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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. 1
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 260,010 258,710 880 115
0 to 4 years 13,380 13,260 40 5
5 to 9 years 13,130 13,075 35 10
10 to 14 years 13,520 13,470 30 5
15 to 19 years 14,885 14,830 30 15
20 to 24 years 18,215 18,135 55 10
25 to 29 years 17,260 17,150 75 15
30 to 34 years 16,725 16,620 80 10
35 to 39 years 17,685 17,585 75 10
40 to 44 years 19,035 18,945 60 10
45 to 49 years 21,145 21,035 85 0
50 to 54 years 21,020 20,920 80 0
55 to 59 years 20,180 20,090 65 5
60 to 64 years 17,995 17,900 70 5
65 to 69 years 13,200 13,150 35 0
70 to 74 years 8,880 8,840 25 5
75 to 79 years 6,190 6,160 20 0
80 to 84 years 4,200 4,185 10 0
85 years and over 3,355 3,345 5 0
Median ageFootnote 2 41.4 41.4 41.2 26.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 219,980 218,905 775 85
Married or living with a common-law partner 130,615 129,940 520 45
Married (and not separated) 110,355 109,845 365 40
Living common law 20,260 20,095 150 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 89,370 88,965 255 45
Single (never legally married) 60,805 60,530 165 35
Separated 4,820 4,800 15 0
Divorced 11,310 11,265 45 0
Widowed 12,435 12,380 25 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 260,010 258,710 880 115
English only 243,870 243,875 0 0
French only 45 0 40 0
English and French 15,760 14,805 840 115
Neither English nor French 335 35 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 260,005 258,710 880 110
Single responses 259,330 258,120 835 75
English 253,590 253,590 5 0
French 990 185 810 0
Non-official languages 4,750 4,350 20 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 50 50 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 20 20 0 0
Inuktitut 25 25 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 4,510 4,125 20 70
African languages, n.i.e. 60 55 0 0
Afrikaans 30 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 95 80 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 395 345 0 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 20 5 0
Bengali 195 180 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 50 45 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 110 95 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 755 705 0 10
Creoles 10 15 5 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 35 30 0 5
Dutch 55 55 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 215 210 0 5
Greek 40 45 0 0
Gujarati 35 35 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 5 10 0 0
Hindi 75 75 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Italian 55 55 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 60 55 0 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 165 150 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0
Nepali 50 35 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Norwegian 35 35 0 5
Oromo 15 15 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 60 0 0
Pashto 15 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 95 0 5
Polish 80 75 0 0
Portuguese 65 60 0 5
Romanian 30 25 5 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 185 160 5 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 10 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 50 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 365 325 0 15
Swahili 30 15 0 5
Swedish 20 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 125 125 0 0
Taiwanese 25 20 0 0
Tamil 65 70 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 0
Ukrainian 20 15 0 0
Urdu 140 135 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 190 170 5 0
Multiple responses 675 590 45 35
English and French 250 185 25 35
English and non-official language 380 385 0 0
French and non-official language 30 10 20 0
English, French and non-official language 20 15 5 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 260,010 258,710 880 115
Single responses 259,110 257,905 840 65
English 256,320 255,785 540 0
French 440 145 290 0
Non-official languages 2,355 1,975 10 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 15 15 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 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 2,250 1,895 10 65
African languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Afrikaans 10 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 75 55 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 260 210 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 90 85 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 60 50 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 515 465 0 5
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 25 20 0 5
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 0 5 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 120 105 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 55 40 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 20 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 55 50 0 5
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 10 15 0 0
Romanian 15 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 105 80 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 75 45 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 195 160 0 10
Swahili 20 10 0 5
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 40 40 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 25 30 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 65 60 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 85 65 5 0
Multiple responses 895 800 45 45
English and French 145 80 30 35
English and non-official language 715 710 0 0
French and non-official language 10 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 30 10 10 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 260,010 258,715 880 110
None 255,085 254,275 470 65
Single responses 4,805 4,340 395 35
English 1,190 985 150 30
French 1,640 1,415 230 0
Non-official languages 1,975 1,945 20 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 25 25 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 10 10 0 0
Inuktitut 10 15 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,795 1,760 20 5
African languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Afrikaans 20 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 145 145 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 50 50 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 145 140 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 10 15 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 25 25 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 115 110 0 0
Greek 30 30 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 65 65 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 35 30 0 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 30 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 10 5 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 50 45 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Norwegian 35 35 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 25 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 20 25 0 0
Portuguese 30 30 5 0
Romanian 15 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 70 70 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 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 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 230 230 5 0
Swahili 10 5 5 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 50 45 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0
Urdu 65 65 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 155 155 0 0
Multiple responses 120 85 15 10
English and French 15 0 0 15
English and non-official language 25 20 10 0
French and non-official language 80 70 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 260,010 258,715 880 115
English 258,710 258,710 0 0
French 885 0 880 0
English and French 110 0 0 115
Neither English nor French 300 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 940 0 880 55
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 0.4 0.0 100.0 47.8

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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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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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