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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 Aurora, 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 52,790 50,980 765 345
0 to 4 years 2,965 2,790 25 10
5 to 9 years 3,445 3,350 35 45
10 to 14 years 3,995 3,900 50 40
15 to 19 years 4,475 4,390 45 40
20 to 24 years 3,535 3,480 25 20
25 to 29 years 2,320 2,280 15 15
30 to 34 years 2,655 2,585 40 15
35 to 39 years 3,590 3,495 50 25
40 to 44 years 4,430 4,280 80 35
45 to 49 years 5,175 5,000 90 25
50 to 54 years 4,820 4,645 100 25
55 to 59 years 3,525 3,405 60 15
60 to 64 years 2,605 2,510 35 10
65 to 69 years 1,645 1,540 40 10
70 to 74 years 1,215 1,125 20 5
75 to 79 years 985 895 25 5
80 to 84 years 755 700 15 0
85 years and over 670 610 10 0
Median ageFootnote 2 39.3 39.0 46.0 29.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 42,390 40,935 655 250
Married or living with a common-law partner 26,195 25,195 455 160
Married (and not separated) 23,840 22,925 395 145
Living common law 2,360 2,270 60 15
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 16,195 15,740 195 90
Single (never legally married) 11,370 11,180 100 75
Separated 1,065 1,015 25 0
Divorced 2,105 2,030 45 10
Widowed 1,660 1,510 35 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 52,790 50,980 760 345
English only 46,960 46,960 0 0
French only 30 0 30 0
English and French 5,075 3,995 730 345
Neither English nor French 725 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 52,790 50,980 765 345
Single responses 51,740 49,995 730 310
English 38,890 38,885 0 0
French 750 45 700 0
Non-official languages 12,105 11,060 30 310
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 12,015 10,980 30 305
African languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Afrikaans 20 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 10 0 0
Albanian 25 20 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 310 275 5 10
Armenian 85 75 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 35 35 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 20 15 0 0
Bulgarian 65 60 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 685 600 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 835 730 0 10
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 65 65 0 5
Czech 35 35 0 0
Danish 35 30 0 0
Dutch 165 160 0 5
Estonian 35 35 0 0
Finnish 60 55 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 10 0 0
German 545 540 5 0
Greek 390 380 0 5
Gujarati 125 115 0 0
Hakka 10 15 0 0
Hebrew 35 30 0 0
Hindi 55 55 0 5
Hungarian 285 270 0 10
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 1,270 1,240 0 5
Japanese 65 60 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 45 40 0 5
Korean 410 360 0 5
Kurdish 15 15 0 0
Lao 65 60 0 0
Latvian 35 35 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 25 0 0
Macedonian 125 120 0 0
Malay 15 10 0 0
Malayalam 35 30 0 0
Maltese 25 25 0 5
Mandarin 555 445 0 5
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 60 55 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 895 815 0 25
Polish 325 310 0 10
Portuguese 305 285 0 5
Romanian 515 395 10 75
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 5
Russian 1,215 1,070 0 55
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 75 75 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 10 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slovak 50 50 0 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0
Spanish 750 680 5 40
Swahili 15 10 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 305 305 0 0
Taiwanese 15 10 0 0
Tamil 170 155 0 0
Telugu 20 25 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 80 75 0 0
Ukrainian 90 85 0 5
Urdu 150 140 0 0
Vietnamese 110 100 0 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 85 75 0 5
Multiple responses 1,050 980 30 40
English and French 150 115 0 35
English and non-official language 835 840 0 0
French and non-official language 40 10 30 0
English, French and non-official language 30 20 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 52,790 50,975 765 345
Single responses 51,025 49,295 730 300
English 45,220 44,775 440 0
French 285 25 265 0
Non-official languages 5,520 4,500 20 300
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 5,485 4,470 20 295
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 150 115 5 15
Armenian 45 30 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 35 35 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 485 400 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 535 425 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 15 10 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 45 40 0 5
Greek 75 70 0 5
Gujarati 35 25 0 5
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 0
Hungarian 115 100 0 10
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 140 115 0 5
Japanese 45 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 20 0 0
Korean 280 235 0 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 35 25 0 5
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0
Macedonian 30 25 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 420 320 0 5
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 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 550 470 0 20
Polish 100 85 0 10
Portuguese 85 60 0 10
Romanian 310 200 0 70
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 840 695 0 55
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 35 30 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 410 345 5 40
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 80 75 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 115 90 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 30 0 5
Ukrainian 20 15 0 0
Urdu 60 50 0 0
Vietnamese 35 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 35 25 0 5
Multiple responses 1,765 1,680 35 45
English and French 75 15 30 35
English and non-official language 1,650 1,650 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 30 15 0 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 52,790 50,980 760 345
None 44,880 43,765 350 130
Single responses 7,730 7,080 405 185
English 2,770 2,385 170 170
French 745 535 205 0
Non-official languages 4,215 4,155 35 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 4,185 4,125 30 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 120 110 10 0
Armenian 25 30 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 195 195 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 205 205 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 30 35 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 45 45 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 240 235 5 5
Greek 300 295 0 0
Gujarati 50 50 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 45 40 0 0
Hungarian 100 100 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 590 585 0 5
Japanese 20 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 20 0 0
Korean 100 95 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 30 25 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 45 50 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0
Mandarin 115 105 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 55 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 210 210 0 0
Polish 110 110 0 0
Portuguese 115 115 0 0
Romanian 140 135 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 265 260 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 35 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 5 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 270 265 5 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 135 140 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 50 50 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 0
Ukrainian 30 35 0 0
Urdu 85 85 0 0
Vietnamese 50 50 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 35 30 0 0
Multiple responses 175 130 15 30
English and French 30 5 5 25
English and non-official language 55 50 5 5
French and non-official language 80 75 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 52,790 50,980 765 345
English 50,980 50,980 0 0
French 765 0 760 0
English and French 345 0 0 350
Neither English nor French 705 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 935 0 765 170
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.8 0.0 100.0 49.3

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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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