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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 Windsor, CY
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 208,825 197,690 5,180 1,900
0 to 4 years 11,850 11,085 95 90
5 to 9 years 11,975 11,505 140 265
10 to 14 years 12,430 11,995 135 245
15 to 19 years 13,820 13,380 180 210
20 to 24 years 14,600 14,235 180 135
25 to 29 years 13,300 12,940 205 100
30 to 34 years 13,005 12,580 235 115
35 to 39 years 13,830 13,320 275 115
40 to 44 years 14,735 14,140 295 160
45 to 49 years 16,065 15,290 445 130
50 to 54 years 15,515 14,720 480 100
55 to 59 years 13,545 12,765 440 75
60 to 64 years 12,310 11,510 460 50
65 to 69 years 9,170 8,370 420 30
70 to 74 years 7,600 6,750 340 30
75 to 79 years 6,190 5,430 300 25
80 to 84 years 4,870 4,220 305 20
85 years and over 4,000 3,460 235 10
Median ageFootnote 2 39.9 39.2 54.1 25.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 172,570 163,105 4,805 1,300
Married or living with a common-law partner 90,165 84,755 2,690 675
Married (and not separated) 78,200 73,220 2,325 650
Living common law 11,965 11,540 365 20
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 82,405 78,350 2,110 630
Single (never legally married) 52,000 50,380 910 485
Separated 6,135 5,790 195 45
Divorced 13,100 12,475 440 65
Widowed 11,160 9,705 565 35
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 208,825 197,690 5,180 1,900
English only 186,940 186,940 0 0
French only 310 0 310 0
English and French 17,435 10,685 4,855 1,900
Neither English nor French 4,140 65 15 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 208,825 197,690 5,175 1,900
Single responses 203,525 192,845 4,955 1,665
English 142,800 142,790 5 0
French 5,405 730 4,675 0
Non-official languages 55,320 49,320 275 1,665
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 5 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 55,005 49,055 265 1,655
African languages, n.i.e. 195 180 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 50 50 0 0
Albanian 1,025 910 0 35
Amharic 120 120 0 0
Arabic 9,550 8,135 75 585
Armenian 135 110 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 55 35 5 10
Bengali 615 560 0 25
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 50 45 0 0
Bosnian 305 290 0 5
Bulgarian 85 85 0 5
Burmese 15 15 0 0
Cantonese 1,020 820 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 3,040 2,540 0 40
Creoles 170 75 25 55
Croatian 1,265 1,220 0 10
Czech 115 110 0 0
Danish 45 45 0 0
Dutch 265 260 0 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 95 90 0 0
Flemish 25 20 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 1,290 1,270 0 20
Greek 825 790 5 5
Gujarati 505 460 0 5
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 25 0 0
Hindi 460 445 0 5
Hungarian 975 915 5 15
Ilocano 50 45 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 55 50 0 0
Italian 6,395 5,885 5 70
Japanese 45 45 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 400 335 0 0
Korean 240 220 0 5
Kurdish 125 105 5 0
Lao 130 115 0 5
Latvian 10 15 0 0
Lingala 15 5 5 5
Lithuanian 50 50 0 0
Macedonian 760 710 0 10
Malay 40 40 0 0
Malayalam 120 110 0 0
Maltese 140 140 0 0
Mandarin 1,010 855 0 30
Marathi 65 65 0 0
Nepali 90 60 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 165 160 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 45 45 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,630 1,420 0 35
Pashto 35 30 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 530 490 0 15
Polish 2,500 2,335 5 50
Portuguese 480 440 0 5
Romanian 1,870 1,555 5 225
Rundi (Kirundi) 40 15 15 10
Russian 420 375 0 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 80 30 30 15
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 1,910 1,610 5 30
Serbian 2,480 2,315 0 50
Serbo-Croatian 190 190 0 5
Shanghainese 10 10 5 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0
Sindhi 15 10 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 115 110 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 155 90 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 115 105 0 0
Slovak 485 470 0 5
Slovenian 135 135 0 5
Somali 575 465 0 5
Spanish 2,585 2,280 15 115
Swahili 130 55 30 25
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,360 1,345 0 0
Taiwanese 20 20 0 0
Tamil 230 220 0 5
Telugu 110 105 0 0
Thai 30 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 120 115 0 0
Turkish 340 320 0 5
Ukrainian 460 450 0 0
Urdu 1,755 1,655 0 30
Vietnamese 1,725 1,510 5 30
Yiddish 25 25 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 295 250 10 10
Multiple responses 5,300 4,845 220 235
English and French 870 690 30 150
English and non-official language 3,940 3,935 5 0
French and non-official language 310 130 180 0
English, French and non-official language 190 90 5 85
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 208,825 197,690 5,175 1,900
Single responses 198,760 188,300 4,835 1,560
English 166,280 163,150 3,130 0
French 1,645 125 1,520 0
Non-official languages 30,835 25,030 185 1,560
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 5 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 30,725 24,955 185 1,550
African languages, n.i.e. 105 95 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0
Albanian 555 440 0 40
Amharic 65 65 0 0
Arabic 6,030 4,620 90 540
Armenian 70 45 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5
Bengali 420 360 0 25
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 165 155 0 5
Bulgarian 50 45 0 5
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 795 595 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,195 1,715 5 35
Creoles 90 20 10 45
Croatian 535 490 0 10
