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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 Division No. 22Footnote 1
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 2 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 40,760 40,100 280 40
0 to 4 years 5,290 5,155 10 5
5 to 9 years 4,270 4,245 10 0
10 to 14 years 3,960 3,925 10 10
15 to 19 years 3,990 3,975 5 5
20 to 24 years 3,520 3,490 20 5
25 to 29 years 2,970 2,935 30 5
30 to 34 years 2,655 2,625 20 5
35 to 39 years 2,530 2,495 25 5
40 to 44 years 2,645 2,610 30 0
45 to 49 years 2,515 2,480 30 0
50 to 54 years 2,070 2,030 30 5
55 to 59 years 1,495 1,465 20 0
60 to 64 years 1,150 1,115 20 0
65 to 69 years 760 710 10 0
70 to 74 years 505 465 5 0
75 to 79 years 250 220 5 0
80 to 84 years 110 95 0 0
85 years and over 75 55 0 0
Median ageFootnote 3 24.0 23.9 42.7 25.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 27,240 26,765 250 25
Married or living with a common-law partner 14,055 13,775 175 15
Married (and not separated) 10,385 10,155 125 10
Living common law 3,675 3,615 45 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 13,190 13,000 80 10
Single (never legally married) 10,900 10,800 50 10
Separated 735 720 10 5
Divorced 675 660 10 5
Widowed 880 815 15 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 40,755 40,100 280 40
English only 39,390 39,390 0 0
French only 10 0 10 0
English and French 1,005 690 270 45
Neither English nor French 355 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 40,760 40,100 285 40
Single responses 40,100 39,450 280 35
English 21,205 21,200 0 0
French 295 30 270 0
Non-official languages 18,600 18,215 10 35
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 17,505 17,185 0 15
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 11,335 11,190 5 0
Dene 40 40 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 85 80 0 5
Oji-Cree 6,040 5,870 0 10
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 1,040 975 5 20
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 15 20 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 35 25 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 25 25 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0
Creoles 10 0 5 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 65 65 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 105 100 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 45 40 0 0
Hungarian 15 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 15 20 0 0
Japanese 5 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 15 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 200 190 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 5
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 75 70 0 5
Romanian 10 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 55 50 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 60 60 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 5
Vietnamese 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 55 50 0 0
Multiple responses 660 650 5 5
English and French 35 30 0 5
English and non-official language 615 615 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 40,755 40,100 280 40
Single responses 39,960 39,315 275 30
English 27,495 27,310 190 0
French 85 5 80 0
Non-official languages 12,375 12,005 5 30
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 11,830 11,510 5 15
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 6,245 6,100 5 5
Dene 15 15 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 75 70 0 5
Oji-Cree 5,495 5,325 0 10
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 535 485 5 15
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 20 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0
Creoles 0 0 5 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
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 0 0 0
German 5 5 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 5
Gujarati 85 80 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 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 10 10 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 125 110 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 5 5 0 0
Portuguese 30 30 0 5
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 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 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 30 25 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 15 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 10 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 10 10 0 0
Multiple responses 800 785 5 10
English and French 25 5 5 10
English and non-official language 765 765 0 0
French and non-official language 0 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 40,760 40,100 280 40
None 24,220 23,725 165 25
Single responses 16,505 16,340 110 15
English 9,030 8,945 30 15
French 210 135 70 0
Non-official languages 7,270 7,265 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 6,935 6,935 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5,895 5,890 0 0
Dene 15 15 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 30 30 0 0
Oji-Cree 990 990 0 5
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 310 305 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 5 0 0
Armenian 0 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 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0
Creoles 5 5 5 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 25 25 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 5 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 0 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 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 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 45 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 0
Portuguese 25 25 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 15 20 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 10 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 20 20 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 35 30 0 5
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 5 5 5 0
French and non-official language 25 25 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 40,760 40,100 280 40
English 40,100 40,100 0 0
French 280 0 285 0
English and French 45 0 0 40
Neither English nor French 335 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 305 0 280 20
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 0.7 0.0 100.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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Footnote 2

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 13

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 14

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 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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Footnote 19

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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