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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 Whitchurch-Stouffville, T
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 37,345 36,285 360 125
0 to 4 years 2,670 2,585 5 0
5 to 9 years 2,365 2,335 5 15
10 to 14 years 2,240 2,200 20 20
15 to 19 years 2,255 2,215 15 20
20 to 24 years 1,950 1,935 5 10
25 to 29 years 2,145 2,125 10 5
30 to 34 years 2,820 2,765 25 15
35 to 39 years 2,890 2,835 25 10
40 to 44 years 2,800 2,735 35 10
45 to 49 years 2,840 2,750 50 0
50 to 54 years 2,740 2,660 45 5
55 to 59 years 2,320 2,225 40 5
60 to 64 years 2,230 2,160 15 0
65 to 69 years 1,635 1,560 20 0
70 to 74 years 1,250 1,155 25 5
75 to 79 years 1,020 945 15 5
80 to 84 years 680 635 0 0
85 years and over 500 465 0 0
Median ageFootnote 2 38.9 38.5 48.7 24.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 30,075 29,165 330 90
Married or living with a common-law partner 20,320 19,680 245 55
Married (and not separated) 18,385 17,790 205 45
Living common law 1,935 1,890 40 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 9,755 9,490 85 35
Single (never legally married) 6,615 6,535 40 30
Separated 680 655 15 0
Divorced 1,155 1,130 10 0
Widowed 1,305 1,170 20 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 37,350 36,290 355 125
English only 34,250 34,250 0 0
French only 10 0 10 0
English and French 2,495 2,025 345 125
Neither English nor French 590 10 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 37,350 36,285 355 125
Single responses 36,510 35,480 340 105
English 27,400 27,400 5 0
French 360 30 330 0
Non-official languages 8,750 8,055 10 105
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 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 6 8,715 8,025 10 100
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 5 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 35 30 0 0
Amharic 5 10 0 0
Arabic 195 185 0 5
Armenian 90 85 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 15 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 1,145 985 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 675 575 0 5
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 25 30 0 0
Czech 30 25 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 145 140 0 5
Estonian 20 20 0 0
Finnish 55 55 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 400 395 0 0
Greek 380 370 0 0
Gujarati 160 140 0 5
Hakka 25 20 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 90 90 0 5
Hungarian 130 120 0 5
Ilocano 15 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 1,115 1,055 5 0
Japanese 25 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 105 95 0 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 10 5 0 5
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 275 265 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 330 285 0 5
Marathi 0 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 110 105 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 155 145 0 5
Polish 165 160 0 5
Portuguese 210 205 0 0
Romanian 145 120 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 170 160 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 45 40 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 20 25 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 35 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 35 30 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 290 250 0 15
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 345 340 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 760 685 0 15
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0
Ukrainian 50 45 0 5
Urdu 280 265 0 5
Vietnamese 75 65 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 35 30 0 5
Multiple responses 840 805 10 20
English and French 80 60 0 15
English and non-official language 730 725 0 0
French and non-official language 20 10 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 37,345 36,290 360 125
Single responses 35,820 34,815 330 100
English 31,670 31,435 235 0
French 100 10 90 0
Non-official languages 4,050 3,365 0 95
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 4,035 3,355 0 100
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 70 60 0 5
Armenian 35 30 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 880 715 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 435 340 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 45 35 0 0
Greek 95 85 0 5
Gujarati 80 65 0 0
Hakka 10 10 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0
Hungarian 40 35 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 245 200 0 5
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 70 60 0 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 5
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 115 100 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 220 175 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 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) 35 30 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 80 60 0 5
Polish 50 45 0 0
Portuguese 40 35 0 0
Romanian 80 60 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 115 95 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 20 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 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 125 85 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 105 105 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 560 490 0 10
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0
Ukrainian 15 10 0 0
Urdu 175 160 0 5
Vietnamese 35 30 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 10 0 0
Multiple responses 1,530 1,475 30 30
English and French 55 15 15 20
English and non-official language 1,445 1,445 5 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 37,350 36,285 360 125
None 31,855 31,070 195 50
Single responses 5,400 5,135 160 75
English 1,865 1,730 55 65
French 315 225 90 0
Non-official languages 3,215 3,185 15 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 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 14 3,195 3,165 10 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 15 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 80 80 0 5
Armenian 40 40 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 295 290 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 135 130 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 55 55 0 0
Estonian 20 15 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 165 160 0 5
Greek 285 285 0 0
Gujarati 45 45 0 0
Hakka 5 10 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 60 55 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 550 545 5 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 120 120 0 0
Malay 10 15 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 75 75 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 65 60 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 45 0 0
Polish 60 60 0 0
Portuguese 110 110 0 0
Romanian 35 30 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 45 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 140 135 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 125 125 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 145 150 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 15 20 0 0
Urdu 85 85 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 20 20 0 5
Multiple responses 95 90 0 0
English and French 5 0 5 0
English and non-official language 25 25 0 0
French and non-official language 65 60 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 37,350 36,285 355 130
English 36,290 36,285 0 0
French 360 0 360 0
English and French 125 0 0 125
Neither English nor French 575 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 425 0 355 65
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.1 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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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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