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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 West Vancouver, DM
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 42,130 40,035 560 440
0 to 4 years 1,290 1,155 5 10
5 to 9 years 2,030 1,935 30 25
10 to 14 years 2,570 2,475 25 50
15 to 19 years 3,045 2,940 30 55
20 to 24 years 2,375 2,325 20 30
25 to 29 years 1,300 1,270 10 15
30 to 34 years 1,095 1,040 20 25
35 to 39 years 1,600 1,490 30 30
40 to 44 years 2,745 2,540 45 20
45 to 49 years 3,330 3,065 55 35
50 to 54 years 3,570 3,410 45 25
55 to 59 years 3,490 3,315 55 25
60 to 64 years 3,345 3,215 50 30
65 to 69 years 2,895 2,780 40 25
70 to 74 years 2,280 2,185 40 15
75 to 79 years 1,890 1,805 30 15
80 to 84 years 1,675 1,580 20 15
85 years and over 1,595 1,515 30 5
Median ageFootnote 2 49.5 49.7 52.6 38.1
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 36,240 34,475 495 355
Married or living with a common-law partner 22,255 21,000 330 200
Married (and not separated) 20,675 19,475 290 195
Living common law 1,580 1,520 45 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 13,990 13,480 165 155
Single (never legally married) 8,455 8,200 85 125
Separated 745 710 10 5
Divorced 2,295 2,230 30 15
Widowed 2,495 2,335 45 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 42,130 40,040 560 440
English only 35,925 35,920 0 0
French only 30 0 35 0
English and French 5,070 4,095 530 445
Neither English nor French 1,105 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 42,130 40,040 565 440
Single responses 41,530 39,480 535 430
English 28,280 28,275 5 0
French 545 45 495 0
Non-official languages 12,710 11,160 35 425
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 6 12,605 11,070 35 420
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 50 45 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 150 130 5 5
Armenian 80 70 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 20 25 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 640 570 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,395 1,105 0 20
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 70 60 0 5
Czech 135 130 0 5
Danish 115 110 5 5
Dutch 225 215 0 10
Estonian 35 30 0 0
Finnish 55 55 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0
German 960 920 0 35
Greek 65 65 0 0
Gujarati 110 105 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 20 0 0
Hindi 45 40 0 0
Hungarian 100 90 0 5
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 250 225 0 15
Japanese 245 235 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 880 740 0 25
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 35 30 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 1,320 965 0 20
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 45 45 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 95 90 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 3,315 2,955 5 150
Polish 255 245 0 5
Portuguese 60 50 5 5
Romanian 65 50 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 205 170 5 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 45 45 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 60 60 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 60 55 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 415 370 0 35
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 65 65 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 330 330 0 0
Taiwanese 90 70 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 110 95 5 5
Ukrainian 90 90 0 0
Urdu 60 60 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0
Yiddish 5 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 100 90 0 5
Multiple responses 600 555 25 15
English and French 65 45 5 10
English and non-official language 480 480 0 0
French and non-official language 30 10 20 0
English, French and non-official language 30 20 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 42,130 40,040 560 445
Single responses 40,680 38,650 535 405
English 33,275 32,975 305 0
French 220 15 210 0
Non-official languages 7,175 5,660 20 405
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 7,160 5,645 25 410
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 20 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 35 25 0 5
Armenian 40 25 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 370 305 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 910 645 0 15
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 20 10 0 0
Czech 40 30 0 5
Danish 25 15 0 5
Dutch 30 20 0 10
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 175 135 5 35
Greek 10 10 0 5
Gujarati 35 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 5
Hungarian 25 20 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 45 25 0 15
Japanese 130 115 0 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 695 555 0 20
Kurdish 10 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,150 775 0 20
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 2,520 2,155 10 150
Polish 80 70 0 5
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 30 20 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 125 90 0 15
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 30 25 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 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. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 20 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 235 200 0 30
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 50 35 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 40 35 5 10
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 15 15 0 0
Multiple responses 1,450 1,390 25 35
English and French 50 15 20 20
English and non-official language 1,365 1,365 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 30 10 5 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 42,130 40,040 560 445
None 35,255 33,810 300 160
Single responses 6,715 6,110 250 260
English 2,925 2,520 100 240
French 420 290 125 5
Non-official languages 3,370 3,300 30 10
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 3,345 3,275 25 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 65 60 0 5
Armenian 25 20 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 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 185 180 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 240 240 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 20 0 0
Czech 50 50 0 0
Danish 40 40 0 0
Dutch 85 85 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 345 340 0 0
Greek 35 35 0 0
Gujarati 100 95 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 25 0 0
Hindi 35 30 0 5
Hungarian 25 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 120 120 0 5
Japanese 145 140 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 140 140 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 190 190 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 50 45 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 490 485 5 0
Polish 90 90 0 0
Portuguese 20 20 5 0
Romanian 25 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 50 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 30 30 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 225 215 5 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 45 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 165 170 0 0
Taiwanese 55 50 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0
Urdu 45 45 0 0
Vietnamese 15 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 25 20 0 0
Multiple responses 155 120 10 25
English and French 25 0 0 25
English and non-official language 55 45 5 0
French and non-official language 75 70 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 42,130 40,040 565 440
English 40,035 40,040 0 0
French 565 0 560 0
English and French 445 0 0 445
Neither English nor French 1,090 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 780 0 560 225
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.9 0.0 99.1 51.1

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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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Footnote 6

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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