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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 Peterborough
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 117,595 116,085 1,170 120
0 to 4 years 5,660 5,575 35 10
5 to 9 years 5,375 5,330 35 10
10 to 14 years 6,210 6,160 40 10
15 to 19 years 7,820 7,745 55 20
20 to 24 years 8,710 8,645 35 10
25 to 29 years 7,095 7,005 70 5
30 to 34 years 6,000 5,935 50 5
35 to 39 years 6,075 5,990 75 5
40 to 44 years 6,875 6,770 90 10
45 to 49 years 8,755 8,615 125 5
50 to 54 years 9,410 9,280 105 5
55 to 59 years 9,015 8,915 80 5
60 to 64 years 8,425 8,330 80 5
65 to 69 years 6,520 6,410 95 0
70 to 74 years 4,925 4,830 75 5
75 to 79 years 4,295 4,225 50 5
80 to 84 years 3,400 3,335 50 0
85 years and over 3,035 3,000 25 0
Median ageFootnote 3 44.3 44.2 48.8 24.7
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 100,345 99,030 1,065 90
Married or living with a common-law partner 58,450 57,590 725 45
Married (and not separated) 48,645 47,920 595 45
Living common law 9,800 9,675 130 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 41,895 41,435 335 45
Single (never legally married) 25,745 25,505 160 35
Separated 3,270 3,230 30 5
Divorced 6,065 5,995 60 5
Widowed 6,810 6,700 85 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 117,590 116,085 1,170 120
English only 109,420 109,425 0 0
French only 30 0 30 0
English and French 7,890 6,630 1,140 120
Neither English nor French 250 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 117,595 116,080 1,170 120
Single responses 116,910 115,455 1,145 90
English 109,395 109,390 10 0
French 1,265 140 1,125 0
Non-official languages 6,255 5,925 15 95
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 90 90 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 80 80 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 6,055 5,740 10 90
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 85 80 5 5
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 160 150 0 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Bengali 40 35 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 20 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 90 85 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 315 275 0 5
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 25 30 0 0
Czech 85 80 0 0
Danish 45 45 0 0
Dutch 645 640 0 5
Estonian 25 25 0 5
Finnish 95 95 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 890 880 0 0
Greek 100 100 0 0
Gujarati 175 155 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0
Hindi 75 70 0 0
Hungarian 120 115 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 375 370 0 0
Japanese 35 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 70 0 0
Korean 195 180 0 5
Kurdish 10 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 10 15 0 0
Maltese 30 30 0 0
Mandarin 110 100 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 15 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 80 70 0 0
Pashto 25 20 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 110 100 0 5
Polish 490 470 0 15
Portuguese 100 95 5 0
Romanian 55 40 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 100 90 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 25 25 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 25 30 0 0
Slovenian 20 15 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0
Spanish 325 305 0 10
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 25 20 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 100 100 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 65 60 0 0
Telugu 25 25 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 20 15 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 110 110 0 0
Urdu 120 110 0 0
Vietnamese 135 115 0 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 105 90 5 0
Multiple responses 680 635 25 25
English and French 220 180 15 20
English and non-official language 410 415 0 0
French and non-official language 25 25 5 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 117,595 116,085 1,165 120
Single responses 116,635 115,210 1,125 80
English 114,195 113,385 810 0
French 375 55 310 0
Non-official languages 2,070 1,760 0 80
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 20 25 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 20 25 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 2,000 1,710 0 85
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 35 25 0 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 85 70 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 20 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 200 160 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 25 20 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 45 35 0 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 110 110 0 5
Greek 15 10 0 0
Gujarati 95 80 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 5
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 90 80 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 25 0 0
Korean 160 140 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 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 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 85 70 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 30 0 0
Pashto 15 10 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 55 45 0 5
Polish 185 160 0 15
Portuguese 20 20 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 30 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 30 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 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0
Spanish 135 120 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 25 25 0 5
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 90 85 0 0
Vietnamese 75 60 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 45 30 0 0
Multiple responses 960 875 45 40
English and French 110 45 40 25
English and non-official language 825 820 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 117,595 116,085 1,170 120
None 112,905 111,970 665 70
Single responses 4,585 4,020 495 45
English 1,095 870 155 45
French 1,190 870 315 0
Non-official languages 2,295 2,275 20 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 160 160 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 5 0 0
Ojibway 155 155 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 2,060 2,035 15 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 40 45 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 50 50 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 60 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 185 185 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 35 35 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 290 290 0 0
Greek 55 55 0 0
Gujarati 45 45 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0
Hungarian 40 35 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 125 125 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 35 35 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 10 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 10 5 0 0
Mandarin 40 35 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 30 0 0
Polish 155 155 0 0
Portuguese 55 50 0 0
Romanian 25 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 35 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 215 210 5 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 0
Vietnamese 40 45 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 85 80 0 0
Multiple responses 105 95 10 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 20 15 5 0
French and non-official language 80 80 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 117,590 116,085 1,170 120
English 116,080 116,080 0 0
French 1,170 0 1,170 0
English and French 120 0 0 120
Neither English nor French 220 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,230 0 1,165 60
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.0 0.0 99.6 50.0

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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

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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Footnote 10

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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Footnote 14

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 17

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-XCB2011058.

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