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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 La Vallée-du-Richelieu
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 115,990 4,695 110,480 695
0 to 4 years 7,880 205 7,595 65
5 to 9 years 7,270 195 7,020 50
10 to 14 years 7,200 245 6,905 50
15 to 19 years 8,305 295 7,950 55
20 to 24 years 5,820 240 5,535 40
25 to 29 years 5,905 210 5,675 25
30 to 34 years 8,260 275 7,920 50
35 to 39 years 8,655 335 8,220 85
40 to 44 years 8,610 370 8,175 55
45 to 49 years 9,860 490 9,315 50
50 to 54 years 9,265 405 8,825 35
55 to 59 years 7,900 350 7,510 35
60 to 64 years 6,900 300 6,575 20
65 to 69 years 5,580 255 5,295 20
70 to 74 years 3,450 165 3,255 25
75 to 79 years 2,280 135 2,120 15
80 to 84 years 1,635 125 1,500 5
85 years and over 1,200 100 1,085 5
Median ageFootnote 2 39.2 44.8 39.0 35.9
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 93,635 4,045 88,955 525
Married or living with a common-law partner 60,050 2,625 57,015 330
Married (and not separated) 33,505 2,005 31,140 280
Living common law 26,545 620 25,875 50
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 33,585 1,420 31,940 195
Single (never legally married) 23,135 865 22,120 135
Separated 1,120 55 1,050 5
Divorced 5,560 255 5,265 35
Widowed 3,775 240 3,500 15
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 115,990 4,695 110,475 695
English only 725 725 0 0
French only 60,230 0 60,235 0
English and French 54,900 3,970 50,235 700
Neither English nor French 130 0 10 5
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 115,990 4,695 110,480 700
Single responses 114,765 4,505 109,720 425
English 4,060 4,005 60 0
French 108,230 10 108,215 0
Non-official languages 2,480 490 1,440 425
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 6 2,435 485 1,405 425
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 210 10 170 25
Armenian 10 0 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 0 10 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 15 25 10
Creoles 75 5 60 10
Croatian 5 5 5 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 50 15 30 10
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 5 0
Flemish 25 0 15 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 165 80 60 20
Greek 80 30 20 25
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 30 10 25 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 270 90 155 20
Japanese 5 5 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 0 25 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 5 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 5
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 10 15 15
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 0 15 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 0 10 10
Polish 65 20 40 5
Portuguese 175 35 105 40
Romanian 105 5 50 45
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 55 10 20 15
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 10 5 10 0
Slovenian 0 0 5 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 640 45 410 120
Swahili 5 0 5 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 10 10 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 0 20 5
Ukrainian 25 15 5 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 60 5 50 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 40 5 30 0
Multiple responses 1,225 190 760 275
English and French 930 135 530 260
English and non-official language 50 50 5 0
French and non-official language 190 0 195 0
English, French and non-official language 55 10 35 15
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 115,990 4,695 110,475 700
Single responses 114,670 4,470 109,740 340
English 4,020 3,425 595 0
French 109,815 975 108,840 0
Non-official languages 835 70 305 340
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 10 825 70 305 335
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 55 5 25 20
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 5 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 10 15 10
Creoles 15 0 5 10
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 0 5 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 10
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 30 10 10 10
Greek 35 5 5 20
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 0 25 10
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 5 5
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 5
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 5 10 20
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 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 0 5 10
Polish 5 5 5 5
Portuguese 40 0 15 20
Romanian 70 0 10 45
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 0 5 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5
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 300 10 120 105
Swahili 0 0 0 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 0 10 0
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 0 10 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,320 225 730 360
English and French 870 175 390 305
English and non-official language 45 45 0 0
French and non-official language 320 5 310 0
English, French and non-official language 85 5 25 55
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 115,990 4,695 110,475 700
None 105,095 2,450 102,075 455
Single responses 10,510 2,135 8,165 210
English 7,345 655 6,655 35
French 2,030 1,295 605 130
Non-official languages 1,135 185 900 45
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 1,100 185 870 45
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 95 0 90 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 0 10 0
Creoles 70 0 65 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 20 5 15 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 5 0
Flemish 5 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 65 35 20 5
Greek 50 35 10 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 15 5 10 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 105 20 70 10
Japanese 5 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 0 5 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 5 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 15 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 10 0 15 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 5 0
Polish 25 5 15 0
Portuguese 70 20 45 5
Romanian 15 0 15 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 15 5 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 0 10 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. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 380 15 355 10
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 0 5 0
Ukrainian 5 0 0 5
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 0 25 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 30 0 35 0
Multiple responses 385 110 235 35
English and French 35 0 5 30
English and non-official language 230 5 220 0
French and non-official language 110 100 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 115,995 4,695 110,475 700
English 4,695 4,695 0 0
French 110,475 0 110,475 0
English and French 700 0 0 700
Neither English nor French 120 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 5,045 4,695 0 350
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 4.3 100.0 0.0 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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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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