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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 Oshawa, CY
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 148,230 144,195 3,040 325
0 to 4 years 8,350 8,150 90 25
5 to 9 years 7,980 7,870 75 25
10 to 14 years 8,535 8,410 85 40
15 to 19 years 10,130 9,990 100 35
20 to 24 years 10,145 10,005 105 25
25 to 29 years 9,585 9,405 150 15
30 to 34 years 9,365 9,150 190 10
35 to 39 years 9,460 9,230 180 30
40 to 44 years 10,085 9,815 235 20
45 to 49 years 12,725 12,345 330 25
50 to 54 years 12,185 11,790 350 10
55 to 59 years 10,055 9,735 265 10
60 to 64 years 8,735 8,425 245 10
65 to 69 years 6,400 6,145 195 10
70 to 74 years 4,995 4,775 130 10
75 to 79 years 4,105 3,870 155 5
80 to 84 years 3,025 2,855 100 0
85 years and over 2,365 2,225 50 0
Median ageFootnote 2 40.3 39.9 49.6 28.3
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 123,365 119,770 2,785 235
Married or living with a common-law partner 67,675 65,485 1,740 120
Married (and not separated) 54,925 53,085 1,405 115
Living common law 12,750 12,395 335 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 55,690 54,285 1,050 115
Single (never legally married) 35,025 34,385 525 85
Separated 4,910 4,780 115 5
Divorced 8,765 8,510 215 15
Widowed 6,985 6,610 195 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 148,230 144,195 3,035 320
English only 137,935 137,930 0 0
French only 150 0 155 0
English and French 9,440 6,230 2,885 325
Neither English nor French 710 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 148,230 144,195 3,035 325
Single responses 146,585 142,700 2,970 240
English 128,555 128,550 0 0
French 3,205 280 2,925 0
Non-official languages 14,830 13,870 45 235
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 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 14,700 13,750 40 235
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0
Amharic 15 10 0 0
Arabic 395 360 10 15
Armenian 35 30 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 10 5 0
Bengali 105 105 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 225 195 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 455 380 0 5
Creoles 30 30 0 5
Croatian 200 195 0 0
Czech 55 55 0 0
Danish 45 45 0 0
Dutch 600 595 0 0
Estonian 35 40 0 0
Finnish 80 80 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 975 970 0 0
Greek 370 365 0 5
Gujarati 265 245 0 5
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 110 110 0 0
Hungarian 475 450 0 5
Ilocano 20 25 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 1,525 1,430 5 10
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0
Korean 145 140 0 0
Kurdish 10 15 0 0
Lao 30 30 0 0
Latvian 35 35 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 25 0 0
Macedonian 175 160 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0
Maltese 140 135 0 0
Mandarin 190 165 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 155 140 0 5
Pashto 15 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 400 365 0 10
Polish 1,940 1,830 0 35
Portuguese 890 820 5 15
Romanian 165 135 0 25
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 300 260 0 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Serbian 170 155 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0
Sindhi 30 30 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 35 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Slovak 90 90 0 0
Slovenian 90 90 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 975 885 5 25
Swahili 40 35 0 0
Swedish 20 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 555 550 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 195 175 0 5
Telugu 25 25 0 0
Thai 15 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 15 0 0
Turkish 45 35 0 0
Ukrainian 835 790 0 15
Urdu 410 390 0 0
Vietnamese 150 120 0 5
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 120 110 0 0
Multiple responses 1,645 1,495 70 90
English and French 430 320 25 80
English and non-official language 1,115 1,120 0 0
French and non-official language 75 40 35 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 5 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 148,235 144,190 3,035 325
Single responses 145,670 141,935 2,850 205
English 138,680 136,975 1,705 0
French 1,200 70 1,135 0
Non-official languages 5,790 4,895 15 210
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 5,750 4,855 15 205
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 10 5 0 0
Arabic 190 160 0 15
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Bengali 50 50 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 125 95 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 290 220 0 5
Creoles 10 5 0 5
Croatian 45 40 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 20 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 100 95 0 0
Greek 115 105 0 0
Gujarati 140 115 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 45 40 0 0
Hungarian 145 120 0 5
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 475 380 5 5
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 105 95 0 0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 45 35 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 5
Malayalam 15 10 0 0
Maltese 25 25 0 5
Mandarin 135 115 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 75 55 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 255 215 0 5
Polish 900 800 5 30
Portuguese 360 290 0 10
Romanian 75 45 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 135 95 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 95 80 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 45 30 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 470 390 5 20
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 175 165 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 120 100 0 5
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 30 20 0 5
Ukrainian 260 220 0 15
Urdu 330 310 0 0
Vietnamese 105 80 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 40 30 0 0
Multiple responses 2,565 2,255 185 120
English and French 310 60 160 90
English and non-official language 2,180 2,175 5 0
French and non-official language 15 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 55 15 10 25
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 148,235 144,195 3,040 320
None 137,830 135,365 1,675 165
Single responses 10,175 8,640 1,350 140
English 3,145 2,410 595 115
French 1,660 965 690 5
Non-official languages 5,370 5,265 65 25
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 10 10 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 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 5,275 5,165 65 20
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 135 120 5 10
Armenian 15 15 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 0
Bengali 40 40 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 80 80 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 90 90 0 5
Creoles 35 30 0 0
Croatian 110 110 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 205 205 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 20 20 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 335 330 0 5
Greek 185 190 0 0
Gujarati 100 100 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 5
Hindi 75 75 0 0
Hungarian 130 130 0 0
Ilocano 10 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 605 595 10 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 10 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0
Lingala 15 0 15 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 80 80 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 45 45 0 0
Mandarin 55 55 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 20 10 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 50 50 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 100 100 0 0
Polish 540 540 0 5
Portuguese 360 360 0 0
Romanian 55 55 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 95 85 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 65 55 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 20 25 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 30 30 5 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 495 485 10 0
Swahili 25 25 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 250 245 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 45 45 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 255 260 0 0
Urdu 105 100 0 0
Vietnamese 35 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 90 90 0 0
Multiple responses 225 190 10 20
English and French 30 5 0 20
English and non-official language 55 50 10 5
French and non-official language 145 140 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 148,235 144,195 3,040 325
English 144,195 144,195 0 0
French 3,040 0 3,040 0
English and French 325 0 0 325
Neither English nor French 675 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 3,200 0 3,040 160
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.2 0.0 100.0 49.2

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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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Footnote 6

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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Footnote 11

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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