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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 CourtenayFootnote 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 54,790 53,390 1,230 50
0 to 4 years 2,405 2,360 20 5
5 to 9 years 2,580 2,535 35 5
10 to 14 years 2,885 2,835 45 0
15 to 19 years 3,220 3,180 35 0
20 to 24 years 2,455 2,420 35 0
25 to 29 years 2,550 2,475 70 5
30 to 34 years 2,585 2,515 60 5
35 to 39 years 2,905 2,815 75 0
40 to 44 years 3,245 3,150 80 0
45 to 49 years 4,260 4,125 125 5
50 to 54 years 4,510 4,350 140 0
55 to 59 years 4,545 4,420 115 5
60 to 64 years 4,700 4,570 115 5
65 to 69 years 3,815 3,720 85 0
70 to 74 years 2,875 2,780 85 0
75 to 79 years 2,315 2,250 55 0
80 to 84 years 1,560 1,530 25 0
85 years and over 1,375 1,355 15 0
Median ageFootnote 4 48.1 48.0 51.1 39.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 46,920 45,655 1,125 30
Married or living with a common-law partner 28,420 27,560 765 20
Married (and not separated) 23,395 22,710 590 20
Living common law 5,025 4,850 175 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 18,500 18,100 365 10
Single (never legally married) 10,010 9,820 170 10
Separated 1,505 1,470 30 0
Divorced 3,965 3,855 100 0
Widowed 3,025 2,955 60 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 54,790 53,390 1,230 50
English only 49,680 49,680 0 0
French only 40 0 35 0
English and French 4,935 3,700 1,190 50
Neither English nor French 135 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 54,790 53,390 1,230 45
Single responses 54,425 53,075 1,205 25
English 49,790 49,790 0 0
French 1,310 120 1,190 0
Non-official languages 3,325 3,165 10 25
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 20 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 15 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 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 3,255 3,095 15 30
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 45 40 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 5 5 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 140 105 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 150 135 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 50 50 0 0
Danish 90 95 0 0
Dutch 320 320 0 5
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 65 65 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 875 860 0 10
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 5 10 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 5
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 100 100 0 5
Japanese 60 55 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 110 90 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 10 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 30 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 90 85 5 0
Portuguese 50 45 0 0
Romanian 20 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 40 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 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 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 180 170 5 5
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 50 45 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 155 155 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 105 105 0 0
Urdu 0 5 0 0
Vietnamese 140 120 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 50 50 0 0
Multiple responses 360 315 25 20
English and French 155 120 20 15
English and non-official language 185 185 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 54,790 53,390 1,230 50
Single responses 54,395 53,050 1,190 25
English 53,110 52,315 795 0
French 425 30 395 0
Non-official languages 860 705 5 30
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 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 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 12 845 695 5 25
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 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 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 90 55 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 90 80 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 105 90 0 10
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 10 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 85 65 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 15 0 0
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 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 15 0 5
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 5 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 55 50 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 30 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 5 10 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 105 80 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 10 15 0 0
Multiple responses 400 335 40 25
English and French 70 15 40 15
English and non-official language 320 315 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 54,790 53,390 1,230 50
None 52,085 51,285 660 30
Single responses 2,645 2,055 560 15
English 585 335 230 15
French 820 500 315 0
Non-official languages 1,235 1,215 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 10 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 10 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 1,175 1,155 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 0 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 10 15 0 0
Danish 30 25 0 0
Dutch 85 85 5 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 290 285 5 0
Greek 10 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 5 10 0 0
Ilocano 5 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 35 35 0 0
Japanese 35 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 25 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 5 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 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. 10 15 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 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 205 195 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 85 80 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 20 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 55 55 0 0
Multiple responses 60 50 15 0
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 15 10 10 0
French and non-official language 40 40 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 54,790 53,390 1,225 50
English 53,390 53,390 0 0
French 1,230 0 1,230 0
English and French 50 0 0 45
Neither English nor French 125 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 1,255 0 1,225 20
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 2.3 0.0 100.0 40.0

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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

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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