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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 Saint John
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 75,295 71,745 3,165 165
0 to 4 years 3,990 3,875 60 20
5 to 9 years 3,545 3,450 70 15
10 to 14 years 3,915 3,780 85 40
15 to 19 years 4,710 4,585 100 20
20 to 24 years 5,240 5,110 110 10
25 to 29 years 4,970 4,810 155 5
30 to 34 years 4,715 4,520 175 10
35 to 39 years 4,760 4,535 200 15
40 to 44 years 4,855 4,590 230 10
45 to 49 years 6,140 5,855 255 5
50 to 54 years 6,285 5,980 285 0
55 to 59 years 5,510 5,200 295 5
60 to 64 years 4,895 4,565 330 0
65 to 69 years 3,585 3,330 245 0
70 to 74 years 2,640 2,405 215 5
75 to 79 years 2,200 2,045 145 0
80 to 84 years 1,770 1,635 120 5
85 years and over 1,575 1,475 105 0
Median ageFootnote 2 41.8 41.3 53.0 15.7
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 63,845 60,630 2,955 90
Married or living with a common-law partner 33,660 31,700 1,795 40
Married (and not separated) 27,300 25,670 1,480 35
Living common law 6,355 6,030 315 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 30,185 28,935 1,165 50
Single (never legally married) 18,810 18,185 560 40
Separated 2,530 2,405 115 0
Divorced 4,495 4,265 220 0
Widowed 4,360 4,070 270 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 75,295 71,740 3,170 165
English only 65,255 65,255 0 0
French only 90 0 90 0
English and French 9,720 6,475 3,075 170
Neither English nor French 225 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 75,290 71,745 3,170 165
Single responses 74,765 71,315 3,150 80
English 68,540 68,540 5 0
French 3,490 370 3,125 0
Non-official languages 2,735 2,410 20 80
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 2,675 2,360 20 80
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 5 0
Arabic 365 335 5 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Bengali 30 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 390 325 5 5
Creoles 15 15 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 70 70 0 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 95 95 0 0
Greek 55 55 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 90 75 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 50 45 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 250 220 0 15
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 5 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 105 90 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 55 35 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 5
Pashto 0 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 95 0 0
Polish 35 35 0 0
Portuguese 60 50 0 5
Romanian 45 35 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 50 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 230 185 0 20
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 110 110 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 5
Urdu 75 70 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 55 45 0 5
Multiple responses 525 420 15 90
English and French 320 230 5 85
English and non-official language 185 185 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 75,290 71,740 3,170 165
Single responses 74,660 71,325 3,055 70
English 71,770 69,875 1,890 0
French 1,205 50 1,155 0
Non-official languages 1,690 1,400 5 65
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 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 1,640 1,360 5 65
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 270 245 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 15 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 305 235 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 15 15 0 0
Greek 15 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 60 45 0 5
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 10 10 0 5
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 220 190 0 15
Kurdish 5 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 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 100 80 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 50 30 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 80 75 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 0
Portuguese 30 25 0 5
Romanian 15 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 20 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 115 80 0 15
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 70 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 45 40 0 0
Vietnamese 40 35 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 45 35 0 0
Multiple responses 630 415 115 100
English and French 245 60 100 85
English and non-official language 360 355 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 5 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 75,290 71,740 3,170 170
None 71,530 69,450 1,760 125
Single responses 3,705 2,260 1,395 35
English 1,345 700 605 25
French 1,610 835 770 5
Non-official languages 755 725 20 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 740 710 20 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 5 0
Arabic 60 55 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 65 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 20 20 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 40 40 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 15 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 25 20 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 25 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 20 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 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 5 5 0 0
Spanish 115 100 5 5
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 20 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 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 10 5 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 15 15 0 0
Multiple responses 55 35 10 5
English and French 10 0 0 5
English and non-official language 10 0 5 0
French and non-official language 40 30 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 75,295 71,745 3,165 170
English 71,740 71,745 0 0
French 3,165 0 3,170 0
English and French 170 0 0 170
Neither English nor French 220 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 3,250 0 3,165 85
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 4.3 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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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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