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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 Gatineau, 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 263,255 37,715 216,755 7,320
0 to 4 years 16,610 2,275 13,300 500
5 to 9 years 14,495 1,970 12,035 435
10 to 14 years 15,150 1,875 12,670 580
15 to 19 years 17,940 2,285 14,960 680
20 to 24 years 18,300 2,845 14,825 615
25 to 29 years 18,450 3,170 14,610 645
30 to 34 years 19,080 3,370 15,025 650
35 to 39 years 18,255 3,195 14,270 745
40 to 44 years 18,730 3,125 14,815 730
45 to 49 years 22,180 3,155 18,385 580
50 to 54 years 21,845 2,820 18,535 420
55 to 59 years 17,965 2,255 15,355 295
60 to 64 years 14,655 1,860 12,530 180
65 to 69 years 10,475 1,220 9,065 110
70 to 74 years 7,145 900 6,075 55
75 to 79 years 5,425 655 4,640 40
80 to 84 years 3,890 425 3,375 30
85 years and over 2,665 325 2,275 15
Median ageFootnote 2 38.1 36.7 38.8 31.7
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 217,000 31,590 178,750 5,805
Married or living with a common-law partner 121,125 18,235 99,130 3,270
Married (and not separated) 78,520 13,565 61,540 2,950
Living common law 42,610 4,670 37,585 325
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 95,875 13,355 79,620 2,535
Single (never legally married) 64,960 9,045 53,755 2,070
Separated 4,625 865 3,630 105
Divorced 16,055 2,240 13,505 255
Widowed 10,230 1,205 8,725 100
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 263,260 37,715 216,755 7,320
English only 17,190 17,190 0 0
French only 76,055 0 76,050 0
English and French 168,475 20,505 140,650 7,320
Neither English nor French 1,535 15 50 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 263,255 37,715 216,755 7,325
Single responses 256,280 35,990 213,190 5,635
English 29,060 28,935 130 0
French 203,365 195 203,165 0
Non-official languages 23,860 6,860 9,895 5,635
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 95 65 15 15
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 70 50 0 15
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 10 0 10 0
Inuktitut 10 10 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 23,305 6,715 9,595 5,555
African languages, n.i.e. 70 5 45 20
Afrikaans 5 5 0 5
Akan (Twi) 10 10 5 0
Albanian 40 20 0 10
Amharic 60 50 5 10
Arabic 5,655 1,325 2,260 1,700
Armenian 60 20 10 25
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 135 20 100 15
Bengali 70 60 0 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 100 0 80 15
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 140 35 60 35
Bulgarian 195 65 45 80
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 150 100 25 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 815 490 100 150
Creoles 765 40 600 85
Croatian 185 35 65 75
Czech 55 30 15 10
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 155 110 40 10
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 15 0 0
Flemish 20 10 10 5
Fukien 5 0 5 0
German 405 265 110 35
Greek 120 80 20 20
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 5 5
Hindi 25 25 5 0
Hungarian 125 60 25 35
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Italian 405 215 150 40
Japanese 80 45 20 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 195 40 70 60
Korean 95 60 15 20
Kurdish 65 35 15 20
Lao 110 15 65 25
Latvian 10 5 0 0
Lingala 105 5 95 5
Lithuanian 10 10 0 5
Macedonian 10 0 0 5
Malay 25 20 5 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 445 255 70 70
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 295 20 240 35
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 205 5 165 20
Panjabi (Punjabi) 60 50 0 5
Pashto 10 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 480 270 80 80
Polish 365 200 90 75
Portuguese 2,520 430 1,450 425
Romanian 810 120 275 375
Rundi (Kirundi) 385 20 280 75
Russian 470 210 100 125
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 355 35 265 50
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 5
Serbian 505 65 165 245
Serbo-Croatian 400 55 135 200
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 0 5 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 5 10 5
Slovak 45 25 5 5
Slovenian 10 5 5 0
Somali 155 35 65 40
Spanish 3,865 865 1,740 995
Swahili 260 55 175 20
Swedish 10 5 5 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 180 160 5 10
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 35 25 5 5
Telugu 5 5 0 5
Thai 40 25 10 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 20 5 0
Turkish 95 70 10 5
Ukrainian 95 55 10 20
Urdu 105 80 5 10
Vietnamese 420 130 130 100
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 460 75 295 60
Multiple responses 6,980 1,725 3,560 1,685
English and French 4,410 1,065 1,870 1,475
English and non-official language 580 570 10 0
French and non-official language 1,595 20 1,580 0
English, French and non-official language 390 75 105 210
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 263,255 37,710 216,755 7,320
Single responses 253,855 35,735 211,550 5,100
English 35,180 29,525 5,655 0
French 205,710 3,415 202,295 0
Non-official languages 12,965 2,800 3,600 5,100
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 50 30 5 15
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 40 25 5 15
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 5 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 12,760 2,755 3,525 5,040
African languages, n.i.e. 30 5 10 15
Afrikaans 5 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 20 10 0 10
Amharic 30 15 5 5
Arabic 3,265 625 780 1,495
Armenian 25 5 0 25
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 5 5 10
Bengali 50 35 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 50 0 30 15
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 105 15 55 35
Bulgarian 135 25 25 75
