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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 Division No. 7
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 63,415 61,195 825 135
0 to 4 years 4,305 3,955 25 5
5 to 9 years 4,015 3,845 45 15
10 to 14 years 3,770 3,675 25 15
15 to 19 years 4,105 4,045 20 10
20 to 24 years 5,110 5,020 50 5
25 to 29 years 4,885 4,695 75 10
30 to 34 years 4,575 4,320 60 40
35 to 39 years 4,300 3,995 65 15
40 to 44 years 3,770 3,585 45 5
45 to 49 years 4,365 4,245 60 5
50 to 54 years 4,420 4,325 70 5
55 to 59 years 3,815 3,750 55 0
60 to 64 years 3,375 3,310 65 0
65 to 69 years 2,465 2,410 45 0
70 to 74 years 1,965 1,920 40 0
75 to 79 years 1,570 1,530 35 0
80 to 84 years 1,345 1,320 25 0
85 years and over 1,265 1,250 15 0
Median ageFootnote 2 36.1 36.3 45.1 30.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 51,325 49,715 725 100
Married or living with a common-law partner 30,650 29,430 505 75
Married (and not separated) 25,690 24,625 435 70
Living common law 4,955 4,805 75 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 20,675 20,285 220 25
Single (never legally married) 13,585 13,360 120 25
Separated 1,255 1,205 15 0
Divorced 2,940 2,885 35 0
Widowed 2,895 2,830 40 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 63,415 61,190 825 135
English only 58,810 58,810 0 0
French only 50 0 50 0
English and French 3,195 2,285 775 130
Neither English nor French 1,355 95 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 63,415 61,195 825 130
Single responses 62,790 60,610 805 110
English 53,390 53,390 0 0
French 940 180 765 0
Non-official languages 8,455 7,045 35 110
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 220 220 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 85 85 0 0
Dene 10 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 105 105 0 0
Oji-Cree 15 15 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 8,125 6,720 35 110
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Afrikaans 85 80 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 150 135 0 5
Arabic 90 75 0 10
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 985 565 0 0
Creoles 135 40 30 60
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 125 125 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 30 30 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 2,100 1,965 0 5
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 95 85 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 0
Hungarian 20 25 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 30 30 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 140 125 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 10 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 200 135 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 75 75 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 5
Polish 125 125 0 0
Portuguese 40 35 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 170 140 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 1,975 1,475 5 10
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 215 215 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0
Telugu 15 5 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 10 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 785 745 0 0
Urdu 45 45 0 5
Vietnamese 35 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 115 110 0 5
Multiple responses 625 585 20 20
English and French 100 75 5 15
English and non-official language 465 460 0 0
French and non-official language 40 30 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 15 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 63,415 61,195 825 135
Single responses 62,450 60,295 780 105
English 56,820 56,285 535 0
French 280 45 235 0
Non-official languages 5,345 3,960 15 105
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 40 40 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 20 20 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 5,265 3,885 15 105
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 50 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 105 90 0 5
Arabic 40 25 0 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 55 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 975 555 0 0
Creoles 80 5 15 55
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,135 995 0 5
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 75 60 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 20 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 5 0 0
Japanese 0 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 120 100 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 185 120 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 5
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 95 75 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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 0 0 0 0
Spanish 1,750 1,250 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 85 80 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 240 200 0 0
Urdu 20 25 0 0
Vietnamese 20 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 35 35 0 5
Multiple responses 970 900 40 25
English and French 55 20 20 25
English and non-official language 865 865 0 0
French and non-official language 25 10 20 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 5 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 63,415 61,195 825 135
None 58,865 57,155 525 75
Single responses 4,460 3,975 290 45
English 2,075 1,815 105 30
French 545 370 170 5
Non-official languages 1,840 1,790 15 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 185 185 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 85 85 5 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 75 75 0 0
Oji-Cree 15 20 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,585 1,540 15 10
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 35 25 0 0
Arabic 35 35 0 0
Armenian 0 0 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 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 55 0 0
Creoles 40 20 5 5
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 30 30 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 10 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 505 505 5 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 25 15 0 10
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 10 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 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0
Polish 40 40 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 85 75 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 230 225 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 65 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 160 160 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 70 75 0 0
Multiple responses 90 65 10 15
English and French 15 0 5 15
English and non-official language 15 10 5 0
French and non-official language 55 50 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 63,415 61,195 825 135
English 61,195 61,190 0 0
French 825 0 825 0
English and French 135 0 0 135
Neither English nor French 1,265 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 890 0 825 70
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.4 0.0 100.0 51.9

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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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Footnote 7

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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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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