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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 Fort St. John, 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 18,505 18,245 195 15
0 to 4 years 1,660 1,635 5 0
5 to 9 years 1,175 1,170 5 5
10 to 14 years 1,105 1,095 0 0
15 to 19 years 1,220 1,215 5 0
20 to 24 years 1,720 1,705 10 0
25 to 29 years 2,185 2,165 20 0
30 to 34 years 1,760 1,740 15 0
35 to 39 years 1,425 1,415 15 0
40 to 44 years 1,300 1,270 25 5
45 to 49 years 1,250 1,215 30 0
50 to 54 years 1,090 1,070 25 0
55 to 59 years 870 850 15 0
60 to 64 years 610 595 10 0
65 to 69 years 375 360 15 0
70 to 74 years 260 250 5 0
75 to 79 years 205 200 5 0
80 to 84 years 155 155 0 0
85 years and over 150 145 5 0
Median ageFootnote 2 30.5 30.4 47.2 27.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 14,575 14,350 185 10
Married or living with a common-law partner 8,435 8,295 115 5
Married (and not separated) 6,120 6,000 95 5
Living common law 2,320 2,295 25 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 6,135 6,050 70 5
Single (never legally married) 4,335 4,290 40 5
Separated 480 480 0 0
Divorced 835 810 20 5
Widowed 485 470 10 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 18,505 18,250 195 15
English only 17,495 17,500 0 0
French only 5 0 5 0
English and French 955 750 195 15
Neither English nor French 50 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 18,510 18,250 195 15
Single responses 18,365 18,115 195 10
English 16,855 16,855 0 0
French 215 20 190 0
Non-official languages 1,300 1,235 5 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 45 45 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 45 45 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 1,220 1,160 5 10
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 35 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 15 15 0 0
Arabic 15 15 0 0
Armenian 5 5 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 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 50 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 35 35 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 335 325 5 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 10 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 30 0 5
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 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 60 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 0
Portuguese 10 5 0 0
Romanian 30 30 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 65 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 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 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 55 55 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 145 145 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 25 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 35 35 0 0
Multiple responses 145 135 0 0
English and French 25 25 0 5
English and non-official language 110 110 0 0
French and non-official language 10 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 18,510 18,245 200 15
Single responses 18,335 18,080 190 10
English 17,820 17,675 145 0
French 50 0 50 0
Non-official languages 465 405 0 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 10 460 400 0 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 5 10 0 0
Armenian 5 5 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 10 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 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 85 70 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
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 15 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 25 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 5
Polish 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 20 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 20 0 0
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 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 20 15 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 80 75 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 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 0 5 0 0
Multiple responses 175 170 5 5
English and French 10 5 0 0
English and non-official language 160 160 5 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 18,505 18,250 200 15
None 17,545 17,390 105 5
Single responses 955 850 90 5
English 225 190 30 5
French 170 125 50 0
Non-official languages 555 535 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 35 35 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 30 30 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 14 485 465 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 10 10 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 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 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 110 110 0 0
Greek 0 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 0 5 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 10 0 0
Japanese 5 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 5 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 10 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 30 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. 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 45 45 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 70 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 10 15 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 35 35 0 0
Multiple responses 10 10 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 5 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 18,510 18,250 200 15
English 18,250 18,250 0 0
French 200 0 200 0
English and French 15 0 0 15
Neither English nor French 45 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 205 0 195 10
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.1 0.0 97.5 66.7

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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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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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Footnote 11

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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