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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 Whitby, 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 121,030 117,845 2,070 430
0 to 4 years 7,770 7,555 60 25
5 to 9 years 8,610 8,460 95 45
10 to 14 years 8,965 8,785 120 55
15 to 19 years 9,670 9,495 125 45
20 to 24 years 7,500 7,400 75 25
25 to 29 years 6,270 6,165 75 20
30 to 34 years 7,355 7,185 125 30
35 to 39 years 9,220 8,980 195 35
40 to 44 years 10,050 9,785 200 45
45 to 49 years 11,085 10,785 255 15
50 to 54 years 9,400 9,115 220 25
55 to 59 years 7,230 7,020 155 15
60 to 64 years 5,945 5,735 140 10
65 to 69 years 3,920 3,740 90 5
70 to 74 years 2,795 2,655 60 5
75 to 79 years 2,260 2,155 35 5
80 to 84 years 1,675 1,590 30 5
85 years and over 1,300 1,240 15 0
Median ageFootnote 2 37.4 37.2 44.1 27.4
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 95,690 93,050 1,800 300
Married or living with a common-law partner 58,805 57,045 1,270 175
Married (and not separated) 52,260 50,685 1,100 165
Living common law 6,545 6,360 165 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 36,880 36,000 530 120
Single (never legally married) 25,455 25,000 320 110
Separated 2,860 2,800 50 0
Divorced 4,615 4,495 90 5
Widowed 3,950 3,705 70 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 121,025 117,845 2,070 430
English only 110,970 110,970 0 0
French only 65 0 60 0
English and French 9,280 6,850 2,005 425
Neither English nor French 710 25 0 5
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 121,030 117,845 2,070 425
Single responses 119,250 116,250 2,000 320
English 101,320 101,315 5 0
French 2,055 110 1,945 0
Non-official languages 15,885 14,830 55 320
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 15,715 14,665 55 310
African languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 40 40 0 0
Albanian 30 25 0 0
Amharic 20 20 0 5
Arabic 640 560 5 50
Armenian 65 55 5 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 5
Bengali 125 120 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 30 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 435 380 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 575 510 0 5
Creoles 55 30 15 5
Croatian 135 135 0 0
Czech 90 90 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0
Dutch 545 540 0 5
Estonian 55 50 0 0
Finnish 45 45 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 745 740 0 0
Greek 560 540 0 0
Gujarati 305 280 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 235 230 0 0
Hungarian 295 285 0 0
Ilocano 25 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Italian 1,630 1,550 5 10
Japanese 50 45 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0
Korean 195 170 0 0
Kurdish 20 15 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 30 30 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 30 30 0 0
Macedonian 355 350 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0
Malayalam 45 40 0 5
Maltese 105 105 0 0
Mandarin 415 360 0 5
Marathi 40 40 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 50 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 15 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 290 275 0 5
Pashto 35 40 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 680 580 0 30
Polish 840 815 0 15
Portuguese 645 605 5 10
Romanian 330 270 0 45
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 5 5
Russian 215 190 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Serbian 145 125 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 25 30 0 0
Shanghainese 5 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Sindhi 40 40 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 75 80 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Slovak 70 65 0 5
Slovenian 85 80 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 1,040 955 5 30
Swahili 30 30 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 845 840 0 0
Taiwanese 5 10 0 0
Tamil 455 430 0 5
Telugu 40 40 0 0
Thai 30 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 15 0 0
Turkish 60 50 0 0
Ukrainian 270 260 0 5
Urdu 895 840 0 15
Vietnamese 150 135 0 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 165 155 0 10
Multiple responses 1,775 1,595 70 110
English and French 315 220 15 80
English and non-official language 1,305 1,305 0 0
French and non-official language 95 45 50 0
English, French and non-official language 60 35 0 30
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 121,030 117,845 2,070 430
Single responses 118,170 115,260 1,950 280
English 111,240 110,120 1,125 0
French 850 45 805 0
Non-official languages 6,085 5,095 15 280
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 6,030 5,055 15 275
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 235 185 0 30
Armenian 30 20 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 60 60 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 255 190 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 350 290 0 5
Creoles 25 15 0 10
Croatian 40 35 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 35 30 0 0
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 60 55 0 0
Greek 130 115 0 0
Gujarati 150 130 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 75 70 0 0
Hungarian 90 80 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 380 305 0 10
Japanese 20 20 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 125 100 0 5
Kurdish 15 15 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 125 115 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 5
Maltese 25 20 0 5
Mandarin 310 255 0 5
Marathi 10 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 135 110 0 5
Pashto 25 20 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 440 340 0 25
Polish 280 260 0 10
Portuguese 185 150 0 5
Romanian 145 80 0 45
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 105 85 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Serbian 75 60 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 25 20 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0 5
Slovenian 10 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 460 375 5 35
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 265 250 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 305 280 0 10
Telugu 25 20 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 20 0 5
Ukrainian 65 55 0 5
Urdu 530 480 0 15
Vietnamese 105 85 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 50 45 0 5
Multiple responses 2,855 2,585 120 145
English and French 245 60 100 90
English and non-official language 2,515 2,505 5 0
French and non-official language 20 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 80 15 5 60
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 121,030 117,845 2,070 430
None 109,610 107,720 1,035 220
Single responses 11,180 9,950 1,015 170
English 3,270 2,695 405 150
French 1,585 1,035 545 5
Non-official languages 6,320 6,220 65 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 6,225 6,125 60 20
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 30 30 0 0
Albanian 25 25 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 265 265 5 5
Armenian 40 40 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 40 40 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 150 150 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 155 150 5 0
Creoles 70 55 15 0
Croatian 60 55 0 0
Czech 40 40 0 0
Danish 15 10 0 0
Dutch 190 185 0 0
Estonian 25 25 0 0
Finnish 10 15 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 255 255 5 0
Greek 370 370 0 0
Gujarati 100 95 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 5 0
Hindi 190 190 0 0
Hungarian 100 105 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 715 700 5 5
Japanese 40 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 60 60 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0
Lingala 10 0 10 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 140 140 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 20 25 0 0
Maltese 60 60 0 0
Mandarin 110 110 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 125 125 0 0
Pashto 20 15 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 125 130 0 0
Polish 260 260 0 0
Portuguese 290 285 0 0
Romanian 120 120 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 10 0
Russian 75 75 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 40 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 25 25 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 530 520 5 0
Swahili 35 30 10 0
Swedish 20 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 360 360 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 145 140 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 0
Ukrainian 80 75 0 0
Urdu 265 265 0 5
Vietnamese 25 30 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 90 90 5 0
Multiple responses 240 175 20 45
English and French 45 10 0 30
English and non-official language 60 40 10 0
French and non-official language 135 125 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 121,030 117,845 2,070 430
English 117,845 117,845 0 0
French 2,070 0 2,070 0
English and French 425 0 0 430
Neither English nor French 685 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,285 0 2,070 215
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.9 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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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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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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