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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 Chatham-Kent, 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 102,360 99,155 2,525 85
0 to 4 years 5,510 5,270 45 15
5 to 9 years 5,765 5,670 45 10
10 to 14 years 6,330 6,250 55 0
15 to 19 years 6,960 6,880 70 10
20 to 24 years 6,000 5,910 80 10
25 to 29 years 5,510 5,400 85 0
30 to 34 years 5,225 5,110 90 5
35 to 39 years 5,550 5,420 95 0
40 to 44 years 6,340 6,145 165 5
45 to 49 years 8,205 7,950 230 5
50 to 54 years 8,575 8,305 245 5
55 to 59 years 7,675 7,385 270 0
60 to 64 years 7,130 6,815 280 5
65 to 69 years 5,415 5,150 235 5
70 to 74 years 4,295 4,080 185 0
75 to 79 years 3,285 3,095 160 0
80 to 84 years 2,520 2,370 115 5
85 years and over 2,065 1,960 75 0
Median ageFootnote 2 43.4 43.0 56.2 25.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 84,755 81,970 2,385 60
Married or living with a common-law partner 51,110 49,225 1,605 25
Married (and not separated) 43,905 42,235 1,400 25
Living common law 7,205 6,995 205 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 33,640 32,740 775 35
Single (never legally married) 20,025 19,665 325 25
Separated 2,850 2,780 65 0
Divorced 5,020 4,850 155 5
Widowed 5,745 5,450 230 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 102,355 99,155 2,530 90
English only 94,615 94,615 0 0
French only 75 0 75 0
English and French 7,065 4,525 2,450 90
Neither English nor French 605 20 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 102,355 99,155 2,525 90
Single responses 101,450 98,320 2,495 50
English 89,795 89,790 5 0
French 2,915 435 2,485 0
Non-official languages 8,735 8,095 10 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 10 10 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 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 8,665 8,020 10 45
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 85 80 0 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 55 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 90 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 40 40 0 0
Czech 210 210 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0
Dutch 1,330 1,330 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 210 210 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 3,000 2,660 0 5
Greek 130 125 0 0
Gujarati 45 35 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 20 25 0 0
Hungarian 150 155 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 515 480 0 5
Japanese 15 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 140 135 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 35 30 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 15 0 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0
Mandarin 50 40 0 5
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 70 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 30 0 0
Polish 430 410 0 5
Portuguese 645 575 5 5
Romanian 65 60 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 10 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 40 40 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 110 110 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 225 185 0 15
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 95 95 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 40 20 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 130 120 0 0
Urdu 120 115 0 0
Vietnamese 215 190 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 65 65 0 0
Multiple responses 910 835 30 45
English and French 360 310 15 35
English and non-official language 490 490 5 0
French and non-official language 40 20 15 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 102,355 99,155 2,525 90
Single responses 101,270 98,220 2,420 50
English 97,035 95,215 1,820 0
French 645 55 590 0
Non-official languages 3,590 2,950 10 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 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 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 3,575 2,935 10 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 5
Armenian 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 55 0 0
Creoles 5 5 5 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 85 80 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,820 1,485 0 5
Greek 50 45 0 0
Gujarati 30 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 20 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 150 120 0 5
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 100 95 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 20 15 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 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 50 40 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 40 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 185 170 5 0
Portuguese 280 210 5 0
Romanian 20 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 120 75 0 15
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 20 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 35 15 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 10 0 0
Urdu 95 85 0 0
Vietnamese 140 115 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 15 10 0 0
Multiple responses 1,090 935 115 45
English and French 200 55 105 40
English and non-official language 875 870 5 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 102,355 99,155 2,525 90
None 96,060 93,905 1,545 70
Single responses 6,210 5,170 970 20
English 1,780 1,425 305 15
French 1,760 1,105 655 0
Non-official languages 2,670 2,640 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 25 25 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 25 25 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 2,600 2,575 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 55 55 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 20 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 55 50 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 365 365 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 40 35 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 800 800 0 0
Greek 60 60 5 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 175 175 5 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 20 15 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 95 95 0 0
Portuguese 260 260 0 0
Romanian 30 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 10 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 35 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 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 125 125 5 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 60 55 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 40 40 0 0
Multiple responses 85 75 10 5
English and French 5 0 5 5
English and non-official language 5 10 0 0
French and non-official language 70 65 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 102,355 99,150 2,530 90
English 99,155 99,155 0 0
French 2,530 0 2,525 0
English and French 90 0 0 90
Neither English nor French 585 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,570 0 2,530 45
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.5 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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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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