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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 North Vancouver, CY
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 47,815 45,885 745 385
0 to 4 years 2,360 2,180 40 15
5 to 9 years 2,035 1,965 30 20
10 to 14 years 2,135 2,045 25 45
15 to 19 years 2,355 2,275 30 45
20 to 24 years 2,975 2,920 30 15
25 to 29 years 3,740 3,660 45 20
30 to 34 years 3,750 3,635 60 35
35 to 39 years 3,770 3,630 70 40
40 to 44 years 3,985 3,845 65 25
45 to 49 years 4,030 3,875 70 30
50 to 54 years 4,015 3,880 60 20
55 to 59 years 3,365 3,245 50 15
60 to 64 years 2,830 2,715 55 10
65 to 69 years 1,955 1,835 35 10
70 to 74 years 1,465 1,335 35 20
75 to 79 years 1,225 1,140 20 10
80 to 84 years 940 870 15 0
85 years and over 875 815 10 5
Median ageFootnote 2 41.0 40.8 42.8 33.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 41,280 39,690 645 300
Married or living with a common-law partner 21,345 20,390 380 165
Married (and not separated) 17,445 16,600 275 160
Living common law 3,900 3,785 105 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 19,935 19,300 265 135
Single (never legally married) 12,590 12,285 170 105
Separated 1,375 1,315 20 10
Divorced 3,885 3,795 50 15
Widowed 2,080 1,910 25 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 47,815 45,885 745 380
English only 42,400 42,400 0 0
French only 40 0 40 0
English and French 4,550 3,465 705 385
Neither English nor French 820 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 47,815 45,885 745 380
Single responses 46,670 44,840 685 345
English 31,550 31,545 0 0
French 715 60 660 0
Non-official languages 14,405 13,235 25 340
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 14,275 13,115 30 345
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 60 55 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 5
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 165 155 10 5
Armenian 80 65 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 80 80 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0
Bulgarian 120 110 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 405 365 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 420 355 0 5
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 110 105 0 5
Czech 165 160 0 0
Danish 80 80 0 0
Dutch 175 165 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 5
Finnish 55 50 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0
German 745 730 0 10
Greek 105 105 0 0
Gujarati 170 160 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 25 25 0 0
Hindi 80 85 0 0
Hungarian 190 175 0 5
Ilocano 155 160 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 385 360 0 10
Japanese 510 470 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 1,175 1,015 0 15
Kurdish 70 60 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 380 345 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 325 285 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 3,390 3,010 10 105
Polish 430 395 0 15
Portuguese 140 135 5 0
Romanian 200 165 5 35
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 380 340 0 15
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 115 105 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 45 45 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 50 50 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 235 230 0 0
Slovenian 20 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 805 750 0 30
Swahili 20 15 0 5
Swedish 55 55 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,465 1,450 0 5
Taiwanese 35 35 0 0
Tamil 25 25 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 35 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 20 0 0
Turkish 135 110 0 5
Ukrainian 65 65 0 0
Urdu 35 35 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 125 115 0 0
Multiple responses 1,145 1,045 60 35
English and French 165 125 10 30
English and non-official language 875 875 0 0
French and non-official language 70 20 50 0
English, French and non-official language 35 25 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 47,810 45,885 745 380
Single responses 45,435 43,640 670 320
English 37,370 36,985 380 0
French 300 35 265 0
Non-official languages 7,765 6,615 25 325
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 7,730 6,580 25 325
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 30 25 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 5 0 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 55 35 15 5
Armenian 60 45 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 70 60 0 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 265 210 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 255 195 0 5
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 45 40 0 5
Czech 35 35 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 80 70 0 15
Greek 40 35 0 0
Gujarati 90 75 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 60 50 0 5
Ilocano 55 55 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 85 65 0 10
Japanese 300 255 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 975 820 0 15
Kurdish 50 45 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 260 220 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) 190 140 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 2,500 2,115 10 105
Polish 195 160 0 15
Portuguese 55 45 0 5
Romanian 115 75 0 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 240 195 0 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Serbian 60 55 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 25 25 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 110 100 0 5
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 415 360 0 35
Swahili 15 10 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 685 670 0 0
Taiwanese 20 15 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 55 40 0 5
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 35 40 0 0
Multiple responses 2,375 2,250 75 60
English and French 105 25 45 35
English and non-official language 2,220 2,210 10 0
French and non-official language 15 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 35 5 5 25
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 47,810 45,885 745 380
None 39,455 38,180 375 180
Single responses 8,185 7,585 360 165
English 3,395 3,035 175 150
French 510 350 155 5
Non-official languages 4,275 4,205 25 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 5 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 4,235 4,165 30 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 65 50 15 0
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 25 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 5
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 120 120 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 95 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 40 40 0 0
Czech 75 70 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0
Dutch 45 45 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 305 300 5 5
Greek 65 65 0 0
Gujarati 90 95 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 65 60 0 0
Hungarian 50 50 0 0
Ilocano 30 30 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 190 190 0 0
Japanese 195 200 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 130 135 0 0
Kurdish 5 10 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 120 115 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 105 105 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 540 525 0 0
Polish 135 135 0 0
Portuguese 55 55 0 0
Romanian 60 55 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 80 75 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 40 45 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 20 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Sindhi 20 20 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 70 70 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 360 355 5 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 25 30 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 560 560 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 0
Turkish 45 40 0 5
Ukrainian 20 15 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 40 40 0 0
Multiple responses 170 120 15 35
English and French 35 5 0 30
English and non-official language 65 55 5 5
French and non-official language 65 55 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 47,810 45,885 740 385
English 45,885 45,885 0 0
French 745 0 745 0
English and French 385 0 0 385
Neither English nor French 805 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 935 0 745 190
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.0 0.0 100.0 49.4

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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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Footnote 6

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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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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