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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. 13Footnote 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 68,300 66,925 1,200 50
0 to 4 years 4,335 4,270 10 0
5 to 9 years 4,215 4,205 5 0
10 to 14 years 4,625 4,595 25 5
15 to 19 years 4,640 4,615 20 0
20 to 24 years 3,465 3,435 20 5
25 to 29 years 3,750 3,705 45 5
30 to 34 years 3,960 3,910 50 5
35 to 39 years 4,240 4,155 80 0
40 to 44 years 4,535 4,435 90 0
45 to 49 years 5,445 5,340 100 5
50 to 54 years 5,655 5,500 145 5
55 to 59 years 5,235 5,085 145 10
60 to 64 years 4,325 4,170 135 0
65 to 69 years 3,400 3,255 140 0
70 to 74 years 2,480 2,395 80 5
75 to 79 years 1,925 1,865 55 0
80 to 84 years 1,170 1,130 40 0
85 years and over 885 860 20 0
Median ageFootnote 3 41.0 40.6 55.4 37.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 55,110 53,850 1,155 40
Married or living with a common-law partner 35,905 34,990 860 20
Married (and not separated) 30,195 29,400 745 15
Living common law 5,715 5,585 125 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 19,205 18,860 290 20
Single (never legally married) 11,925 11,795 105 15
Separated 1,310 1,265 40 5
Divorced 3,155 3,060 85 5
Widowed 2,815 2,735 65 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 68,300 66,925 1,205 45
English only 65,015 65,015 0 0
French only 15 0 15 0
English and French 3,135 1,900 1,185 50
Neither English nor French 135 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 68,300 66,925 1,200 50
Single responses 67,730 66,365 1,190 45
English 60,515 60,520 0 0
French 1,515 330 1,185 0
Non-official languages 5,695 5,520 10 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 340 330 0 10
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 160 165 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 170 155 0 10
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 5,265 5,100 5 30
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 65 65 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 70 60 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 35 30 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 20 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 70 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 10 15 0 0
Czech 30 30 0 0
Danish 45 40 0 0
Dutch 650 640 0 5
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 20 20 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,830 1,775 0 15
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 40 45 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 35 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 120 100 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 5
Polish 260 260 0 5
Portuguese 25 25 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 125 120 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 195 180 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 25 30 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 295 295 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 915 915 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 0
Vietnamese 55 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 90 85 5 5
Multiple responses 575 560 10 5
English and French 125 110 10 5
English and non-official language 400 400 0 0
French and non-official language 45 40 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 68,300 66,925 1,200 45
Single responses 67,680 66,355 1,155 40
English 65,610 64,670 940 0
French 290 80 210 0
Non-official languages 1,775 1,600 0 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 110 100 0 10
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 20 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 90 80 0 10
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 1,625 1,470 0 30
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 55 55 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 40 35 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 45 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 140 130 0 10
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 615 555 0 10
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 5 0 0
Japanese 5 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 90 70 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 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 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
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 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 5
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 40 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 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. 15 10 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 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 140 120 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 170 165 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 0 0
Ukrainian 30 35 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 35 30 0 5
Multiple responses 620 570 50 5
English and French 65 30 35 5
English and non-official language 530 525 10 0
French and non-official language 20 15 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 5 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 68,300 66,920 1,200 45
None 64,725 63,785 805 25
Single responses 3,495 3,065 390 20
English 1,140 995 120 10
French 615 345 265 10
Non-official languages 1,735 1,730 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 255 255 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 110 110 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 135 135 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,420 1,415 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 40 40 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 180 180 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 375 375 0 5
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 15 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 5 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 55 55 0 0
Portuguese 5 10 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 50 50 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 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 75 75 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 85 80 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 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 255 255 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 65 60 0 0
Multiple responses 80 75 5 0
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 15 10 5 0
French and non-official language 65 65 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 68,300 66,925 1,200 50
English 66,920 66,920 0 0
French 1,205 0 1,200 0
English and French 45 0 0 45
Neither English nor French 130 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,225 0 1,200 25
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.8 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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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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