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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 Saanich, DM
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 108,835 105,630 1,310 360
0 to 4 years 4,555 4,370 30 20
5 to 9 years 4,920 4,845 25 15
10 to 14 years 5,560 5,475 30 45
15 to 19 years 7,215 7,090 55 50
20 to 24 years 8,335 8,240 60 25
25 to 29 years 6,590 6,495 60 20
30 to 34 years 5,715 5,585 85 20
35 to 39 years 6,145 6,015 80 10
40 to 44 years 6,985 6,795 105 30
45 to 49 years 8,280 8,030 140 25
50 to 54 years 8,785 8,535 110 30
55 to 59 years 8,485 8,230 145 15
60 to 64 years 7,700 7,435 110 10
65 to 69 years 5,560 5,335 90 15
70 to 74 years 4,220 3,975 40 5
75 to 79 years 3,770 3,525 55 10
80 to 84 years 3,030 2,825 40 10
85 years and over 2,970 2,830 45 10
Median ageFootnote 2 43.8 43.4 48.8 31.3
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 93,800 90,940 1,225 280
Married or living with a common-law partner 53,995 52,140 765 155
Married (and not separated) 46,540 44,870 600 145
Living common law 7,455 7,270 165 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 39,805 38,800 455 130
Single (never legally married) 25,750 25,335 255 105
Separated 2,205 2,140 30 5
Divorced 6,455 6,295 110 5
Widowed 5,400 5,025 70 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 108,835 105,630 1,310 360
English only 97,845 97,845 0 0
French only 30 0 25 0
English and French 9,385 7,745 1,280 360
Neither English nor French 1,570 40 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 108,835 105,630 1,310 365
Single responses 107,225 104,125 1,270 300
English 86,585 86,585 5 0
French 1,360 125 1,235 0
Non-official languages 19,285 17,425 35 300
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 19,110 17,260 30 300
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 40 35 0 5
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0
Albanian 50 45 0 0
Amharic 30 30 0 0
Arabic 345 275 5 35
Armenian 20 20 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Bengali 75 70 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 90 95 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0
Bulgarian 35 30 0 0
Burmese 15 15 0 0
Cantonese 1,880 1,510 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,600 2,200 0 25
Creoles 5 5 0 5
Croatian 245 235 0 5
Czech 90 85 0 5
Danish 140 140 0 0
Dutch 645 625 0 20
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 100 100 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 15 15 0 0
German 1,435 1,415 0 25
Greek 130 120 0 5
Gujarati 55 55 0 0
Hakka 10 10 0 0
Hebrew 40 35 0 5
Hindi 170 160 0 5
Hungarian 245 240 0 5
Ilocano 35 35 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5
Italian 470 455 5 5
Japanese 470 445 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 60 55 0 0
Korean 735 650 0 15
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 25 30 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 1,175 1,055 0 10
Marathi 15 10 0 0
Nepali 5 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 0
Norwegian 75 75 0 0
Oromo 15 5 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 2,555 2,205 5 20
Pashto 20 20 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 280 255 0 10
Polish 335 325 0 5
Portuguese 690 645 0 10
Romanian 110 100 0 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 290 260 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 80 65 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 30 30 0 0
Shanghainese 10 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 20 25 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 40 35 0 5
Slovenian 45 45 0 0
Somali 20 25 0 0
Spanish 875 810 5 30
Swahili 20 15 0 0
Swedish 50 50 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 830 825 0 0
Taiwanese 55 50 0 0
Tamil 45 45 0 0
Telugu 25 30 0 0
Thai 70 70 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 25 25 0 5
Turkish 60 55 0 0
Ukrainian 225 215 0 0
Urdu 85 75 0 5
Vietnamese 390 355 0 0
Yiddish 15 15 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 165 155 0 0
Multiple responses 1,605 1,500 40 65
English and French 250 190 5 50
English and non-official language 1,265 1,260 0 0
French and non-official language 55 30 30 0
English, French and non-official language 35 30 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 108,835 105,630 1,310 360
Single responses 106,170 103,110 1,240 290
English 96,615 95,735 880 0
French 370 25 350 0
Non-official languages 9,180 7,355 10 285
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 9,150 7,325 15 285
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 200 140 0 30
Armenian 10 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 55 50 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 5
Burmese 15 10 0 0
Cantonese 1,175 810 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,570 1,165 0 20
Creoles 10 5 0 5
Croatian 95 85 0 5
Czech 30 30 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 55 30 0 25
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 30 25 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 165 145 0 20
Greek 40 30 0 5
Gujarati 20 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 10 0 5
Hindi 80 70 0 0
Hungarian 45 45 5 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Italian 90 85 5 5
Japanese 195 165 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 40 30 0 0
Korean 575 495 0 15
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 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 10 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 875 745 0 10
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,620 1,270 0 20
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 165 145 0 10
Polish 80 65 0 5
Portuguese 275 230 0 10
Romanian 45 35 0 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 135 105 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 40 30 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 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. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 10 0 5
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 5 10 0 0
Spanish 350 285 0 35
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 325 320 0 0
Taiwanese 20 20 0 0
Tamil 25 30 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 25 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0
Ukrainian 45 35 0 0
Urdu 50 40 0 0
Vietnamese 255 215 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 30 25 0 0
Multiple responses 2,665 2,520 70 75
English and French 145 35 50 60
English and non-official language 2,470 2,465 5 0
French and non-official language 15 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 30 15 5 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 108,835 105,630 1,310 365
None 97,000 94,700 725 175
Single responses 11,630 10,765 570 165
English 3,995 3,590 170 155
French 1,070 720 350 0
Non-official languages 6,565 6,460 50 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 10 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 5 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 6,475 6,375 50 10
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 10 15 0 0
Amharic 20 15 0 0
Arabic 115 110 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 40 40 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 545 535 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 645 635 5 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 110 110 0 0
Czech 35 40 0 0
Danish 50 50 0 0
Dutch 180 180 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 35 30 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 520 515 0 0
Greek 50 45 0 0
Gujarati 35 35 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 110 110 0 5
Hungarian 85 85 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 185 180 5 0
Japanese 310 300 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 115 115 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 320 305 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0
Oromo 10 5 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 785 785 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 75 80 0 0
Polish 125 120 0 0
Portuguese 260 265 0 0
Romanian 45 40 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 85 75 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 5 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0
Spanish 575 560 10 5
Swahili 15 15 0 0
Swedish 25 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 340 335 5 0
Taiwanese 20 20 0 0
Tamil 25 25 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 35 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 10 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 0
Urdu 25 30 0 0
Vietnamese 120 110 0 0
Yiddish 10 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 75 75 0 0
Multiple responses 205 165 10 20
English and French 20 0 0 20
English and non-official language 65 60 5 0
French and non-official language 110 105 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 108,835 105,630 1,310 365
English 105,630 105,630 0 0
French 1,310 0 1,310 0
English and French 360 0 0 365
Neither English nor French 1,535 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,490 0 1,310 180
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.4 0.0 100.0 49.3

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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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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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