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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 Division No. 2
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 155,285 151,830 1,320 220
0 to 4 years 11,475 10,645 45 15
5 to 9 years 10,040 9,780 35 20
10 to 14 years 10,145 10,025 35 20
15 to 19 years 10,875 10,780 45 15
20 to 24 years 12,105 11,990 60 15
25 to 29 years 11,655 11,505 65 15
30 to 34 years 10,595 10,350 100 25
35 to 39 years 9,615 9,390 105 20
40 to 44 years 9,365 9,145 110 15
45 to 49 years 10,510 10,310 110 10
50 to 54 years 10,960 10,745 135 10
55 to 59 years 9,710 9,545 110 5
60 to 64 years 8,170 7,985 125 5
65 to 69 years 6,065 5,940 80 5
70 to 74 years 4,605 4,510 55 0
75 to 79 years 3,810 3,715 45 5
80 to 84 years 3,030 2,965 25 5
85 years and over 2,565 2,505 20 0
Median ageFootnote 2 35.4 35.4 47.1 31.1
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 123,625 121,375 1,200 165
Married or living with a common-law partner 75,315 73,775 800 100
Married (and not separated) 65,405 64,020 670 90
Living common law 9,910 9,750 135 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 48,310 47,605 395 60
Single (never legally married) 32,215 31,835 215 50
Separated 2,530 2,465 45 5
Divorced 7,395 7,295 80 5
Widowed 6,165 6,005 60 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 155,285 151,830 1,320 220
English only 147,525 147,520 0 0
French only 110 0 110 0
English and French 5,680 4,245 1,210 220
Neither English nor French 1,975 60 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 155,285 151,835 1,320 220
Single responses 153,520 150,155 1,265 190
English 125,630 125,630 5 0
French 1,395 205 1,190 0
Non-official languages 26,490 24,320 70 190
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 55 50 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 40 35 0 0
Dene 0 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 5 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 6 26,005 23,845 70 185
African languages, n.i.e. 260 250 0 0
Afrikaans 70 70 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 5
Albanian 55 55 0 0
Amharic 150 145 0 0
Arabic 440 400 5 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 55 40 5 5
Bengali 60 60 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 95 95 0 0
Bosnian 40 45 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 5
Burmese 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 295 240 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 770 600 0 0
Creoles 30 20 5 5
Croatian 220 205 0 5
Czech 110 110 0 0
Danish 120 120 0 0
Dutch 2,670 2,650 0 5
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 35 30 0 0
Flemish 30 30 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 12,120 10,995 5 15
Greek 45 45 0 0
Gujarati 100 95 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 85 85 0 0
Hungarian 590 580 0 0
Ilocano 30 30 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Italian 330 320 0 5
Japanese 500 475 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 120 105 0 0
Korean 190 185 0 0
Kurdish 15 10 5 0
Lao 40 35 0 5
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 10 5 5 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 160 140 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 270 150 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 80 65 5 10
Norwegian 45 45 0 0
Oromo 240 215 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 180 165 0 0
Pashto 35 25 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 165 160 0 0
Polish 525 515 5 0
Portuguese 45 45 0 0
Romanian 100 75 0 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 5 5 5
Russian 155 145 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 40 40 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 0 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 35 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Slovak 125 120 0 0
Slovenian 65 60 0 0
Somali 155 135 5 5
Spanish 1,495 1,305 10 55
Swahili 70 45 15 5
Swedish 25 25 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,140 1,130 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 55 55 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 30 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 435 425 0 0
Urdu 170 160 0 0
Vietnamese 205 175 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 435 430 0 5
Multiple responses 1,765 1,680 55 30
English and French 200 165 5 30
English and non-official language 1,445 1,440 0 0
French and non-official language 105 60 45 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 155,285 151,835 1,320 220
Single responses 152,650 149,335 1,235 170
English 137,745 136,970 770 0
French 515 80 430 0
Non-official languages 14,390 12,280 30 170
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 5 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 5 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 14,255 12,155 25 165
African languages, n.i.e. 140 135 0 0
Afrikaans 60 60 0 5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 5
Albanian 40 40 0 0
Amharic 95 90 0 5
Arabic 270 235 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 5
Bengali 45 40 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 50 50 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 185 125 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 535 365 5 0
Creoles 10 5 0 5
Croatian 90 80 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 425 410 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 8,000 6,885 0 15
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 75 75 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 50 40 0 5
Hungarian 60 55 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 65 60 0 0
Japanese 150 130 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 75 0 5
Korean 145 140 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 30 25 0 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 125 100 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 250 130 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 10
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 195 165 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 105 90 0 0
Pashto 35 25 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 115 105 0 0
Polish 165 160 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 60 30 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5
Russian 60 50 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 25 20 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 5
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 130 110 5 5
Spanish 980 785 10 50
Swahili 30 20 0 5
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 695 685 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 25 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 75 70 0 0
Urdu 95 80 0 0
Vietnamese 155 130 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 125 115 5 5
Multiple responses 2,635 2,500 90 50
English and French 90 15 35 35
English and non-official language 2,450 2,440 10 0
French and non-official language 65 35 30 0
English, French and non-official language 35 5 15 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 155,280 151,830 1,320 220
None 141,100 138,525 760 120
Single responses 13,915 13,090 540 80
English 6,440 5,960 225 60
French 875 605 265 5
Non-official languages 6,600 6,525 45 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 30 30 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 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 14 6,160 6,080 40 10
African languages, n.i.e. 60 60 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 45 40 0 0
Arabic 200 190 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 30 25 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 55 55 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 170 165 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 65 60 0 0
Czech 20 25 0 0
Danish 45 45 0 0
Dutch 1,050 1,045 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 10 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,820 1,820 0 0
Greek 30 25 0 0
Gujarati 25 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 50 45 0 0
Hungarian 145 145 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 115 110 0 5
Japanese 195 190 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 35 0 0
Korean 45 45 0 0
Kurdish 5 10 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 10 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 50 50 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0
Norwegian 10 15 0 0
Oromo 25 25 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 0
Polish 150 145 0 0
Portuguese 20 20 0 0
Romanian 25 20 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 0
Russian 75 75 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 30 25 0 0
Spanish 630 625 0 5
Swahili 50 40 5 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 315 315 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 35 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 75 75 0 0
Urdu 25 20 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 415 410 5 0
Multiple responses 265 220 25 20
English and French 25 5 5 15
English and non-official language 85 70 10 0
French and non-official language 155 145 5 5
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 155,285 151,830 1,320 220
English 151,835 151,830 0 0
French 1,320 0 1,320 0
English and French 220 0 0 220
Neither English nor French 1,910 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,430 0 1,320 110
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 0.9 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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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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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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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