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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 Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury
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 159,200 115,920 42,125 825
0 to 4 years 8,080 6,270 1,605 145
5 to 9 years 8,045 6,180 1,805 60
10 to 14 years 8,950 6,980 1,895 75
15 to 19 years 10,495 8,065 2,370 50
20 to 24 years 10,535 8,130 2,340 70
25 to 29 years 9,695 7,505 2,130 55
30 to 34 years 9,565 7,195 2,325 40
35 to 39 years 9,995 7,395 2,545 40
40 to 44 years 10,565 7,765 2,745 45
45 to 49 years 13,465 9,525 3,880 50
50 to 54 years 13,155 9,055 4,050 40
55 to 59 years 11,735 8,110 3,575 35
60 to 64 years 10,305 7,190 3,080 25
65 to 69 years 7,755 5,125 2,580 30
70 to 74 years 6,070 4,055 1,965 20
75 to 79 years 4,895 3,195 1,630 25
80 to 84 years 3,505 2,390 1,065 20
85 years and over 2,390 1,780 540 10
Median ageFootnote 3 42.0 40.1 46.8 26.7
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 134,120 96,485 36,820 550
Married or living with a common-law partner 78,995 55,360 23,200 295
Married (and not separated) 63,820 44,335 19,105 235
Living common law 15,175 11,025 4,095 60
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 55,125 41,125 13,615 250
Single (never legally married) 34,485 26,700 7,580 180
Separated 4,615 3,295 1,310 10
Divorced 7,445 5,305 2,105 25
Widowed 8,585 5,820 2,625 35
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 159,195 115,920 42,125 820
English only 95,385 95,390 0 0
French only 1,665 0 1,670 0
English and French 61,800 20,520 40,455 820
Neither English nor French 350 15 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 159,195 115,920 42,125 825
Single responses 155,915 113,520 41,835 230
English 102,755 102,740 15 0
French 42,815 1,165 41,650 0
Non-official languages 10,345 9,620 165 230
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 290 285 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 65 60 0 5
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 220 220 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 9,945 9,255 155 220
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 5
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 405 315 25 45
Armenian 10 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 25 10 0
Bengali 15 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 135 110 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 265 235 0 5
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 280 260 0 20
Czech 65 65 0 0
Danish 30 35 0 0
Dutch 165 165 0 5
Estonian 35 40 0 0
Finnish 1,440 1,415 0 5
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 765 755 10 5
Greek 140 130 0 5
Gujarati 95 75 0 5
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 75 75 0 0
Hungarian 105 100 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 2,740 2,585 20 30
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 90 75 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 35 40 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 50 50 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 85 75 5 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 10 5 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 85 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 65 60 0 0
Polish 535 505 5 10
Portuguese 185 145 10 30
Romanian 45 35 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 15 0
Russian 80 70 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 85 85 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 15 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Sindhi 20 15 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Slovak 55 55 0 0
Slovenian 55 60 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 290 245 15 25
Swahili 15 5 5 0
Swedish 25 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 110 110 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0
Thai 10 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0
Ukrainian 585 570 0 5
Urdu 120 110 0 5
Vietnamese 100 90 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 105 80 5 5
Multiple responses 3,280 2,395 290 600
English and French 2,500 1,695 220 580
English and non-official language 635 635 0 0
French and non-official language 105 40 65 0
English, French and non-official language 45 30 5 15
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 159,195 115,915 42,125 825
Single responses 155,525 114,450 40,535 205
English 128,790 111,300 17,490 0
French 23,500 490 23,005 0
Non-official languages 3,235 2,660 35 205
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 70 65 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 25 0 5
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 45 45 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 3,130 2,585 35 195
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 245 175 0 45
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 10 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 45 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 155 125 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 85 60 0 20
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 285 260 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 90 85 0 0
Greek 55 45 0 5
Gujarati 55 50 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 35 30 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 895 750 10 25
Japanese 5 5 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 60 55 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 5
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 65 50 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 40 0 0
Polish 155 135 0 10
Portuguese 70 35 0 25
Romanian 10 5 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 40 30 5 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 35 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 10 10 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 120 90 0 25
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 15 10 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 120 105 0 5
Urdu 70 65 0 5
Vietnamese 65 60 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 35 15 0 5
Multiple responses 3,675 1,460 1,590 620
English and French 2,385 265 1,530 585
English and non-official language 1,195 1,185 10 0
French and non-official language 40 5 40 0
English, French and non-official language 50 5 10 35
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 159,200 115,915 42,125 820
None 124,150 103,920 19,230 700
Single responses 34,780 11,850 22,805 85
English 14,485 1,610 12,785 60
French 16,355 6,510 9,830 15
Non-official languages 3,935 3,725 195 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 295 290 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 30 25 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 260 260 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 3,560 3,380 160 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 130 100 25 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 5 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 55 50 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 65 0 0
Creoles 25 10 15 0
Croatian 100 100 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 35 40 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 515 515 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 260 260 0 0
Greek 65 60 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 75 70 5 0
Hungarian 25 25 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,005 980 20 5
Japanese 5 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 10 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 170 165 5 0
Portuguese 55 45 5 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 5 0
Russian 35 30 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 5 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 15 0 0
Slovenian 10 15 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 235 190 45 0
Swahili 15 5 10 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 25 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 165 165 5 0
Urdu 45 40 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 85 60 25 0
Multiple responses 275 150 85 35
English and French 45 5 5 30
English and non-official language 80 15 60 0
French and non-official language 155 130 20 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 159,200 115,920 42,125 825
English 115,920 115,915 0 0
French 42,125 0 42,125 0
English and French 820 0 0 825
Neither English nor French 335 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 42,535 0 42,125 410
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 26.7 0.0 100.0 49.7

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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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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 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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