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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. 1
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 77,605 76,140 705 55
0 to 4 years 5,055 4,800 20 0
5 to 9 years 4,850 4,765 20 10
10 to 14 years 4,965 4,935 5 10
15 to 19 years 4,960 4,930 15 0
20 to 24 years 4,920 4,860 30 0
25 to 29 years 5,355 5,275 40 0
30 to 34 years 5,285 5,185 35 5
35 to 39 years 4,905 4,805 40 0
40 to 44 years 4,960 4,880 40 5
45 to 49 years 5,725 5,610 65 0
50 to 54 years 6,155 6,060 75 5
55 to 59 years 5,495 5,390 80 5
60 to 64 years 4,285 4,190 70 0
65 to 69 years 3,240 3,155 65 0
70 to 74 years 2,605 2,550 35 5
75 to 79 years 2,135 2,085 35 0
80 to 84 years 1,585 1,550 25 0
85 years and over 1,140 1,125 5 0
Median ageFootnote 2 38.5 38.5 52.6 24.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 62,735 61,645 660 30
Married or living with a common-law partner 38,950 38,190 435 25
Married (and not separated) 33,260 32,590 360 20
Living common law 5,695 5,605 75 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 23,785 23,455 225 10
Single (never legally married) 14,480 14,325 100 5
Separated 1,715 1,690 20 0
Divorced 4,305 4,225 65 0
Widowed 3,280 3,215 40 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 77,605 76,140 705 55
English only 74,315 74,315 0 0
French only 15 0 15 0
English and French 2,555 1,810 685 60
Neither English nor French 720 15 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 77,605 76,140 700 55
Single responses 77,000 75,575 690 35
English 67,780 67,775 5 0
French 865 185 685 0
Non-official languages 8,360 7,615 5 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 8,280 7,535 5 35
African languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 0
Afrikaans 45 45 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 25 20 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 145 120 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0
Bosnian 75 75 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 75 65 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 245 195 0 0
Creoles 20 15 0 0
Croatian 45 45 0 0
Czech 20 25 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 400 400 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 4,725 4,345 5 5
Greek 35 40 0 5
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 5
Hungarian 80 75 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 75 70 0 0
Japanese 45 45 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 0
Korean 50 45 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 35 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 5 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 0
Norwegian 30 25 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 60 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0
Polish 120 120 0 0
Portuguese 40 40 0 0
Romanian 40 35 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 75 70 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 25 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 15 15 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 35 30 0 0
Spanish 605 505 0 15
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 260 265 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 115 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 155 155 0 0
Urdu 55 55 0 0
Vietnamese 65 60 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 60 65 0 0
Multiple responses 600 565 10 20
English and French 105 80 5 20
English and non-official language 455 455 0 0
French and non-official language 40 30 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 77,605 76,140 700 55
Single responses 76,830 75,410 690 35
English 72,545 72,005 540 0
French 190 45 145 0
Non-official languages 4,095 3,355 5 35
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 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 4,085 3,340 5 30
African languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Afrikaans 30 25 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 95 75 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 20 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 160 110 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 60 60 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 2,530 2,150 5 5
Greek 10 10 0 5
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 10 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 10 10 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0
Korean 35 30 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 25 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 50 40 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 20 15 0 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 10 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 40 30 0 0
Spanish 350 255 0 15
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 120 125 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 105 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 10 0 0
Urdu 30 25 0 0
Vietnamese 35 35 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 5 0 0
Multiple responses 770 735 15 25
English and French 45 10 15 20
English and non-official language 715 710 0 0
French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 77,605 76,140 705 55
None 73,135 72,020 425 40
Single responses 4,405 4,055 275 15
English 2,150 1,995 85 15
French 500 315 185 0
Non-official languages 1,760 1,750 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 20 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,705 1,700 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 20 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 50 50 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 50 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 10 15 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 120 120 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 620 620 0 0
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 25 25 0 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 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 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 235 230 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 100 100 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 35 30 0 0
Multiple responses 65 60 5 0
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 25 25 0 0
French and non-official language 40 35 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 77,600 76,140 705 55
English 76,140 76,140 0 0
French 705 0 705 0
English and French 55 0 0 60
Neither English nor French 700 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 730 0 705 25
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 0.9 0.0 100.0 45.5

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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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