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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. 15Footnote 1
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 2 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 81,455 78,755 2,410 80
0 to 4 years 5,825 5,715 45 5
5 to 9 years 5,625 5,555 40 10
10 to 14 years 6,015 5,940 60 10
15 to 19 years 6,200 6,130 55 5
20 to 24 years 4,885 4,835 45 5
25 to 29 years 4,685 4,615 60 5
30 to 34 years 4,635 4,545 70 5
35 to 39 years 4,610 4,510 75 0
40 to 44 years 4,915 4,785 115 5
45 to 49 years 5,835 5,655 170 5
50 to 54 years 6,000 5,745 250 5
55 to 59 years 5,385 5,080 285 5
60 to 64 years 4,735 4,455 275 5
65 to 69 years 3,595 3,380 205 0
70 to 74 years 2,930 2,730 190 0
75 to 79 years 2,355 2,175 175 0
80 to 84 years 1,790 1,620 165 5
85 years and over 1,440 1,295 140 5
Median ageFootnote 3 38.1 37.3 58.9 30.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 63,985 61,550 2,270 55
Married or living with a common-law partner 38,490 36,755 1,630 35
Married (and not separated) 32,955 31,330 1,530 30
Living common law 5,530 5,425 100 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 25,500 24,795 640 20
Single (never legally married) 16,900 16,610 260 15
Separated 1,535 1,490 45 0
Divorced 3,245 3,130 105 5
Widowed 3,820 3,565 235 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 81,455 78,755 2,410 80
English only 76,000 76,000 0 0
French only 50 0 45 0
English and French 5,175 2,740 2,360 75
Neither English nor French 230 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 81,455 78,760 2,410 75
Single responses 80,275 77,650 2,380 35
English 68,540 68,535 5 0
French 2,760 405 2,355 0
Non-official languages 8,975 8,710 20 35
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 2,485 2,465 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 2,175 2,155 0 5
Dene 285 285 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 15 15 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 5 5 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 6,385 6,145 20 30
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Afrikaans 95 100 0 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 35 30 5 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 20 20 0 5
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 120 100 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0
Dutch 125 125 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 2,685 2,615 0 5
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 40 45 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 25 20 0 0
Hungarian 115 110 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 20 15 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 10 0
Norwegian 95 95 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 195 195 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 25 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0
Russian 115 100 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 70 45 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 40 30 0 0
Spanish 195 175 5 5
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 30 30 5 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 425 415 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 1,425 1,415 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 110 95 0 0
Multiple responses 1,180 1,110 35 40
English and French 240 190 15 40
English and non-official language 885 885 0 0
French and non-official language 45 35 15 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 81,455 78,760 2,410 75
Single responses 80,225 77,660 2,335 30
English 76,975 75,300 1,680 0
French 705 65 640 0
Non-official languages 2,550 2,300 10 25
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 595 580 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 540 530 0 5
Dene 50 50 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 11 1,920 1,695 5 25
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 55 60 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 15 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 85 65 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 20 20 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 725 645 0 5
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 20 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 60 50 0 0
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. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 65 35 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 35 25 0 0
Spanish 110 95 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 270 265 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 5 5 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 5
Ukrainian 160 150 0 5
Urdu 25 20 0 0
Vietnamese 45 35 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 35 25 5 0
Multiple responses 1,230 1,100 80 50
English and French 150 30 70 45
English and non-official language 1,060 1,055 5 0
French and non-official language 10 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 5 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 81,455 78,760 2,410 80
None 75,070 73,360 1,465 60
Single responses 6,275 5,295 935 20
English 1,570 1,160 385 15
French 1,175 640 535 0
Non-official languages 3,530 3,495 20 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,625 1,620 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,385 1,380 0 0
Dene 220 215 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 5 5 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,810 1,785 15 5
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 60 60 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 15 15 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 5
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 30 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 35 35 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 630 625 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 10 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 5 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 45 45 0 0
Portuguese 5 0 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 35 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 95 90 5 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 110 110 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 485 480 0 0
Urdu 0 5 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 95 90 0 0
Multiple responses 115 105 10 5
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 20 15 0 0
French and non-official language 90 85 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 81,455 78,760 2,410 80
English 78,760 78,755 0 0
French 2,410 0 2,410 0
English and French 75 0 0 75
Neither English nor French 210 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 2,450 0 2,410 40
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 3.0 0.0 100.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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Footnote 2

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 12

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 13

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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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 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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Footnote 19

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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