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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 Westmount, V
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 19,715 13,890 4,520 1,175
0 to 4 years 780 525 170 40
5 to 9 years 940 635 205 90
10 to 14 years 1,200 800 275 115
15 to 19 years 1,285 880 315 90
20 to 24 years 1,295 905 305 80
25 to 29 years 1,045 755 225 65
30 to 34 years 870 585 210 75
35 to 39 years 925 585 235 95
40 to 44 years 1,140 750 300 85
45 to 49 years 1,440 990 360 80
50 to 54 years 1,465 965 425 80
55 to 59 years 1,310 915 345 45
60 to 64 years 1,480 1,090 310 75
65 to 69 years 1,180 860 270 45
70 to 74 years 990 790 170 30
75 to 79 years 815 635 145 30
80 to 84 years 730 585 120 20
85 years and over 830 655 125 35
Median ageFootnote 2 46.4 47.8 45.2 37.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 16,800 11,930 3,870 930
Married or living with a common-law partner 9,175 6,490 2,130 520
Married (and not separated) 8,040 5,830 1,675 490
Living common law 1,140 660 450 25
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 7,625 5,440 1,750 410
Single (never legally married) 4,955 3,480 1,180 295
Separated 265 175 75 10
Divorced 1,170 840 270 50
Widowed 1,235 945 225 45
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 19,720 13,890 4,525 1,175
English only 3,955 3,955 0 0
French only 475 0 475 0
English and French 15,155 9,930 4,045 1,180
Neither English nor French 135 0 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 19,720 13,890 4,520 1,180
Single responses 19,005 13,495 4,390 985
English 10,840 10,835 0 0
French 3,950 15 3,935 0
Non-official languages 4,215 2,645 450 990
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 5 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 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 6 4,180 2,620 450 980
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 545 265 130 135
Armenian 65 25 10 30
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 25 15 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 45 20 0 25
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 45 35 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 225 155 15 40
Creoles 5 5 5 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 65 50 5 10
Danish 15 10 0 0
Dutch 60 45 5 5
Estonian 10 10 0 5
Finnish 5 10 0 0
Flemish 10 5 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 260 210 20 35
Greek 140 110 0 20
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 65 50 5 10
Hindi 30 20 0 5
Hungarian 100 90 5 5
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 275 215 30 25
Japanese 70 50 5 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 5 0
Korean 155 95 5 40
Kurdish 5 0 0 10
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 5
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 50 35 5 5
Marathi 0 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 5
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 215 115 15 75
Polish 145 110 15 15
Portuguese 70 35 15 25
Romanian 105 45 25 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 250 130 25 80
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 45 25 5 20
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 5 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 530 225 75 220
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 30 20 0 10
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 90 90 0 5
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 20 5 5
Ukrainian 35 20 0 15
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 80 20 20 30
Yiddish 75 75 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 35 20 5 5
Multiple responses 715 395 130 185
English and French 380 195 40 150
English and non-official language 160 155 0 0
French and non-official language 90 0 95 0
English, French and non-official language 80 45 5 35
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 19,715 13,895 4,525 1,175
Single responses 18,835 13,525 4,285 900
English 13,540 12,775 770 0
French 3,530 125 3,400 0
Non-official languages 1,765 620 115 900
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 1,750 620 115 895
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 5 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 255 105 25 110
Armenian 45 10 5 25
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 5 0 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 35 5 5 20
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 15 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 150 85 5 35
Creoles 5 0 5 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 15 0 0 15
Danish 0 0 0 5
Dutch 10 0 0 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 30 10 0 20
Greek 30 10 0 15
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 10 0 5
Hindi 10 10 0 5
Hungarian 15 5 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 30 5 5 15
Japanese 55 25 0 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 115 55 5 40
Kurdish 5 0 0 5
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 10
Macedonian 0 0 0 5
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 20 5 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 145 55 10 75
Polish 25 10 5 15
Portuguese 30 10 0 20
Romanian 35 0 5 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 145 55 10 70
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 25 5 5 20
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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 315 60 30 210
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 20 10 0 10
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 15 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 0 5 10
Ukrainian 10 0 0 15
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 45 5 5 25
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 5 0 10
Multiple responses 885 370 235 275
English and French 390 70 130 190
English and non-official language 280 280 0 0
French and non-official language 70 0 70 0
English, French and non-official language 135 25 30 85
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 19,720 13,890 4,525 1,175
None 13,715 10,580 2,395 630
Single responses 5,575 3,100 2,035 420
English 1,875 370 1,215 270
French 2,230 1,610 520 95
Non-official languages 1,470 1,120 295 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 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 14 1,455 1,105 295 50
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 225 115 100 10
Armenian 20 15 5 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 50 5 0
Creoles 20 5 20 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 10 5 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 95 80 10 5
Greek 80 75 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 35 30 5 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0
Hungarian 25 30 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 150 115 25 10
Japanese 20 15 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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) 60 55 5 0
Polish 40 35 0 0
Portuguese 25 25 5 0
Romanian 30 20 10 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 30 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 10 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 220 155 60 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 5
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 25 10 10 0
Yiddish 15 15 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 15 10 5 5
Multiple responses 430 210 95 130
English and French 125 5 10 115
English and non-official language 80 5 80 0
French and non-official language 215 200 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 15
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 19,715 13,890 4,520 1,175
English 13,890 13,895 0 0
French 4,525 0 4,520 0
English and French 1,180 0 0 1,175
Neither English nor French 130 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 14,480 13,890 0 585
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 73.4 100.0 0.0 49.8

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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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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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Footnote 14

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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