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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 Prince George, 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 71,120 69,850 920 80
0 to 4 years 4,475 4,430 10 5
5 to 9 years 4,075 4,060 10 5
10 to 14 years 4,375 4,345 20 10
15 to 19 years 5,150 5,110 20 10
20 to 24 years 5,250 5,225 15 0
25 to 29 years 5,005 4,955 40 5
30 to 34 years 4,565 4,510 45 5
35 to 39 years 4,720 4,655 50 10
40 to 44 years 5,000 4,925 70 0
45 to 49 years 5,535 5,465 65 5
50 to 54 years 5,610 5,505 95 10
55 to 59 years 5,130 5,015 105 5
60 to 64 years 4,145 4,000 110 5
65 to 69 years 2,905 2,770 95 0
70 to 74 years 2,060 1,985 45 0
75 to 79 years 1,490 1,410 40 5
80 to 84 years 955 880 45 0
85 years and over 675 620 35 0
Median ageFootnote 3 37.9 37.6 55.8 34.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 58,195 57,020 875 60
Married or living with a common-law partner 32,695 31,980 555 35
Married (and not separated) 26,090 25,485 455 30
Living common law 6,605 6,500 100 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 25,500 25,045 320 25
Single (never legally married) 16,855 16,695 125 20
Separated 2,220 2,170 40 0
Divorced 3,645 3,565 75 0
Widowed 2,775 2,610 75 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 71,120 69,850 920 75
English only 67,095 67,100 0 0
French only 15 0 15 0
English and French 3,710 2,730 905 75
Neither English nor French 295 25 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 71,120 69,850 920 75
Single responses 70,425 69,190 905 55
English 62,700 62,700 0 0
French 1,065 175 890 0
Non-official languages 6,660 6,315 10 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 75 80 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 70 70 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 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 6,335 5,995 10 50
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Afrikaans 30 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 120 115 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Bengali 30 25 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 40 40 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 0
Burmese 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 150 135 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 300 270 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 190 185 0 0
Czech 25 30 0 0
Danish 85 85 0 0
Dutch 270 260 5 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 90 90 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,055 1,050 0 5
Greek 75 80 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 65 65 0 0
Hungarian 85 90 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 280 280 0 0
Japanese 70 65 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 90 80 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 15 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 85 80 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 5
Norwegian 50 55 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,280 1,120 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 150 150 0 0
Portuguese 250 235 0 0
Romanian 55 50 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 10 0 5
Russian 75 75 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 30 30 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 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 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 35 30 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 185 175 0 5
Swahili 25 15 0 10
Swedish 35 35 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 365 355 0 0
Taiwanese 5 10 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 210 210 0 0
Urdu 40 40 0 0
Vietnamese 45 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 250 245 0 0
Multiple responses 695 655 15 25
English and French 150 125 5 25
English and non-official language 505 500 0 0
French and non-official language 30 25 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 71,120 69,850 915 75
Single responses 70,190 68,990 875 50
English 67,590 66,930 665 0
French 215 20 200 0
Non-official languages 2,380 2,040 15 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 10 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 11 2,330 1,995 10 50
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 75 75 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 25 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 75 55 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 190 160 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 55 55 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 20 20 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 90 85 0 10
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 60 60 0 5
Japanese 25 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 70 60 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 80 75 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 875 715 5 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0
Polish 25 20 0 0
Portuguese 75 60 0 0
Romanian 20 15 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0
Russian 15 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 20 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 5 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 75 60 0 10
Swahili 10 0 5 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 110 105 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 35 35 0 5
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 40 40 0 0
Multiple responses 920 855 40 30
English and French 70 15 35 20
English and non-official language 840 835 5 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 71,115 69,845 920 80
None 66,725 65,865 550 50
Single responses 4,315 3,915 360 25
English 1,140 980 130 25
French 690 480 215 0
Non-official languages 2,480 2,465 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 65 65 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 60 60 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 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 2,165 2,140 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 40 40 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5 0
Bengali 10 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 50 45 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 75 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 85 85 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0
Dutch 65 65 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 325 325 0 0
Greek 45 45 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 35 30 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 130 125 0 0
Japanese 45 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 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) 330 330 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 55 55 0 0
Portuguese 105 105 0 0
Romanian 20 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 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. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 155 155 0 0
Swahili 15 10 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 170 165 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 45 40 0 0
Urdu 5 10 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 255 260 0 0
Multiple responses 80 65 10 5
English and French 5 0 5 5
English and non-official language 15 5 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 17 71,115 69,850 915 75
English 69,850 69,850 0 0
French 915 0 915 0
English and French 75 0 0 75
Neither English nor French 275 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 955 0 920 40
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.3 0.0 100.0 53.3

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

In 2006, the population and/or dwelling counts for this census subdivision were found to be incorrect. Since it is not possible to make changes to the 2006 Census data presented in these tables, the 2006 data should be used with caution. For further details, please refer to the Population and dwelling count amendments, 2011 Census.

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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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Footnote 14

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 17

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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