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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 Brooks, CYFootnote 1
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 2 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 13,400 12,860 240 45
0 to 4 years 1,195 1,125 20 5
5 to 9 years 910 880 10 0
10 to 14 years 825 815 5 5
15 to 19 years 755 745 10 0
20 to 24 years 845 825 10 5
25 to 29 years 1,240 1,200 25 5
30 to 34 years 1,365 1,295 20 10
35 to 39 years 1,205 1,150 25 0
40 to 44 years 1,055 995 30 5
45 to 49 years 895 855 25 0
50 to 54 years 850 805 30 5
55 to 59 years 690 670 10 0
60 to 64 years 530 510 10 0
65 to 69 years 370 355 5 0
70 to 74 years 225 220 0 0
75 to 79 years 180 175 5 0
80 to 84 years 125 115 0 0
85 years and over 135 135 0 0
Median ageFootnote 3 33.4 33.3 38.0 32.4
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 10,465 10,045 205 35
Married or living with a common-law partner 6,510 6,235 120 20
Married (and not separated) 5,320 5,070 95 20
Living common law 1,185 1,160 20 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 3,950 3,810 85 15
Single (never legally married) 2,680 2,595 50 15
Separated 305 280 15 0
Divorced 575 555 15 0
Widowed 395 375 5 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 13,395 12,860 240 45
English only 12,645 12,645 0 0
French only 55 0 55 0
English and French 425 200 180 45
Neither English nor French 270 15 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 13,395 12,860 240 45
Single responses 13,125 12,610 220 45
English 9,800 9,800 0 0
French 200 20 175 0
Non-official languages 3,125 2,785 40 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 5 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 7 3,075 2,740 40 40
African languages, n.i.e. 185 175 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 90 80 0 0
Arabic 270 245 5 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 10 5 5
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 50 50 0 0
Bosnian 15 20 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 225 140 0 0
Creoles 15 10 0 10
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 45 45 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 195 185 0 0
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 20 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 105 95 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 25 25 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 5 5 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 50 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 35 0 10
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 225 195 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 60 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 15 10 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0
Russian 25 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 145 125 5 5
Spanish 310 260 0 5
Swahili 30 5 10 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 530 525 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 50 50 0 0
Urdu 80 80 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 40 40 0 5
Multiple responses 275 250 25 0
English and French 30 25 0 0
English and non-official language 220 215 0 0
French and non-official language 25 10 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 13,400 12,860 240 45
Single responses 12,845 12,340 210 40
English 10,655 10,580 80 0
French 125 10 120 0
Non-official languages 2,060 1,755 15 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 2,040 1,740 10 35
African languages, n.i.e. 105 100 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 55 50 0 0
Arabic 180 160 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 195 110 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 5
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 40 30 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 15 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 85 75 0 5
Korean 30 30 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 50 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 15 5 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 180 155 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 30 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 0 5 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 120 100 5 5
Spanish 240 200 0 5
Swahili 15 5 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 410 405 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 25 15 5 5
Multiple responses 555 525 25 10
English and French 15 5 10 0
English and non-official language 515 515 0 0
French and non-official language 15 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 5 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 13,400 12,865 235 45
None 11,725 11,335 135 25
Single responses 1,630 1,490 100 15
English 875 815 35 10
French 65 30 30 0
Non-official languages 690 650 35 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 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 15 670 630 30 0
African languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 20 25 0 0
Arabic 105 105 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 5 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 10 15 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 35 30 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 0 5 0
Japanese 0 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0
Korean 5 10 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 10 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 5 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 25 20 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 10 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 25 25 0 0
Spanish 55 55 0 0
Swahili 10 5 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 90 85 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 20 20 0 0
Multiple responses 45 30 10 5
English and French 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 25 20 5 0
French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 13,400 12,860 235 45
English 12,865 12,860 0 0
French 240 0 240 0
English and French 45 0 0 45
Neither English nor French 255 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 260 0 235 25
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.9 0.0 100.0 55.6

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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Footnote 2

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 13

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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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 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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Footnote 19

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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