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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 Sault Ste. Marie, 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 74,005 71,160 2,435 95
0 to 4 years 3,455 3,400 25 10
5 to 9 years 3,450 3,405 40 15
10 to 14 years 3,765 3,700 55 5
15 to 19 years 4,695 4,605 75 10
20 to 24 years 4,740 4,650 85 5
25 to 29 years 4,205 4,135 70 5
30 to 34 years 4,060 3,950 105 5
35 to 39 years 3,985 3,870 115 5
40 to 44 years 4,450 4,275 165 0
45 to 49 years 5,815 5,565 235 10
50 to 54 years 6,485 6,195 280 10
55 to 59 years 5,780 5,515 260 0
60 to 64 years 5,230 4,990 225 5
65 to 69 years 3,960 3,735 210 5
70 to 74 years 3,370 3,155 180 0
75 to 79 years 2,860 2,635 150 5
80 to 84 years 2,200 2,005 110 5
85 years and over 1,495 1,385 45 0
Median ageFootnote 2 45.2 44.5 54.3 30.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 63,340 60,655 2,315 65
Married or living with a common-law partner 35,950 34,305 1,460 25
Married (and not separated) 30,250 28,835 1,235 20
Living common law 5,695 5,470 230 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 27,385 26,355 850 40
Single (never legally married) 16,390 16,015 335 20
Separated 2,200 2,105 90 0
Divorced 4,270 4,045 210 10
Widowed 4,530 4,185 210 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 74,005 71,155 2,435 100
English only 66,765 66,765 0 0
French only 50 0 55 0
English and French 6,860 4,380 2,380 95
Neither English nor French 330 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 74,005 71,160 2,430 100
Single responses 73,230 70,445 2,415 50
English 63,665 63,660 0 0
French 2,655 255 2,405 0
Non-official languages 6,910 6,535 10 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 80 80 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 65 65 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 6,790 6,420 10 50
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 10 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 50 40 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 40 40 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 20 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 110 100 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 135 135 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 100 100 0 0
Estonian 85 80 0 0
Finnish 595 585 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 500 495 0 0
Greek 35 35 0 0
Gujarati 45 40 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0
Hungarian 60 60 0 5
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 3,630 3,365 5 15
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 35 30 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 40 40 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 20 15 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 15 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0
Polish 310 305 0 0
Portuguese 155 145 0 0
Romanian 20 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 30 30 0 0
Slovenian 25 20 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 200 175 0 25
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 25 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 15 20 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 200 200 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 35 35 0 5
Multiple responses 775 715 15 45
English and French 315 255 15 45
English and non-official language 430 430 0 0
French and non-official language 25 20 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 74,005 71,155 2,430 95
Single responses 73,165 70,465 2,335 45
English 70,355 68,600 1,760 0
French 615 40 570 0
Non-official languages 2,190 1,830 0 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 20 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 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 15 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 2,155 1,795 0 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 20 20 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 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 50 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 155 150 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 65 65 0 0
Greek 15 10 0 0
Gujarati 30 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 25 30 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,250 985 0 10
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 85 75 0 0
Portuguese 70 65 0 0
Romanian 5 5 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 0 0 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) 5 5 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 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 115 90 0 20
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 5 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 25 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 20 15 0 0
Multiple responses 845 690 100 50
English and French 180 40 95 50
English and non-official language 645 645 0 0
French and non-official language 10 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 74,005 71,160 2,435 95
None 68,385 66,650 1,375 70
Single responses 5,550 4,440 1,050 25
English 1,320 910 360 25
French 1,570 880 690 0
Non-official languages 2,660 2,645 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 145 140 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 130 130 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 2,495 2,490 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 25 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 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 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 60 60 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 10 0 0
Dutch 30 30 0 0
Estonian 20 20 0 0
Finnish 180 180 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 155 155 0 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,420 1,410 5 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 95 95 0 0
Portuguese 60 60 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 25 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 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 90 85 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 10 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 5 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 15 20 0 0
Multiple responses 75 70 5 5
English and French 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 5 0 0 0
French and non-official language 70 65 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 74,010 71,160 2,435 100
English 71,155 71,155 0 0
French 2,430 0 2,435 0
English and French 95 0 0 95
Neither English nor French 320 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,480 0 2,435 45
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 3.4 0.0 100.0 45.0

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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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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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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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