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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 Kirkland, V
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 21,070 14,180 5,055 1,590
0 to 4 years 860 610 160 50
5 to 9 years 1,185 825 235 120
10 to 14 years 1,650 1,200 310 140
15 to 19 years 1,940 1,355 435 150
20 to 24 years 1,670 1,135 395 140
25 to 29 years 865 595 175 100
30 to 34 years 735 515 145 75
35 to 39 years 920 625 190 105
40 to 44 years 1,540 1,085 335 115
45 to 49 years 2,095 1,500 470 115
50 to 54 years 2,085 1,365 590 120
55 to 59 years 1,645 1,040 510 95
60 to 64 years 1,395 865 410 100
65 to 69 years 935 535 310 65
70 to 74 years 595 355 160 45
75 to 79 years 430 255 110 30
80 to 84 years 285 170 75 10
85 years and over 240 160 45 10
Median ageFootnote 2 42.6 41.3 46.7 36.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 17,375 11,550 4,345 1,285
Married or living with a common-law partner 10,905 7,125 2,895 770
Married (and not separated) 10,020 6,690 2,470 745
Living common law 885 435 420 25
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 6,470 4,420 1,450 515
Single (never legally married) 4,960 3,395 1,105 450
Separated 205 140 45 5
Divorced 650 460 150 25
Widowed 660 420 155 25
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 21,070 14,185 5,050 1,590
English only 3,900 3,900 0 0
French only 605 0 605 0
English and French 16,310 10,280 4,440 1,590
Neither English nor French 255 5 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 21,070 14,185 5,050 1,590
Single responses 20,095 13,600 4,895 1,355
English 9,020 9,010 10 0
French 4,430 10 4,420 0
Non-official languages 6,645 4,575 470 1,350
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 6 6,625 4,560 465 1,345
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 10 0 0 5
Amharic 10 0 0 0
Arabic 650 300 145 185
Armenian 110 60 5 35
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 30 25 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 5 10 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 110 65 0 35
Chinese, n.o.s. 420 285 10 85
Creoles 85 25 35 25
Croatian 35 25 0 10
Czech 25 20 5 5
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 30 25 0 5
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 235 210 10 15
Greek 480 415 0 55
Gujarati 75 65 0 5
Hakka 5 0 0 5
Hebrew 20 20 0 5
Hindi 65 60 0 0
Hungarian 90 75 5 10
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0
Italian 1,710 1,480 65 125
Japanese 10 10 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 5 5
Korean 80 50 0 25
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 5
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 85 40 5 30
Marathi 10 5 0 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 230 150 0 50
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 285 130 5 135
Polish 230 155 15 55
Portuguese 165 110 15 35
Romanian 160 30 20 95
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 145 60 5 65
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 10 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 5
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 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 25 20 5 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 5
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 355 165 45 135
Swahili 5 5 10 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 45 30 0 10
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 10 5 5
Ukrainian 105 90 0 10
Urdu 150 110 5 30
Vietnamese 75 35 15 20
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 25 15 5 5
Multiple responses 975 585 155 240
English and French 420 230 45 150
English and non-official language 300 295 5 0
French and non-official language 100 5 95 0
English, French and non-official language 150 55 10 85
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 21,070 14,185 5,055 1,590
Single responses 19,845 13,590 4,795 1,215
English 13,500 12,580 920 0
French 3,795 85 3,710 0
Non-official languages 2,550 930 165 1,210
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 2,545 930 165 1,205
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 5 5
Arabic 280 80 30 155
Armenian 40 0 0 35
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 15 5 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 5 0 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 90 45 5 35
Chinese, n.o.s. 290 170 10 70
Creoles 45 0 10 35
Croatian 20 5 5 10
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 5 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 45 30 0 15
Greek 95 35 0 45
Gujarati 35 25 0 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 185 20 35 100
Japanese 10 10 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 65 35 0 25
Kurdish 0 0 0 5
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 70 25 0 35
Marathi 5 5 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) 155 85 5 45
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 205 60 5 125
Polish 80 30 0 45
Portuguese 40 10 5 20
Romanian 135 5 15 95
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 125 35 5 65
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 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 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 210 45 25 130
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 15 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 10 0 10
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 5
Ukrainian 15 0 0 10
Urdu 75 45 0 25
Vietnamese 40 15 5 20
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 0 0 5
Multiple responses 1,225 595 255 375
English and French 415 70 130 215
English and non-official language 490 490 5 0
French and non-official language 95 5 95 0
English, French and non-official language 225 40 25 165
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 21,075 14,180 5,050 1,590
None 13,400 9,600 2,790 770
Single responses 6,935 4,170 2,170 585
English 2,180 495 1,270 405
French 2,495 1,750 645 100
Non-official languages 2,265 1,920 260 80
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 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 14 2,260 1,915 260 80
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 255 135 110 10
Armenian 35 35 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 60 0 0
Creoles 55 15 35 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 5
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 85 80 0 5
Greek 295 290 5 0
Gujarati 30 30 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 5
Hebrew 15 10 5 0
Hindi 60 50 0 5
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 640 595 20 25
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 5 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 5 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 55 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 0
Polish 60 45 10 0
Portuguese 55 50 5 0
Romanian 15 15 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 15 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 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. 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 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 145 105 25 15
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 10 0 5
Ukrainian 40 40 0 0
Urdu 35 40 0 0
Vietnamese 20 15 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 5 5 0 0
Multiple responses 735 410 95 230
English and French 250 10 10 230
English and non-official language 85 10 70 0
French and non-official language 400 385 15 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 21,070 14,185 5,050 1,590
English 14,180 14,180 0 0
French 5,055 0 5,050 0
English and French 1,590 0 0 1,590
Neither English nor French 245 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 14,975 14,180 0 795
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 71.1 100.0 0.0 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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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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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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