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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-Lambert, V
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 20,945 3,605 16,580 670
0 to 4 years 960 125 770 35
5 to 9 years 1,140 140 950 45
10 to 14 years 1,155 150 950 50
15 to 19 years 1,165 150 965 45
20 to 24 years 960 165 760 30
25 to 29 years 720 135 550 30
30 to 34 years 905 155 685 60
35 to 39 years 1,160 180 915 70
40 to 44 years 1,440 220 1,140 80
45 to 49 years 1,670 275 1,345 45
50 to 54 years 1,620 255 1,335 30
55 to 59 years 1,530 265 1,240 30
60 to 64 years 1,445 280 1,130 30
65 to 69 years 1,405 265 1,110 20
70 to 74 years 1,165 255 870 30
75 to 79 years 990 225 745 15
80 to 84 years 805 170 610 15
85 years and over 730 205 515 0
Median ageFootnote 2 47.6 52.4 47.3 37.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 17,695 3,195 13,910 540
Married or living with a common-law partner 9,755 1,725 7,650 345
Married (and not separated) 6,600 1,430 4,820 320
Living common law 3,155 295 2,840 25
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 7,940 1,470 6,260 195
Single (never legally married) 4,480 750 3,595 130
Separated 300 55 230 5
Divorced 1,660 305 1,315 35
Widowed 1,500 360 1,115 20
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 20,945 3,610 16,580 670
English only 1,070 1,070 0 0
French only 4,590 0 4,585 0
English and French 15,200 2,535 11,990 670
Neither English nor French 85 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 20,945 3,610 16,580 670
Single responses 20,430 3,460 16,355 530
English 2,835 2,825 10 0
French 15,640 0 15,635 0
Non-official languages 1,960 635 710 530
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 6 1,940 630 695 525
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 235 55 110 65
Armenian 15 10 5 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 40 5 15 15
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 15 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 35 10 25
Creoles 25 0 25 0
Croatian 15 10 0 5
Czech 25 15 5 5
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 35 25 15 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 100 70 25 10
Greek 30 20 5 5
Gujarati 15 5 5 5
Hakka 5 0 0 5
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 35 15 15 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 145 65 55 20
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 5 5
Korean 30 15 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 5
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 10 5 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 5
Oromo 10 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 115 30 30 40
Polish 40 20 15 10
Portuguese 70 20 30 25
Romanian 130 5 45 80
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 20 15 20
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. 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 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 5
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 420 50 215 120
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 15 15 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 5 0 10
Ukrainian 15 5 0 5
Urdu 15 5 0 5
Vietnamese 50 5 20 15
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 25 5 15 5
Multiple responses 515 145 230 140
English and French 325 85 130 110
English and non-official language 45 50 0 0
French and non-official language 95 5 90 0
English, French and non-official language 45 10 5 30
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 20,945 3,605 16,585 670
Single responses 20,290 3,460 16,265 475
English 3,450 3,065 390 0
French 15,860 230 15,625 0
Non-official languages 985 165 250 475
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 10 980 165 245 475
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 100 25 15 45
Armenian 5 5 5 5
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 25 5 5 15
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 20 10 15
Creoles 15 0 5 5
Croatian 5 0 0 5
Czech 10 5 0 5
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 10 0 0 10
Greek 10 0 0 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 5 0 0
Hungarian 10 0 5 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 0 10 15
Japanese 0 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 10 5 5
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 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 10 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 5
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 80 20 10 40
Polish 10 0 0 5
Portuguese 35 0 10 20
Romanian 110 5 25 80
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 15 10 20
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. 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 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 300 15 130 120
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 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 10 5 5 5
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 10 0 5 5
Vietnamese 25 5 5 15
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 0 5 5
Multiple responses 655 150 315 190
English and French 345 65 145 135
English and non-official language 75 75 5 0
French and non-official language 165 0 165 0
English, French and non-official language 70 0 5 60
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 20,945 3,605 16,580 670
None 16,620 2,350 13,830 360
Single responses 4,080 1,200 2,650 225
English 2,265 235 1,940 85
French 1,185 690 380 110
Non-official languages 630 270 330 25
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 0 0 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 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 14 610 270 310 30
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 90 20 65 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 5 0
Creoles 30 0 30 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 55 35 10 0
Greek 15 10 5 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 55 25 25 5
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 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) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 5 0
Polish 10 5 5 0
Portuguese 25 10 15 0
Romanian 10 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 5 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 150 45 100 5
Swahili 0 0 5 0
Swedish 0 0 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 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 0 5 5
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 20 5 15 0
Multiple responses 245 60 100 80
English and French 85 0 5 80
English and non-official language 90 0 85 0
French and non-official language 70 55 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 20,945 3,605 16,585 670
English 3,605 3,610 0 0
French 16,580 0 16,585 0
English and French 670 0 0 670
Neither English nor French 90 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 3,940 3,605 0 335
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 18.8 100.0 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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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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