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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 Cochrane
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 80,215 44,140 35,520 460
0 to 4 years 4,470 2,980 1,420 65
5 to 9 years 4,370 2,790 1,535 45
10 to 14 years 4,970 3,090 1,825 55
15 to 19 years 5,510 3,320 2,155 35
20 to 24 years 4,740 2,910 1,795 30
25 to 29 years 4,500 2,835 1,650 10
30 to 34 years 4,570 2,745 1,800 20
35 to 39 years 4,700 2,590 2,090 20
40 to 44 years 5,375 2,915 2,445 15
45 to 49 years 6,750 3,465 3,260 20
50 to 54 years 7,195 3,510 3,635 40
55 to 59 years 6,180 3,105 3,050 25
60 to 64 years 5,235 2,535 2,675 30
65 to 69 years 3,755 1,670 2,065 20
70 to 74 years 2,900 1,275 1,605 10
75 to 79 years 2,395 1,090 1,285 10
80 to 84 years 1,555 750 780 5
85 years and over 1,040 555 455 5
Median ageFootnote 2 42.1 37.8 46.8 26.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 66,405 35,270 30,740 300
Married or living with a common-law partner 41,100 20,815 20,090 150
Married (and not separated) 31,795 15,775 15,860 115
Living common law 9,305 5,035 4,230 40
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 25,305 14,460 10,655 150
Single (never legally married) 15,805 9,580 6,110 100
Separated 2,230 1,180 1,040 10
Divorced 3,060 1,675 1,365 15
Widowed 4,210 2,020 2,140 20
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 80,215 44,135 35,520 455
English only 33,770 33,770 0 0
French only 4,330 0 4,330 0
English and French 42,010 10,365 31,185 460
Neither English nor French 110 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 80,215 44,135 35,520 460
Single responses 78,465 43,050 35,270 45
English 39,000 38,985 10 0
French 35,625 430 35,200 0
Non-official languages 3,840 3,640 55 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 1,580 1,550 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,510 1,480 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 45 40 0 0
Oji-Cree 30 30 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 2,215 2,060 55 40
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 20 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 130 120 0 0
Creoles 5 0 5 0
Croatian 110 105 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 55 60 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 250 240 5 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 215 210 0 0
Greek 5 10 0 5
Gujarati 25 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 485 455 10 10
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 5
Polish 150 150 0 5
Portuguese 80 65 10 5
Romanian 25 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 10 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 75 50 10 10
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 100 100 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 90 80 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 5 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 40 30 5 5
Multiple responses 1,755 1,085 255 415
English and French 1,440 795 240 405
English and non-official language 275 270 0 0
French and non-official language 25 15 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 80,215 44,140 35,520 460
Single responses 78,110 43,525 34,440 45
English 50,685 42,015 8,670 0
French 26,195 440 25,755 0
Non-official languages 1,225 1,070 20 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 570 540 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 565 530 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 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 10 10 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 640 525 10 35
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 90 75 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 35 35 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 40 30 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 25 20 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 120 95 0 5
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 5
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 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 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 10 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 30 25 0 5
Portuguese 30 20 5 0
Romanian 5 10 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 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5
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 35 15 5 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 40 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 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 0 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 5 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 15 0 5 5
Multiple responses 2,110 610 1,080 420
English and French 1,700 230 1,065 400
English and non-official language 375 375 0 0
French and non-official language 15 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 80,215 44,135 35,520 460
None 58,670 37,635 20,505 430
Single responses 21,445 6,430 14,985 25
English 10,530 815 9,685 20
French 8,980 3,760 5,225 0
Non-official languages 1,925 1,850 70 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 1,115 1,105 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,065 1,055 5 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 30 35 0 0
Oji-Cree 15 15 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 785 725 55 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 5 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 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0
Creoles 5 5 5 0
Croatian 35 35 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 15 10 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 85 85 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 80 80 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 175 160 10 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 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 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 55 50 0 0
Portuguese 30 30 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 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. 10 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. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 85 55 30 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 0
Urdu 5 10 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 25 15 10 0
Multiple responses 110 70 30 5
English and French 5 5 0 0
English and non-official language 25 5 20 0
French and non-official language 70 65 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 80,215 44,140 35,520 455
English 44,140 44,140 0 0
French 35,520 0 35,520 0
English and French 460 0 0 460
Neither English nor French 100 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 35,750 0 35,520 230
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 44.6 0.0 100.0 50.5

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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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