Czech 30 25 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 30 25 0 0
Flemish 5 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 185 165 0 15
Greek 360 325 0 5
Gujarati 325 280 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 255 240 0 5
Hungarian 370 315 0 15
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 2,600 2,095 10 65
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 255 185 0 0
Korean 175 150 0 5
Kurdish 90 65 0 0
Lao 80 60 0 5
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 390 340 0 10
Malay 15 20 0 0
Malayalam 70 65 0 0
Maltese 30 30 0 5
Mandarin 840 675 5 25
Marathi 35 35 0 0
Nepali 85 55 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 45 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 35 30 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,140 940 0 30
Pashto 20 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 340 300 0 15
Polish 1,255 1,095 0 45
Portuguese 150 110 5 10
Romanian 1,135 825 5 220
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 15 5 5
Russian 255 205 0 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 20 0 5 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 1,310 1,035 0 25
Serbian 1,475 1,310 0 50
Serbo-Croatian 115 105 0 0
Shanghainese 15 5 5 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 50 30 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 60 55 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 145 75 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Slovak 125 115 0 5
Slovenian 35 35 0 0
Somali 390 290 0 5
Spanish 1,435 1,145 5 110
Swahili 95 25 20 35
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 620 605 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 125 115 0 5
Telugu 45 40 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 75 70 0 0
Turkish 185 165 0 0
Ukrainian 90 80 0 0
Urdu 1,130 1,025 0 30
Vietnamese 1,315 1,100 10 30
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 105 75 0 10
Multiple responses 10,065 9,385 345 340
English and French 455 100 190 155
English and non-official language 9,220 9,175 45 0
French and non-official language 105 35 70 0
English, French and non-official language 295 75 35 185
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 208,825 197,690 5,175 1,900
None 174,270 166,560 3,075 920
Single responses 33,685 30,480 2,020 845
English 13,430 11,795 725 735
French 3,045 1,935 1,060 45
Non-official languages 17,210 16,750 225 60
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 10 10 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 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 17,005 16,555 220 60
African languages, n.i.e. 55 55 5 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 40 45 0 0
Albanian 310 315 0 0
Amharic 40 40 0 0
Arabic 3,435 3,290 70 5
Armenian 40 45 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 40 25 5 5
Bengali 120 115 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 90 95 0 0
Bulgarian 30 30 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 255 245 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 565 555 0 0
Creoles 90 65 20 5
Croatian 485 480 0 0
Czech 30 35 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 75 70 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 20 20 5 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 465 455 0 0
Greek 360 355 0 0
Gujarati 100 95 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 20 0 0
Hindi 295 285 0 0
Hungarian 290 295 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 2,315 2,295 15 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 105 105 0 0
Korean 40 40 0 0
Kurdish 15 20 0 0
Lao 30 30 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 20 10 10 5
Lithuanian 20 15 0 0
Macedonian 250 250 0 5
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 30 35 0 0
Maltese 45 45 0 0
Mandarin 155 150 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 140 140 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 290 285 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 105 0 0
Polish 730 725 0 0
Portuguese 240 235 0 0
Romanian 490 475 5 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 5 0
Russian 115 115 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 35 15 20 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 390 360 0 0
Serbian 695 690 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 55 55 0 0
Shanghainese 10 0 5 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 45 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Slovak 135 135 0 0
Slovenian 45 45 0 0
Somali 145 140 0 0
Spanish 1,045 1,015 20 10
Swahili 65 35 25 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 515 515 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 75 70 0 0
Telugu 45 50 0 0
Thai 20 15 5 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 40 35 0 0
Turkish 115 115 0 0
Ukrainian 145 140 0 0
Urdu 430 425 0 0
Vietnamese 310 300 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 195 185 5 5
Multiple responses 875 650 85 130
English and French 170 30 15 120
English and non-official language 230 190 30 10
French and non-official language 470 430 40 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 208,825 197,690 5,175 1,900
English 197,690 197,690 0 0
French 5,180 0 5,175 0
English and French 1,900 0 0 1,900
Neither English nor French 4,060 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 6,125 0 5,180 950
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.9 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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Footnote 11

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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