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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 Clarington, MU
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 84,195 82,555 1,400 70
0 to 4 years 4,845 4,780 35 10
5 to 9 years 5,265 5,200 45 10
10 to 14 years 6,045 5,985 45 10
15 to 19 years 6,945 6,880 50 5
20 to 24 years 5,100 5,060 35 5
25 to 29 years 4,685 4,625 50 0
30 to 34 years 5,350 5,245 95 0
35 to 39 years 5,715 5,590 120 0
40 to 44 years 6,365 6,210 140 5
45 to 49 years 7,955 7,765 170 10
50 to 54 years 6,700 6,560 130 5
55 to 59 years 5,090 4,950 125 5
60 to 64 years 4,245 4,115 105 0
65 to 69 years 3,315 3,215 90 0
70 to 74 years 2,385 2,295 75 0
75 to 79 years 1,830 1,785 35 0
80 to 84 years 1,315 1,275 25 0
85 years and over 1,045 1,010 15 0
Median ageFootnote 2 38.4 38.2 47.4 17.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 68,040 66,585 1,260 40
Married or living with a common-law partner 42,800 41,745 935 25
Married (and not separated) 36,705 35,790 790 25
Living common law 6,100 5,955 145 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 25,240 24,840 335 15
Single (never legally married) 16,945 16,755 175 10
Separated 2,145 2,100 40 5
Divorced 3,195 3,135 60 0
Widowed 2,950 2,850 60 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 84,195 82,555 1,395 75
English only 78,060 78,060 0 0
French only 35 0 35 0
English and French 5,920 4,485 1,365 75
Neither English nor French 185 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 84,200 82,550 1,400 75
Single responses 83,585 81,990 1,375 40
English 76,815 76,810 0 0
French 1,480 110 1,370 0
Non-official languages 5,290 5,065 10 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 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 6 5,215 4,990 10 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 165 145 5 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 55 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 65 0 5
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 50 45 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 25 20 0 0
Dutch 695 690 0 5
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 40 40 0 0
Flemish 15 20 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 565 565 0 0
Greek 135 130 0 0
Gujarati 35 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 20 10 0 0
Hungarian 195 185 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 585 565 5 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 65 55 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 60 55 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 40 40 0 0
Mandarin 45 40 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 50 55 0 0
Pashto 10 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 90 85 0 0
Polish 625 600 0 10
Portuguese 360 335 0 0
Romanian 35 30 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 65 60 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 30 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 300 260 0 5
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 155 155 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 195 190 0 0
Urdu 45 45 0 0
Vietnamese 45 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 75 75 0 0
Multiple responses 615 565 20 30
English and French 180 150 5 25
English and non-official language 390 390 0 0
French and non-official language 30 15 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 84,200 82,555 1,400 75
Single responses 83,370 81,825 1,335 35
English 81,610 80,675 940 0
French 425 30 395 0
Non-official languages 1,340 1,125 5 40
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 1,315 1,105 5 35
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 55 40 0 5
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 10 5 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 35 0 5
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 40 30 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 55 50 0 0
Greek 20 15 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 5
Hungarian 50 45 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 115 95 0 5
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 55 45 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 30 25 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) 30 30 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 50 50 0 0
Polish 215 185 0 10
Portuguese 90 70 0 0
Romanian 15 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 25 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 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 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 115 75 0 5
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 45 45 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 0 0
Urdu 20 15 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 25 20 0 0
Multiple responses 825 730 60 35
English and French 105 20 50 30
English and non-official language 700 700 0 0
French and non-official language 10 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 84,200 82,555 1,400 70
None 80,045 79,125 720 45
Single responses 4,065 3,360 670 25
English 845 560 250 25
French 1,145 745 400 0
Non-official languages 2,075 2,060 15 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 0 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 2,020 2,005 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 70 65 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 30 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 210 205 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 185 185 0 0
Greek 85 90 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 55 55 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 245 240 0 0
Japanese 5 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 20 15 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 15 10 0 0
Mandarin 10 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 30 0 0
Polish 220 220 0 0
Portuguese 165 165 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 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. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 180 180 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 75 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 85 85 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 55 55 0 0
Multiple responses 80 70 10 5
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 10 10 5 0
French and non-official language 65 55 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 84,200 82,555 1,400 70
English 82,555 82,555 0 0
French 1,395 0 1,395 0
English and French 75 0 0 75
Neither English nor French 175 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,435 0 1,395 40
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.7 0.0 99.6 57.1

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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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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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Footnote 16

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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