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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 Port Coquitlam, 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 55,900 53,770 605 315
0 to 4 years 3,045 2,850 20 15
5 to 9 years 3,100 3,045 15 25
10 to 14 years 3,660 3,585 20 40
15 to 19 years 4,155 4,075 25 45
20 to 24 years 3,765 3,710 20 25
25 to 29 years 3,525 3,480 25 15
30 to 34 years 3,555 3,475 40 25
35 to 39 years 3,880 3,765 50 25
40 to 44 years 4,670 4,520 60 30
45 to 49 years 5,305 5,140 55 20
50 to 54 years 4,975 4,790 65 15
55 to 59 years 3,845 3,690 65 5
60 to 64 years 2,945 2,795 35 10
65 to 69 years 1,985 1,815 35 10
70 to 74 years 1,355 1,200 25 0
75 to 79 years 1,005 850 15 5
80 to 84 years 635 545 15 5
85 years and over 500 440 15 0
Median ageFootnote 2 39.1 38.6 47.1 28.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 46,095 44,290 545 240
Married or living with a common-law partner 27,360 26,120 365 140
Married (and not separated) 23,830 22,665 290 135
Living common law 3,535 3,455 70 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 18,735 18,170 185 95
Single (never legally married) 12,930 12,725 100 85
Separated 1,325 1,270 15 5
Divorced 2,730 2,645 40 10
Widowed 1,745 1,520 35 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 55,900 53,770 605 320
English only 50,930 50,925 0 0
French only 50 0 50 0
English and French 3,685 2,815 555 315
Neither English nor French 1,235 25 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 55,895 53,770 600 315
Single responses 54,655 52,580 575 295
English 38,575 38,575 0 0
French 590 70 520 0
Non-official languages 15,485 13,940 50 295
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 6 15,355 13,820 45 295
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 50 50 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 15 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 20 20 0 0
Arabic 290 245 5 25
Armenian 15 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 85 85 0 0
Bosnian 45 45 0 0
Bulgarian 60 55 0 5
Burmese 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 1,690 1,465 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,250 1,050 0 5
Creoles 20 15 5 5
Croatian 160 150 0 5
Czech 135 135 0 0
Danish 45 45 0 0
Dutch 180 180 0 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 95 95 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 15 15 0 0
German 535 525 0 5
Greek 55 55 0 0
Gujarati 165 150 0 5
Hakka 20 15 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 345 325 0 5
Hungarian 215 205 0 0
Ilocano 55 55 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 385 380 0 0
Japanese 210 195 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 35 30 0 0
Korean 1,150 970 0 5
Kurdish 80 75 0 0
Lao 10 15 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 20 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 50 50 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 900 765 0 10
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 20 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 895 755 5 5
Pashto 20 15 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 935 825 5 35
Polish 845 805 5 15
Portuguese 275 265 0 5
Romanian 535 445 5 60
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 515 460 5 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Serbian 110 100 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 35 35 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 35 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 145 140 0 5
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 815 740 10 35
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,035 1,025 0 0
Taiwanese 25 20 0 0
Tamil 35 30 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 25 20 0 5
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 25 25 0 0
Turkish 50 40 0 0
Ukrainian 95 85 0 5
Urdu 75 75 0 0
Vietnamese 160 135 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 125 120 0 0
Multiple responses 1,245 1,190 35 20
English and French 125 105 0 10
English and non-official language 1,045 1,045 0 0
French and non-official language 55 25 30 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 55,900 53,770 605 315
Single responses 53,290 51,250 560 280
English 44,760 44,390 375 0
French 180 20 165 0
Non-official languages 8,345 6,840 20 275
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 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 10 8,295 6,800 20 275
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 150 115 0 20
Armenian 5 0 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 45 45 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 40 35 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 1,255 1,010 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 730 540 5 10
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 65 55 0 5
Czech 50 50 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 15 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 65 60 0 5
Greek 10 10 0 5
Gujarati 70 60 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 5
Hindi 135 120 0 0
Hungarian 70 55 0 5
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 50 45 0 0
Japanese 90 80 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0
Korean 915 740 0 10
Kurdish 45 45 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 680 535 0 10
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 560 425 0 5
Pashto 15 10 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 655 540 0 35
Polish 450 410 0 15
Portuguese 65 55 0 0
Romanian 325 240 0 55
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 380 325 0 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Serbian 65 50 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 85 80 0 5
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 400 330 5 30
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 380 365 0 5
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0
Ukrainian 15 10 0 5
Urdu 40 35 0 0
Vietnamese 90 70 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 50 45 0 5
Multiple responses 2,605 2,525 45 40
English and French 45 15 15 15
English and non-official language 2,495 2,485 10 0
French and non-official language 15 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 50 20 10 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 55,895 53,770 600 315
None 47,070 45,520 335 115
Single responses 8,670 8,125 255 185
English 3,690 3,385 85 170
French 480 325 150 5
Non-official languages 4,495 4,420 15 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 14 4,445 4,365 15 10
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 100 100 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 370 365 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 275 265 0 0
Creoles 15 15 0 0
Croatian 45 45 0 0
Czech 55 55 0 0
Danish 10 15 0 0
Dutch 65 60 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 20 25 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0
German 170 170 0 0
Greek 30 30 0 0
Gujarati 80 85 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 190 185 0 0
Hungarian 65 65 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 150 150 0 0
Japanese 110 110 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 165 165 0 0
Kurdish 20 25 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 215 200 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 220 220 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 195 195 0 0
Polish 255 250 5 0
Portuguese 115 115 0 0
Romanian 140 140 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 80 85 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Sindhi 20 15 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 30 30 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 340 340 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 425 425 0 0
Taiwanese 20 10 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 0
Vietnamese 30 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 50 50 0 0
Multiple responses 155 125 15 20
English and French 15 0 0 15
English and non-official language 60 50 5 0
French and non-official language 80 70 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 55,900 53,770 605 315
English 53,770 53,775 0 0
French 605 0 605 0
English and French 320 0 0 315
Neither English nor French 1,205 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 760 0 605 160
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.4 0.0 100.0 50.8

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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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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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Footnote 11

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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