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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), Mother Tongue (4A), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , mother tongue , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Trois-RivièresFootnote 2
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 3 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 149,710 1,775 147,225 515
0 to 4 years 7,170 40 7,025 30
5 to 9 years 6,470 55 6,390 15
10 to 14 years 7,070 90 6,935 40
15 to 19 years 9,175 85 9,015 65
20 to 24 years 9,800 80 9,660 45
25 to 29 years 9,155 110 8,985 45
30 to 34 years 9,100 105 8,930 55
35 to 39 years 7,715 100 7,545 60
40 to 44 years 8,565 145 8,355 50
45 to 49 years 11,640 160 11,450 25
50 to 54 years 12,900 145 12,725 25
55 to 59 years 12,180 130 12,035 10
60 to 64 years 10,965 165 10,770 20
65 to 69 years 9,050 130 8,910 10
70 to 74 years 6,460 70 6,375 5
75 to 79 years 5,160 70 5,090 5
80 to 84 years 4,005 40 3,955 10
85 years and over 3,130 40 3,080 0
Median ageFootnote 4 45.3 47.5 45.4 31.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 129,000 1,590 126,880 430
Married or living with a common-law partner 70,880 930 69,670 230
Married (and not separated) 40,210 610 39,350 205
Living common law 30,675 315 30,320 25
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 58,115 660 57,210 200
Single (never legally married) 37,830 385 37,245 165
Separated 1,735 30 1,695 5
Divorced 10,395 155 10,215 20
Widowed 8,155 85 8,050 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 149,715 1,775 147,230 515
English only 190 190 0 0
French only 106,775 0 106,780 0
English and French 42,535 1,590 40,435 515
Neither English nor French 210 0 15 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 149,710 1,775 147,225 515
Single responses 148,840 1,730 146,570 350
English 1,655 1,565 95 0
French 144,540 10 144,530 0
Non-official languages 2,645 160 1,945 350
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 90 0 80 5
Atikamekw 85 0 70 10
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 0 5 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 8 2,470 155 1,800 330
African languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 485 10 360 65
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 0 15 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 15 0 15 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 5 0
Bosnian 10 0 10 0
Bulgarian 10 0 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 15 35 15
Creoles 75 0 70 5
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 30 5 20 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 125 10 85 25
Greek 80 15 55 15
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 0 0 5 0
Hungarian 5 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 45 5 40 5
Japanese 15 5 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 5 25 0
Korean 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 0 15 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 10 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 5
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 0 5 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 0 20 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 15 0 10 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 5 0
Polish 20 5 10 5
Portuguese 85 5 50 25
Romanian 40 5 25 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 35 0 25 5
Russian 30 5 20 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 0 10 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 0 20 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 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 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 840 10 670 85
Swahili 60 0 55 10
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 20 20 0 5
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 5 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 0 10 5
Ukrainian 5 0 5 5
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 60 5 45 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 90 0 75 15
Multiple responses 870 45 655 165
English and French 590 35 395 160
English and non-official language 20 10 5 0
French and non-official language 240 0 240 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 15 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 149,710 1,775 147,225 520
Single responses 148,620 1,665 146,440 325
English 985 770 215 0
French 146,330 835 145,500 0
Non-official languages 1,300 55 730 320
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 40 0 25 5
Atikamekw 40 0 25 5
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 12 1,225 60 680 305
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 200 10 75 65
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 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 10 0 0 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 10 20 10
Creoles 10 0 5 10
Croatian 5 0 0 5
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 5 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 50 0 25 20
Greek 25 0 15 10
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 5
Japanese 10 5 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 0 10 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 5 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 15 5 5 10
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 5 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 0 5 0
Portuguese 45 0 20 25
Romanian 25 0 10 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 0 0
Russian 10 0 10 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 0 10 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 5
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 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 580 10 410 80
Swahili 20 0 10 10
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 10 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 5 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 5 20 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 35 0 15 10
Multiple responses 1,090 115 785 195
English and French 495 75 250 170
English and non-official language 40 30 10 0
French and non-official language 500 5 500 0
English, French and non-official language 60 5 25 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 149,715 1,780 147,225 515
None 142,725 775 141,460 315
Single responses 6,745 975 5,600 155
English 4,515 495 4,005 5
French 1,160 445 570 130
Non-official languages 1,065 30 1,020 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 40 0 40 0
Atikamekw 35 0 35 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 16 940 35 890 15
African languages, n.i.e. 15 0 15 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 205 0 210 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 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 0 5 0
Creoles 60 0 60 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 0 10 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 40 5 30 0
Greek 35 5 30 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Italian 20 5 10 0
Japanese 10 0 10 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 0 10 0
Korean 0 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 10 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 0 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 15 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 10 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 0 5 0
Portuguese 15 0 20 0
Romanian 10 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 10 0
Russian 5 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 10 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 0 10 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 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 315 5 305 5
Swahili 40 5 35 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 0 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 5 0 5 0
Ukrainian 5 0 5 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 90 0 90 0
Multiple responses 245 25 170 50
English and French 60 5 10 45
English and non-official language 160 5 155 0
French and non-official language 20 15 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 149,710 1,780 147,225 515
English 1,775 1,780 0 0
French 147,230 0 147,225 0
English and French 515 0 0 520
Neither English nor French 195 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 2,035 1,780 0 255
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 1.4 100.0 0.0 49.5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Language groups are defined as follows: 'English' includes respondents who reported English only or English and one non-official language; 'French' includes respondents who reported French only or French and one non-official language; 'English and French' includes respondents who reported English and French, with or without one non-official language.

'Total' category includes all groups mentioned as well as respondents who reported a non-official language as their only mother tongue.

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Footnote 2

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

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Footnote 3

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 11

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 14

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 18

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 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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Footnote 20

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-XCB2011058.

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