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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 Waterloo, 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 97,980 94,990 1,085 655
0 to 4 years 4,985 4,585 40 15
5 to 9 years 5,760 5,620 50 65
10 to 14 years 6,020 5,860 35 110
15 to 19 years 7,200 7,060 35 95
20 to 24 years 9,455 9,305 80 55
25 to 29 years 6,740 6,635 55 40
30 to 34 years 5,990 5,850 75 45
35 to 39 years 6,395 6,245 90 40
40 to 44 years 7,285 7,120 85 40
45 to 49 years 7,885 7,645 110 40
50 to 54 years 7,400 7,170 115 25
55 to 59 years 6,075 5,890 90 20
60 to 64 years 4,960 4,795 80 15
65 to 69 years 3,625 3,475 40 15
70 to 74 years 2,760 2,595 40 10
75 to 79 years 2,285 2,135 30 10
80 to 84 years 1,780 1,695 25 5
85 years and over 1,370 1,305 10 0
Median ageFootnote 2 37.3 37.1 45.1 22.4
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 81,215 78,920 960 460
Married or living with a common-law partner 47,715 46,235 640 240
Married (and not separated) 42,690 41,310 560 230
Living common law 5,030 4,925 80 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 33,495 32,685 320 225
Single (never legally married) 24,695 24,245 210 200
Separated 1,840 1,795 25 5
Divorced 3,525 3,440 45 5
Widowed 3,435 3,210 40 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 97,980 94,990 1,085 660
English only 87,915 87,915 0 0
French only 50 0 50 0
English and French 8,730 7,040 1,035 660
Neither English nor French 1,285 35 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 97,980 94,985 1,085 655
Single responses 96,405 93,510 1,030 610
English 71,425 71,425 0 0
French 1,060 80 980 0
Non-official languages 23,915 22,010 50 610
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 5 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 23,665 21,775 45 605
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0
Albanian 45 45 0 0
Amharic 60 55 0 0
Arabic 1,260 1,115 10 55
Armenian 110 105 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Bengali 245 230 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 5 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 45 0 0
Bulgarian 55 50 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 630 580 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,680 2,420 0 30
Creoles 15 5 0 5
Croatian 255 245 0 0
Czech 155 145 0 5
Danish 65 65 0 5
Dutch 370 360 0 10
Estonian 30 30 0 0
Finnish 40 40 0 0
Flemish 25 20 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 2,740 2,685 5 45
Greek 350 335 0 5
Gujarati 330 305 0 10
Hakka 10 5 0 0
Hebrew 45 40 0 10
Hindi 445 430 0 5
Hungarian 310 300 0 5
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Italian 320 305 5 5
Japanese 150 125 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0
Korean 875 790 0 20
Kurdish 65 60 0 0
Lao 120 110 0 0
Latvian 25 25 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 30 30 0 0
Macedonian 40 35 0 5
Malay 75 70 0 0
Malayalam 80 80 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 1,885 1,635 0 25
Marathi 70 65 0 5
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 20 10 5 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 770 675 0 20
Pashto 60 60 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 980 885 0 25
Polish 1,060 1,015 0 25
Portuguese 415 385 0 15
Romanian 730 630 0 65
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 680 580 5 35
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Serbian 750 665 0 40
Serbo-Croatian 100 90 0 5
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 50 50 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 95 95 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 45 45 0 0
Slovak 100 95 0 5
Slovenian 40 40 0 0
Somali 115 105 0 0
Spanish 1,090 985 0 60
Swahili 25 25 0 5
Swedish 40 40 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 240 235 0 0
Taiwanese 50 40 0 0
Tamil 240 230 0 5
Telugu 145 135 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 0 0
Turkish 225 205 5 0
Ukrainian 180 175 0 5
Urdu 735 700 0 10
Vietnamese 385 345 0 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 250 225 5 5
Multiple responses 1,575 1,475 50 45
English and French 230 180 15 35
English and non-official language 1,250 1,245 0 0
French and non-official language 55 20 35 0
English, French and non-official language 35 20 5 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 97,980 94,990 1,085 655
Single responses 94,790 91,940 1,015 585
English 82,100 81,450 650 0
French 370 30 340 0
Non-official languages 12,325 10,460 25 590
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 12,210 10,365 20 590
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0
Albanian 20 15 0 0
Amharic 25 20 0 5
Arabic 700 565 0 55
Armenian 60 50 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 155 140 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 30 20 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 350 300 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,850 1,600 0 30
Creoles 10 0 0 5
Croatian 85 75 0 0
Czech 55 45 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0
Dutch 40 30 5 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 485 435 0 45
Greek 125 110 0 5
Gujarati 155 130 0 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 35 25 0 10
Hindi 180 165 0 0
Hungarian 95 90 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Italian 60 45 0 10
Japanese 90 65 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 620 540 0 20
Kurdish 45 35 0 0
Lao 65 50 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 25 15 0 5
Malay 20 20 0 0
Malayalam 45 40 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,480 1,215 5 30
Marathi 20 15 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 470 380 0 20
Pashto 50 45 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 710 615 0 25
Polish 485 440 0 20
Portuguese 165 135 0 15
Romanian 330 230 5 65
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5
Russian 420 325 0 35
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Serbian 515 440 0 35
Serbo-Croatian 45 35 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 20 15 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 70 65 0 5
Spanish 620 515 0 55
Swahili 10 5 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 75 0 0
Taiwanese 25 15 0 0
Tamil 115 105 0 5
Telugu 75 70 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 100 85 0 0
Ukrainian 55 50 0 5
Urdu 415 385 0 10
Vietnamese 255 205 0 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 115 95 5 0
Multiple responses 3,190 3,050 70 65
English and French 120 35 40 45
English and non-official language 2,985 2,980 0 0
French and non-official language 15 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 65 25 15 30
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 97,980 94,985 1,085 660
None 83,295 81,370 525 260
Single responses 14,395 13,395 530 345
English 6,070 5,440 210 335
French 940 660 275 5
Non-official languages 7,385 7,295 50 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 15 15 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 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 15 15 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 7,265 7,175 45 10
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0
Amharic 25 30 0 0
Arabic 435 420 15 0
Armenian 40 40 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 70 70 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 25 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 215 210 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 545 540 0 0
Creoles 15 15 0 0
Croatian 105 105 0 0
Czech 60 60 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 85 85 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 20 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 950 950 5 0
Greek 175 175 0 0
Gujarati 115 115 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 35 30 0 5
Hindi 310 310 0 0
Hungarian 70 75 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 115 110 5 5
Japanese 55 55 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 150 150 0 0
Kurdish 15 15 0 0
Lao 35 35 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 20 25 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 395 395 0 0
Marathi 25 25 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 5 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 210 210 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 170 165 0 0
Polish 290 290 0 0
Portuguese 150 145 5 0
Romanian 220 220 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 160 160 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Serbian 150 150 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 30 30 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 15 15 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 30 30 0 0
Spanish 495 485 10 0
Swahili 20 25 0 5
Swedish 15 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 135 130 0 0
Taiwanese 5 10 0 0
Tamil 115 115 0 0
Telugu 60 60 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 95 90 0 0
Ukrainian 40 35 0 0
Urdu 255 255 0 0
Vietnamese 95 85 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 105 105 0 0
Multiple responses 290 220 25 45
English and French 45 5 5 35
English and non-official language 130 105 15 5
French and non-official language 115 105 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 97,980 94,985 1,085 660
English 94,990 94,985 0 0
French 1,085 0 1,085 0
English and French 660 0 0 655
Neither English nor French 1,250 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,410 0 1,085 330
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.4 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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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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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