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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 Woolwich, TP
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 22,790 22,310 145 25
0 to 4 years 1,690 1,470 10 0
5 to 9 years 1,555 1,510 10 0
10 to 14 years 1,550 1,540 5 0
15 to 19 years 1,505 1,500 0 0
20 to 24 years 1,340 1,340 5 0
25 to 29 years 1,410 1,400 10 5
30 to 34 years 1,440 1,420 15 0
35 to 39 years 1,490 1,465 20 0
40 to 44 years 1,520 1,500 20 5
45 to 49 years 1,670 1,650 10 0
50 to 54 years 1,585 1,565 10 5
55 to 59 years 1,460 1,445 10 0
60 to 64 years 1,325 1,315 5 0
65 to 69 years 1,075 1,055 10 0
70 to 74 years 750 735 5 0
75 to 79 years 610 595 5 0
80 to 84 years 440 430 5 0
85 years and over 385 375 0 5
Median ageFootnote 2 38.0 38.3 41.5 52.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 17,990 17,785 125 20
Married or living with a common-law partner 12,175 12,015 95 15
Married (and not separated) 11,155 11,010 85 15
Living common law 1,020 1,010 10 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 5,820 5,775 25 10
Single (never legally married) 4,080 4,065 15 5
Separated 340 340 0 0
Divorced 565 560 5 0
Widowed 835 815 5 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 22,785 22,310 140 25
English only 21,535 21,540 0 0
French only 5 0 0 0
English and French 930 770 135 25
Neither English nor French 315 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 22,785 22,315 140 25
Single responses 22,625 22,165 135 20
English 18,005 18,005 0 0
French 155 20 135 0
Non-official languages 4,470 4,135 0 20
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 4,450 4,115 5 20
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 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 30 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 45 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 35 35 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 10 15 0 0
Dutch 335 315 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 2,985 2,755 0 10
Greek 30 30 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 60 60 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 30 25 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 30 25 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 30 30 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 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) 55 55 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 125 125 0 5
Portuguese 60 50 0 0
Romanian 95 90 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 85 80 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 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 5 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 65 55 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 25 20 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 15 15 0 0
Multiple responses 160 150 5 5
English and French 25 15 0 5
English and non-official language 120 125 0 0
French and non-official language 10 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 22,790 22,315 140 25
Single responses 22,515 22,050 135 20
English 19,915 19,825 90 0
French 55 10 40 0
Non-official languages 2,545 2,215 0 20
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 2,545 2,210 5 20
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 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 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 135 115 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,940 1,695 5 10
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 15 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 15 10 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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 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) 35 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 30 25 0 5
Portuguese 20 15 0 0
Romanian 45 35 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 50 40 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 45 35 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 20 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 0 5 0 0
Multiple responses 275 265 5 5
English and French 20 10 5 5
English and non-official language 255 255 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 22,790 22,310 140 25
None 20,860 20,470 80 15
Single responses 1,890 1,805 65 10
English 830 770 30 5
French 110 80 30 0
Non-official languages 950 950 0 0
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 14 940 935 0 0
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 5 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 85 90 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 440 440 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 10 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 10 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 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) 10 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 5 0 0
Polish 55 50 0 0
Portuguese 30 30 0 0
Romanian 25 30 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 40 40 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 15 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 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 10 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 15 15 0 0
Multiple responses 35 35 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 5 5 0 0
French and non-official language 30 30 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 22,785 22,310 140 25
English 22,315 22,310 0 0
French 145 0 140 0
English and French 25 0 0 25
Neither English nor French 310 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 155 0 140 15
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 0.7 0.0 100.0 60.0

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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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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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Footnote 11

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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Footnote 15

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 16

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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