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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 Dorval, 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 17,950 10,140 6,395 1,230
0 to 4 years 810 435 260 40
5 to 9 years 770 435 260 65
10 to 14 years 905 505 310 90
15 to 19 years 1,190 660 405 120
20 to 24 years 1,150 670 370 100
25 to 29 years 1,055 625 340 85
30 to 34 years 1,020 590 325 90
35 to 39 years 1,110 625 340 140
40 to 44 years 1,190 695 400 95
45 to 49 years 1,515 830 580 100
50 to 54 years 1,525 815 620 85
55 to 59 years 1,300 745 495 55
60 to 64 years 1,190 705 430 50
65 to 69 years 935 510 385 35
70 to 74 years 735 400 300 25
75 to 79 years 635 360 240 25
80 to 84 years 495 300 180 10
85 years and over 420 240 160 10
Median ageFootnote 2 44.2 43.7 46.7 35.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 15,470 8,770 5,560 1,035
Married or living with a common-law partner 8,280 4,530 3,090 585
Married (and not separated) 6,585 3,775 2,210 535
Living common law 1,695 755 885 55
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 7,185 4,240 2,465 445
Single (never legally married) 4,700 2,725 1,615 355
Separated 285 175 95 10
Divorced 1,235 780 400 50
Widowed 965 565 355 25
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 17,955 10,140 6,400 1,225
English only 3,680 3,680 0 0
French only 1,505 0 1,505 0
English and French 12,580 6,460 4,885 1,230
Neither English nor French 195 5 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 17,955 10,145 6,395 1,225
Single responses 17,150 9,745 6,175 1,050
English 7,615 7,600 15 0
French 5,490 15 5,475 0
Non-official languages 4,045 2,130 685 1,045
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 40 30 0 15
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 35 20 0 15
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 3,875 2,025 675 1,010
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 345 80 165 90
Armenian 15 5 0 15
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 15 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 20 0 20 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 50 25 5 20
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 290 165 10 85
Creoles 35 10 20 10
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 20 10 5 5
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 40 30 5 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 175 155 10 10
Greek 85 65 5 10
Gujarati 25 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0
Hungarian 70 50 5 15
Ilocano 25 25 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 510 390 25 85
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 70 40 10 15
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 5 5 0
Latvian 10 0 0 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 160 80 10 50
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 10 0 10 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 20 0 10
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 90 35 5 45
Polish 140 80 30 30
Portuguese 85 40 20 25
Romanian 230 40 60 125
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 155 60 25 60
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 5 0
Slovenian 10 5 5 0
Somali 10 0 0 0
Spanish 510 135 160 185
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 200 175 0 20
Taiwanese 25 15 0 5
Tamil 30 20 0 15
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 15 5 5
Ukrainian 55 40 5 10
Urdu 30 30 0 5
Vietnamese 60 20 20 20
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 125 75 10 25
Multiple responses 800 400 220 185
English and French 385 170 75 140
English and non-official language 190 190 0 0
French and non-official language 145 5 140 0
English, French and non-official language 75 30 10 40
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 17,950 10,145 6,400 1,230
Single responses 16,820 9,660 6,045 925
English 9,595 8,845 755 0
French 5,155 155 5,000 0
Non-official languages 2,070 665 290 925
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 15 10 0 5
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 20 10 0 5
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 2,000 635 285 910
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 160 35 40 70
Armenian 15 5 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 5 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 10 0 20
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 220 110 5 75
Creoles 15 5 5 5
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 25 25 0 5
Greek 30 15 0 10
Gujarati 10 5 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 5
Hungarian 15 5 0 10
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 90 10 15 65
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 55 30 0 15
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 5 0
Latvian 5 0 0 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 145 70 5 50
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 80 30 5 45
Polish 50 10 15 25
Portuguese 40 0 5 30
Romanian 180 20 30 120
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 135 40 25 65
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 345 35 105 175
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 105 85 0 15
Taiwanese 15 5 0 5
Tamil 25 10 0 15
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 10 5 5
Ukrainian 15 5 0 5
Urdu 15 10 0 5
Vietnamese 40 10 5 15
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 50 20 10 15
Multiple responses 1,140 480 355 300
English and French 430 90 155 190
English and non-official language 385 375 10 0
French and non-official language 180 5 180 0
English, French and non-official language 140 15 15 115
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 17,950 10,145 6,400 1,230
None 12,710 7,600 4,225 715
Single responses 4,895 2,420 2,105 365
English 1,770 370 1,210 190
French 1,965 1,250 600 120
Non-official languages 1,155 800 300 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 5 5 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 5 5 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 1,125 775 295 50
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 130 30 100 10
Armenian 5 0 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 20 0 20 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 25 0 0
Creoles 30 5 20 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 60 55 5 5
Greek 40 40 5 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 5 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 215 195 15 5
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 5 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 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 15 10 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 5 0
Polish 30 30 5 0
Portuguese 20 15 5 5
Romanian 40 20 20 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 15 10 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 155 85 60 10
Swahili 10 5 5 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 70 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 10 10 5 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 5 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 15 10 5 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 25 15 5 5
Multiple responses 345 125 65 150
English and French 160 10 5 145
English and non-official language 55 0 55 0
French and non-official language 130 115 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 17,950 10,145 6,400 1,225
English 10,145 10,145 0 0
French 6,400 0 6,395 0
English and French 1,230 0 0 1,225
Neither English nor French 180 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 10,755 10,145 0 615
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 59.9 100.0 0.0 50.2

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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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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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Footnote 14

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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