2,800 5 60
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 35 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 20 20 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 60 60 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 165 140 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 45 45 5 0
Czech 30 25 0 0
Danish 60 60 0 0
Dutch 125 120 0 5
Estonian 25 25 0 0
Finnish 45 40 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 510 500 0 10
Greek 45 40 0 5
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0
Hungarian 60 55 5 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 85 85 0 5
Japanese 80 70 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 195 175 0 5
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 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 250 200 0 10
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 160 155 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 100 95 0 0
Portuguese 30 20 5 5
Romanian 30 30 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 120 105 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 55 50 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 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 25 20 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 115 110 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 30 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 155 155 0 0
Taiwanese 15 10 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 95 95 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 210 200 10 5
English and French 45 45 0 0
English and non-official language 140 145 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 18,695 18,155 335 65
Single responses 18,370 17,840 320 55
English 17,045 16,805 235 0
French 90 10 85 0
Non-official languages 1,230 1,030 0 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 0 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 11 1,230 1,025 0 55
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 5 0 5
Armenian 0 5 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 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 30 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 110 95 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 15 10 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 85 80 0 10
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 15 10 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 15 0 5
Japanese 30 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 160 140 0 5
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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 220 165 0 5
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) 80 75 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 25 20 0 0
Portuguese 15 5 0 5
Romanian 15 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 85 70 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 40 30 0 5
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 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 25 20 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 60 60 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 325 310 10 5
English and French 20 10 5 10
English and non-official language 295 295 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 18,695 18,155 330 65
None 16,870 16,520 195 25
Single responses 1,790 1,605 135 40
English 535 450 50 35
French 230 145 80 5
Non-official languages 1,020 1,005 5 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 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 5 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 15 995 975 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 50 50 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 200 200 0 0
Greek 20 15 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 30 30 5 0
Japanese 40 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 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 40 40 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 65 65 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 5 10 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 30 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 25 25 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 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 5 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 80 75 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 70 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 30 30 5 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 5 5 5 0
French and non-official language 25 25 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 18,695 18,150 330 65
English 18,155 18,155 0 0
French 330 0 330 0
English and French 65 0 0 65
Neither English nor French 145 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 365 0 330 35
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 2.0 0.0 100.0 53.8

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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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Footnote 7

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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