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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 Vernon, 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 37,270 36,560 460 55
0 to 4 years 1,830 1,790 5 0
5 to 9 years 1,750 1,740 5 5
10 to 14 years 1,775 1,760 10 5
15 to 19 years 2,240 2,225 5 5
20 to 24 years 2,160 2,135 15 5
25 to 29 years 2,060 2,045 10 0
30 to 34 years 2,105 2,075 20 0
35 to 39 years 2,080 2,050 20 0
40 to 44 years 2,210 2,170 25 0
45 to 49 years 2,655 2,620 30 0
50 to 54 years 2,935 2,865 50 10
55 to 59 years 2,710 2,645 55 0
60 to 64 years 2,585 2,520 40 0
65 to 69 years 2,180 2,115 40 5
70 to 74 years 1,850 1,800 30 5
75 to 79 years 1,615 1,560 40 5
80 to 84 years 1,345 1,305 30 0
85 years and over 1,180 1,140 25 5
Median ageFootnote 3 45.9 45.6 57.8 41.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 31,910 31,265 440 45
Married or living with a common-law partner 17,880 17,485 275 25
Married (and not separated) 14,705 14,350 230 25
Living common law 3,180 3,125 50 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 14,030 13,785 170 20
Single (never legally married) 7,505 7,420 55 10
Separated 1,110 1,095 15 0
Divorced 2,820 2,760 45 5
Widowed 2,595 2,500 60 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 37,270 36,565 460 55
English only 34,730 34,730 0 0
French only 5 0 10 0
English and French 2,335 1,825 455 55
Neither English nor French 200 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 37,275 36,560 460 55
Single responses 36,960 36,260 450 50
English 32,725 32,725 0 0
French 535 90 450 0
Non-official languages 3,700 3,450 5 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 15 0 0
Dene 0 5 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 7 3,645 3,395 5 50
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 35 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 40 25 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 25 20 0 0
Armenian 0 5 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 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 45 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 65 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 35 35 0 0
Czech 35 35 0 0
Danish 30 25 0 0
Dutch 305 300 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 20 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,000 980 0 10
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 75 75 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 90 80 0 0
Japanese 70 60 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 405 335 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 20 0 5
Polish 105 95 0 5
Portuguese 45 45 0 5
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 225 200 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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 30 25 0 0
Slovenian 10 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 120 115 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 100 100 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 10 0 0
Ukrainian 315 315 0 5
Urdu 50 40 0 0
Vietnamese 80 60 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 40 40 0 0
Multiple responses 315 300 10 5
English and French 60 55 0 5
English and non-official language 240 235 0 0
French and non-official language 20 10 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 37,270 36,565 460 55
Single responses 36,825 36,140 440 45
English 35,600 35,250 355 0
French 110 30 85 0
Non-official languages 1,110 870 0 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 5 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 11 1,100 860 0 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 35 25 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 5 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 30 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 50 40 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 40 30 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 150 130 0 5
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 5 0 0
Japanese 30 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 40 30 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 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) 270 195 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 20 15 0 5
Portuguese 15 10 0 5
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 85 65 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. 5 0 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 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 50 45 0 0
Swahili 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 0
Urdu 30 25 0 0
Vietnamese 55 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 10 10 0 0
Multiple responses 450 420 20 10
English and French 30 10 15 5
English and non-official language 410 405 5 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 37,270 36,560 460 55
None 35,195 34,700 295 25
Single responses 2,040 1,825 165 25
English 530 455 50 20
French 335 225 110 0
Non-official languages 1,170 1,150 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 5 10 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,135 1,110 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 70 70 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 350 350 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 25 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 85 80 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 35 30 0 0
Portuguese 20 20 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0
Russian 65 65 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. 15 15 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 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 95 90 0 0
Swahili 5 0 5 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 55 55 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 40 30 0 5
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 5 5 0 0
French and non-official language 25 25 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 37,275 36,560 460 55
English 36,560 36,560 0 0
French 460 0 460 0
English and French 55 0 0 55
Neither English nor French 195 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 485 0 460 30
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.3 0.0 100.0 54.5

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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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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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