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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 Blainville, 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 53,510 2,515 50,130 775
0 to 4 years 3,455 170 3,185 60
5 to 9 years 4,140 190 3,900 45
10 to 14 years 4,525 180 4,285 60
15 to 19 years 4,665 175 4,435 50
20 to 24 years 2,855 125 2,690 45
25 to 29 years 2,180 110 2,045 30
30 to 34 years 3,240 175 3,000 65
35 to 39 years 4,345 250 4,000 95
40 to 44 years 5,005 285 4,640 80
45 to 49 years 5,495 265 5,145 80
50 to 54 years 4,320 195 4,060 65
55 to 59 years 2,880 130 2,710 40
60 to 64 years 2,205 100 2,070 20
65 to 69 years 1,710 65 1,625 15
70 to 74 years 1,135 50 1,065 10
75 to 79 years 710 20 675 5
80 to 84 years 395 20 370 5
85 years and over 240 10 225 0
Median ageFootnote 2 37.1 37.7 37.0 37.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 41,390 1,970 38,755 610
Married or living with a common-law partner 26,750 1,370 24,915 445
Married (and not separated) 15,570 1,050 14,095 395
Living common law 11,180 315 10,815 45
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 14,640 605 13,845 165
Single (never legally married) 10,840 440 10,265 135
Separated 560 30 515 10
Divorced 2,115 90 2,005 15
Widowed 1,130 45 1,060 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 53,510 2,515 50,130 775
English only 385 390 0 0
French only 26,210 0 26,210 0
English and French 26,820 2,125 23,910 775
Neither English nor French 95 0 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 53,510 2,515 50,130 775
Single responses 52,745 2,400 49,660 600
English 1,735 1,705 30 0
French 47,905 5 47,900 0
Non-official languages 3,105 685 1,730 600
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 3,080 690 1,705 600
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 510 55 355 90
Armenian 65 15 15 30
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 10 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 0 0 5 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 5 15 0
Creoles 135 5 115 10
Croatian 10 5 10 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 20 5 10 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 30 20 5 5
Greek 100 75 10 10
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 25 5 10 5
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 485 270 155 55
Japanese 5 5 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 35 0 20 10
Korean 5 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 25 0 15 10
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 0 10 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 5 10 15
Polish 50 10 20 15
Portuguese 610 85 410 85
Romanian 150 10 70 75
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 55 10 15 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 5
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 490 35 315 115
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 10 10 5 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 5 0
Ukrainian 15 5 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 90 5 55 20
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 25 0 20 0
Multiple responses 765 120 470 175
English and French 460 45 260 150
English and non-official language 60 55 0 0
French and non-official language 205 5 200 0
English, French and non-official language 45 15 10 20
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 53,510 2,515 50,130 775
Single responses 52,380 2,350 49,440 500
English 2,185 1,850 335 0
French 49,080 445 48,635 0
Non-official languages 1,115 50 470 505
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 1,105 50 460 500
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 190 10 95 80
Armenian 30 5 5 20
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Creoles 35 0 25 10
Croatian 5 0 0 5
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 0 5 0 0
Greek 15 5 0 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 0 15 25
Japanese 5 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 5 10 10
Korean 0 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 5 0
Lao 15 0 10 5
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 5 0 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 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 0 0 10
Polish 20 0 0 15
Portuguese 215 5 125 70
Romanian 95 0 25 65
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 5 10 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
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 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 5
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 250 0 120 105
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 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 5 0 5 5
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 45 5 15 20
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 1,130 170 685 275
English and French 485 80 200 205
English and non-official language 70 70 5 0
French and non-official language 465 5 460 0
English, French and non-official language 105 15 25 65
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 53,510 2,520 50,130 775
None 46,610 1,110 45,020 405
Single responses 6,530 1,305 4,930 295
English 3,875 300 3,515 60
French 1,425 690 525 200
Non-official languages 1,235 310 890 30
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 1,215 310 870 35
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 200 15 180 0
Armenian 20 15 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 0 10 0
Creoles 140 0 140 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 15 15 5 0
Greek 65 55 5 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 185 115 60 10
Japanese 5 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 0 10 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 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) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 0 5 5
Polish 5 0 5 0
Portuguese 205 30 175 5
Romanian 15 5 15 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 5 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 220 30 185 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 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 5 0 5 0
Urdu 5 0 0 5
Vietnamese 30 5 20 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 20 0 20 0
Multiple responses 370 105 185 80
English and French 85 0 5 75
English and non-official language 170 0 170 0
French and non-official language 115 100 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 53,510 2,515 50,130 775
English 2,515 2,515 0 0
French 50,130 0 50,130 0
English and French 775 0 0 775
Neither English nor French 90 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,905 2,520 0 385
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 5.4 100.0 0.0 49.7

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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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