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 30 5 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 695 380 80 145
Creoles 245 5 135 75
Croatian 125 20 30 65
Czech 15 10 5 5
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 25 15 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 60 25 0 30
Greek 25 10 0 15
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 5 5
Hindi 10 5 0 5
Hungarian 40 10 0 30
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 55 15 10 25
Japanese 40 15 5 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 105 10 20 45
Korean 55 35 5 15
Kurdish 40 20 0 15
Lao 70 15 25 20
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 30 0 15 10
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 5
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 335 180 45 55
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 5 15 25
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 65 0 30 20
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 20 0 10
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 280 130 25 75
Polish 135 65 5 55
Portuguese 1,125 110 435 365
Romanian 595 50 140 375
Rundi (Kirundi) 120 5 40 65
Russian 320 95 65 125
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 85 5 30 40
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 10
Serbian 445 45 135 245
Serbo-Croatian 320 35 80 190
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 0 10 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5
Slovak 15 5 0 10
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 90 15 25 35
Spanish 2,665 375 1,085 940
Swahili 85 10 45 10
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 5
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 5 5 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0
Turkish 40 30 0 5
Ukrainian 40 15 10 10
Urdu 55 45 0 5
Vietnamese 280 85 30 100
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 150 15 65 50
Multiple responses 9,400 1,975 5,200 2,220
English and French 4,840 815 2,405 1,620
English and non-official language 1,100 1,070 30 0
French and non-official language 2,535 20 2,515 0
English, French and non-official language 930 75 250 600
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 263,255 37,715 216,755 7,320
None 203,025 24,350 173,355 4,000
Single responses 57,665 12,840 42,295 2,400
English 35,085 3,325 31,140 595
French 14,355 6,975 5,780 1,530
Non-official languages 8,225 2,540 5,375 275
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 30 20 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 7,810 2,455 5,075 255
African languages, n.i.e. 60 5 55 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 15 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 5
Amharic 20 20 5 5
Arabic 1,640 490 1,090 60
Armenian 10 5 5 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 95 10 85 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 25 0 25 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 15 20 5
Bulgarian 25 15 10 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 55 45 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 70 25 5
Creoles 615 20 585 10
Croatian 35 15 20 0
Czech 15 10 10 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 45 30 15 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 10 5 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 175 90 70 15
Greek 60 50 15 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 0
Hungarian 25 15 5 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 195 105 85 5
Japanese 50 20 30 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 15 45 0
Korean 20 15 5 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 25 5 20 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 155 5 145 5
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 5 5 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 85 60 20 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 210 15 200 5
Norwegian 10 5 5 0
Oromo 70 0 65 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 120 80 35 5
Polish 110 65 40 5
Portuguese 770 175 575 25
Romanian 125 30 80 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 205 5 195 0
Russian 170 80 65 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 175 20 150 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 60 25 30 5
Serbo-Croatian 50 10 40 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 10 5
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. 10 0 10 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 55 10 40 5
Spanish 1,360 395 930 35
Swahili 180 35 145 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 75 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 5
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 5 0
Turkish 35 25 5 5
Ukrainian 30 25 0 5
Urdu 40 40 0 0
Vietnamese 95 40 55 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 385 60 295 15
Multiple responses 2,570 520 1,110 930
English and French 1,040 50 75 905
English and non-official language 1,010 45 960 5
French and non-official language 505 430 70 5
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 15
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 263,260 37,715 216,755 7,320
English 37,715 37,715 0 0
French 216,755 0 216,755 0
English and French 7,320 0 0 7,320
Neither English nor French 1,465 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 41,375 37,715 0 3,660
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 15.7 100.0 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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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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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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