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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 St. John's, 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 104,715 103,860 505 95
0 to 4 years 4,990 4,895 25 5
5 to 9 years 4,730 4,690 20 5
10 to 14 years 4,945 4,910 15 10
15 to 19 years 6,030 5,985 25 10
20 to 24 years 9,760 9,690 45 10
25 to 29 years 8,815 8,720 55 15
30 to 34 years 7,170 7,110 40 10
35 to 39 years 6,695 6,630 40 5
40 to 44 years 7,030 6,975 30 10
45 to 49 years 8,070 8,015 35 5
50 to 54 years 8,005 7,940 50 0
55 to 59 years 7,445 7,405 30 0
60 to 64 years 6,540 6,485 45 0
65 to 69 years 5,005 4,975 20 0
70 to 74 years 3,530 3,500 15 0
75 to 79 years 2,565 2,550 10 0
80 to 84 years 1,910 1,900 5 0
85 years and over 1,495 1,485 0 0
Median ageFootnote 2 39.4 39.5 37.7 26.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 90,055 89,365 440 75
Married or living with a common-law partner 46,640 46,255 260 35
Married (and not separated) 37,850 37,555 185 30
Living common law 8,790 8,700 80 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 43,415 43,110 180 40
Single (never legally married) 30,615 30,385 130 35
Separated 2,220 2,205 5 0
Divorced 5,660 5,630 25 0
Widowed 4,925 4,890 10 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 104,715 103,860 510 95
English only 95,580 95,580 0 0
French only 35 0 35 0
English and French 8,830 8,265 470 90
Neither English nor French 275 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 104,715 103,860 505 95
Single responses 104,210 103,420 465 70
English 99,745 99,745 0 0
French 500 55 445 0
Non-official languages 3,965 3,620 20 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 35 35 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 20 20 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 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 3,770 3,445 20 65
African languages, n.i.e. 55 55 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 100 80 0 0
Amharic 15 10 0 0
Arabic 350 305 5 10
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Bengali 190 185 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 30 30 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 85 75 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 695 650 0 5
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 20 15 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 5 10 0 0
Dutch 35 35 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 120 115 0 5
Greek 25 30 0 0
Gujarati 35 35 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 65 70 0 0
Hungarian 15 20 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 35 30 5 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 50 50 0 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0
Malayalam 35 30 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 150 140 0 0
Marathi 25 25 0 0
Nepali 50 40 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Norwegian 30 25 0 0
Oromo 20 15 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 45 0 0
Pashto 15 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 100 85 0 5
Polish 70 60 0 0
Portuguese 45 40 0 0
Romanian 25 20 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 150 135 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 10 15 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 30 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 310 275 0 15
Swahili 30 15 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 85 85 0 0
Taiwanese 25 25 0 0
Tamil 55 55 0 0
Telugu 35 30 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 15 10 0 0
Urdu 130 125 5 0
Vietnamese 25 15 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 160 140 5 0
Multiple responses 505 440 40 25
English and French 155 110 20 20
English and non-official language 310 305 0 0
French and non-official language 25 10 15 0
English, French and non-official language 15 15 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 104,715 103,860 505 90
Single responses 104,010 103,230 470 60
English 101,680 101,410 265 0
French 225 40 190 0
Non-official languages 2,105 1,780 10 60
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 15 15 0 0
Inuktitut 5 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 10 2,010 1,705 5 60
African languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 75 55 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 235 190 0 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 90 85 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 55 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 475 440 0 5
Creoles 5 10 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 15 15 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 110 95 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0
Nepali 50 35 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 60 50 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 5
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 90 65 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 180 145 0 15
Swahili 25 10 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 25 25 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 65 60 0 0
Vietnamese 20 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 70 55 0 0
Multiple responses 705 630 40 35
English and French 85 40 25 25
English and non-official language 580 585 5 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 10 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 104,715 103,860 505 95
None 101,200 100,675 250 55
Single responses 3,420 3,120 245 30
English 1,045 890 110 25
French 860 735 120 0
Non-official languages 1,520 1,495 15 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 10 10 0 0
Inuktitut 5 10 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 1,390 1,365 15 5
African languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 125 125 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 50 50 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 130 125 0 0
Creoles 5 10 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 20 20 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 70 75 0 0
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 10 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 60 60 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 5 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 40 40 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 20 0 0
Polish 15 20 0 0
Portuguese 20 20 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 60 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 170 165 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0
Taiwanese 5 10 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 5 10 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 65 65 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 110 110 0 0
Multiple responses 90 70 10 15
English and French 15 0 0 15
English and non-official language 20 15 0 0
French and non-official language 55 50 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 104,715 103,860 510 90
English 103,860 103,860 0 0
French 510 0 505 0
English and French 95 0 0 95
Neither English nor French 260 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 550 0 505 45
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 0.5 0.0 99.0 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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Footnote 6

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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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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Footnote 15

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 16

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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