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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 Abbotsford, CYFootnote 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 131,820 122,945 985 360
0 to 4 years 8,530 7,430 10 10
5 to 9 years 8,240 8,030 20 20
10 to 14 years 8,555 8,380 30 95
15 to 19 years 9,455 9,285 30 95
20 to 24 years 9,110 8,895 30 20
25 to 29 years 9,190 8,700 45 15
30 to 34 years 8,610 8,130 40 15
35 to 39 years 8,340 7,900 45 15
40 to 44 years 8,945 8,560 80 10
45 to 49 years 9,280 8,860 100 15
50 to 54 years 9,195 8,640 105 10
55 to 59 years 8,125 7,315 105 15
60 to 64 years 7,430 6,420 100 5
65 to 69 years 5,660 4,815 80 5
70 to 74 years 4,380 3,750 60 5
75 to 79 years 3,560 3,115 45 0
80 to 84 years 2,790 2,505 40 5
85 years and over 2,435 2,220 20 5
Median ageFootnote 3 37.6 36.7 52.9 17.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 106,495 99,110 925 235
Married or living with a common-law partner 65,405 59,845 595 90
Married (and not separated) 59,460 54,050 500 85
Living common law 5,940 5,795 90 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 41,095 39,265 335 145
Single (never legally married) 26,675 26,155 150 135
Separated 2,840 2,660 35 0
Divorced 5,965 5,745 75 5
Widowed 5,615 4,705 70 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 131,820 122,945 985 360
English only 118,290 118,290 0 0
French only 45 0 40 0
English and French 5,860 4,560 945 360
Neither English nor French 7,630 95 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 131,820 122,945 985 355
Single responses 129,430 120,625 960 320
English 86,665 86,665 0 0
French 1,095 170 930 0
Non-official languages 41,670 33,795 25 320
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 41,470 33,600 25 320
African languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Afrikaans 135 125 0 5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 70 60 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 300 285 5 5
Armenian 20 15 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 35 25 5 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 40 45 0 0
Bosnian 45 45 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 275 220 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 595 495 0 5
Creoles 35 30 5 10
Croatian 50 45 0 0
Czech 70 75 0 0
Danish 150 155 0 0
Dutch 1,475 1,470 0 5
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 100 100 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 5
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 5,695 5,615 5 15
Greek 70 65 0 0
Gujarati 30 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 425 405 0 10
Hungarian 255 245 0 5
Ilocano 40 35 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 195 195 0 5
Japanese 185 165 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 20 0 0
Korean 1,310 1,120 5 15
Kurdish 10 5 0 0
Lao 230 210 0 5
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0
Malayalam 45 45 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 375 320 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 55 55 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 24,660 17,755 5 150
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 180 165 0 10
Polish 355 335 0 5
Portuguese 170 155 0 0
Romanian 235 200 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 320 300 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 40 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0
Sindhi 15 15 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 45 45 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 985 905 0 30
Swahili 30 35 0 0
Swedish 55 50 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 585 575 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 25 20 0 0
Thai 40 40 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 10 0 0
Turkish 30 30 0 0
Ukrainian 255 245 0 0
Urdu 165 150 0 0
Vietnamese 615 520 5 5
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 190 180 0 0
Multiple responses 2,395 2,325 35 40
English and French 185 160 5 20
English and non-official language 2,090 2,085 0 0
French and non-official language 75 50 25 0
English, French and non-official language 40 25 0 15
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 131,820 122,950 985 355
Single responses 126,375 117,625 915 310
English 99,810 99,090 720 0
French 205 25 175 0
Non-official languages 26,365 18,505 25 310
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 0 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 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 11 26,335 18,480 20 310
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Afrikaans 85 80 0 10
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 40 35 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 150 125 5 5
Armenian 15 10 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 25 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 170 110 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 395 285 0 5
Creoles 10 5 5 5
Croatian 5 10 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 5
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 130 125 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 980 910 0 15
Greek 20 15 0 5
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 215 190 0 5
Hungarian 65 65 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 25 25 0 0
Japanese 80 65 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0
Korean 1,115 925 0 10
Kurdish 20 15 0 0
Lao 115 90 5 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 280 225 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20,205 13,310 5 145
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 110 90 0 5
Polish 105 95 0 5
Portuguese 45 30 0 5
Romanian 145 105 0 25
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 150 125 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. 30 20 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 500 420 0 35
Swahili 10 5 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 210 205 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0
Ukrainian 35 25 0 0
Urdu 90 80 0 0
Vietnamese 455 355 5 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 5,440 5,320 70 50
English and French 110 35 55 20
English and non-official language 5,250 5,245 5 0
French and non-official language 30 20 10 0
English, French and non-official language 55 25 0 30
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 131,820 122,945 990 360
None 115,100 107,060 610 165
Single responses 16,485 15,675 365 175
English 7,815 7,320 95 165
French 750 500 250 0
Non-official languages 7,920 7,860 15 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 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 15 7,795 7,735 15 5
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 55 55 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 80 75 0 0
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 60 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 130 130 0 0
Creoles 15 15 5 0
Croatian 20 25 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 40 45 0 0
Dutch 455 455 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 25 30 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 1,420 1,415 0 0
Greek 50 50 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 280 260 0 0
Hungarian 70 70 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 70 70 0 0
Japanese 110 110 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 120 115 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 75 70 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 75 75 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 2,820 2,815 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 45 40 0 0
Polish 105 105 0 0
Portuguese 90 90 0 0
Romanian 60 55 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 115 115 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 505 500 0 0
Swahili 40 35 5 0
Swedish 10 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 225 225 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 10 0 0
Ukrainian 55 50 0 5
Urdu 45 45 0 0
Vietnamese 145 145 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 120 115 0 0
Multiple responses 235 205 10 20
English and French 20 5 0 15
English and non-official language 95 85 0 5
French and non-official language 120 115 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 131,820 122,950 990 360
English 122,950 122,950 0 0
French 985 0 990 0
English and French 360 0 0 360
Neither English nor French 7,525 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,165 0 990 180
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 0.9 0.0 100.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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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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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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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 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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