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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 Gatineau
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 263,260 37,715 216,755 7,320
0 to 4 years 16,605 2,275 13,305 505
5 to 9 years 14,500 1,970 12,035 440
10 to 14 years 15,150 1,875 12,670 580
15 to 19 years 17,935 2,285 14,960 680
20 to 24 years 18,300 2,840 14,820 620
25 to 29 years 18,450 3,170 14,615 645
30 to 34 years 19,085 3,365 15,025 650
35 to 39 years 18,255 3,195 14,265 745
40 to 44 years 18,730 3,120 14,815 730
45 to 49 years 22,180 3,160 18,385 585
50 to 54 years 21,850 2,820 18,535 420
55 to 59 years 17,960 2,255 15,350 295
60 to 64 years 14,655 1,860 12,525 175
65 to 69 years 10,475 1,220 9,065 110
70 to 74 years 7,145 900 6,080 55
75 to 79 years 5,425 655 4,640 40
80 to 84 years 3,890 420 3,380 35
85 years and over 2,665 330 2,275 15
Median ageFootnote 2 38.1 36.7 38.8 31.7
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 217,000 31,590 178,745 5,805
Married or living with a common-law partner 121,130 18,235 99,125 3,270
Married (and not separated) 78,520 13,565 61,540 2,945
Living common law 42,610 4,670 37,590 320
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 95,875 13,355 79,625 2,535
Single (never legally married) 64,965 9,045 53,755 2,065
Separated 4,625 870 3,630 105
Divorced 16,055 2,240 13,510 260
Widowed 10,230 1,205 8,725 105
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 263,255 37,715 216,755 7,325
English only 17,195 17,190 0 0
French only 76,050 0 76,050 0
English and French 168,480 20,505 140,655 7,315
Neither English nor French 1,535 20 50 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 263,260 37,715 216,755 7,320
Single responses 256,280 35,985 213,190 5,635
English 29,060 28,930 125 0
French 203,360 195 203,170 0
Non-official languages 23,860 6,860 9,900 5,635
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 100 70 10 15
Atikamekw 0 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 70 50 5 15
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 0 5 0
Inuktitut 10 10 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 23,305 6,715 9,595 5,560
African languages, n.i.e. 70 5 45 15
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 5 0
Albanian 35 25 5 10
Amharic 60 50 0 10
Arabic 5,655 1,325 2,265 1,700
Armenian 60 20 15 30
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 140 20 100 15
Bengali 75 60 5 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 105 0 85 15
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 140 35 65 35
Bulgarian 200 70 40 80
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 155 100 25 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 820 490 100 145
Creoles 760 45 600 85
Croatian 185 40 65 75
Czech 55 30 20 10
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 160 110 40 10
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0
Flemish 20 10 10 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 410 265 105 35
Greek 120 75 20 15
Gujarati 10 5 5 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 5 0 5
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 120 60 20 35
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Italian 405 215 150 45
Japanese 80 45 20 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 200 40 75 60
Korean 95 60 15 20
Kurdish 65 35 15 20
Lao 110 20 60 20
Latvian 10 10 5 0
Lingala 110 0 90 10
Lithuanian 10 10 0 5
Macedonian 5 0 0 5
Malay 25 20 5 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 445 260 65 65
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 295 15 240 35
Norwegian 10 10 0 5
Oromo 200 0 165 20
Panjabi (Punjabi) 60 50 5 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 480 275 80 80
Polish 365 200 90 70
Portuguese 2,515 430 1,445 425
Romanian 815 120 280 375
Rundi (Kirundi) 385 20 280 75
Russian 470 210 100 130
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 360 40 265 50
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 5
Serbian 500 65 165 245
Serbo-Croatian 400 55 135 200
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 0 15 0
Slovak 40 30 10 10
Slovenian 10 5 0 0
Somali 155 35 65 40
Spanish 3,860 865 1,740 995
Swahili 260 55 175 20
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 175 160 5 10
Taiwanese 10 0 0 0
Tamil 35 25 5 10
Telugu 10 5 0 0
Thai 40 25 10 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 20 5 5
Turkish 95 70 15 5
Ukrainian 90 55 15 20
Urdu 100 80 10 5
Vietnamese 420 130 130 100
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 460 75 295 60
Multiple responses 6,980 1,725 3,560 1,685
English and French 4,410 1,065 1,875 1,475
English and non-official language 580 570 5 0
French and non-official language 1,595 15 1,580 0
English, French and non-official language 385 70 100 210
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 263,255 37,710 216,755 7,320
Single responses 253,855 35,735 211,555 5,100
English 35,180 29,525 5,655 0
French 205,710 3,415 202,295 0
Non-official languages 12,960 2,800 3,600 5,100
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 50 30 10 15
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 45 25 5 15
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 0 5 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 12,760 2,755 3,525 5,040
African languages, n.i.e. 30 0 5 20
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 20 10 0 10
Amharic 30 15 5 10
Arabic 3,270 625 780 1,495
Armenian 25 0 0 20
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 5 0 10
Bengali 50 35 0 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 50 0 30 10
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 110 15 55 35
Bulgarian 135 30 25 75
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 30 5 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 695 380 80 140
Creoles 245 5 135 75
Croatian 130 20 30 70
Czech 20 10 0 5
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 25 15 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 55 25 0 30
Greek 25 10 0 10
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 0 5 5
Hindi 10 10 0 5
Hungarian 40 10 0 30
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 55 15 15 25
Japanese 40 15 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 105 15 25 50
Korean 55 35 5 15
Kurdish 40 20 5 20
Lao 70 15 25 25
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 30 0 15 10
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 5
Malay 10 5 0 5
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 330 180 45 55
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 0 15 25
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 65 0 35 20
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 20 5 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 280 135 25 70
Polish 130 65 10 55
Portuguese 1,125 110 435 365
Romanian 595 50 140 370
Rundi (Kirundi) 115 5 40 70
Russian 325 95 65 125
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 80 5 30 45
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 10
Serbian 450 45 130 245
Serbo-Croatian 320 35 85 190
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 0 10 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Slovak 10 0 0 10
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 90 15 25 40
Spanish 2,665 380 1,085 945
Swahili 85 10 40 15
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 5
Taiwanese 5 0 0 5
Tamil 15 10 0 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 5 0 5
Turkish 40 35 0 5
Ukrainian 40 20 5 15
Urdu 55 40 0 5
Vietnamese 280 85 35 105
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 150 15 65 45
Multiple responses 9,400 1,975 5,200 2,220
English and French 4,835 815 2,405 1,620
English and non-official language 1,100 1,070 30 0
French and non-official language 2,530 15 2,515 0
English, French and non-official language 930 80 250 605
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 263,255 37,715 216,755 7,325
None 203,025 24,350 173,355 4,000
Single responses 57,665 12,840 42,290 2,395
English 35,085 3,320 31,135 595
French 14,360 6,975 5,780 1,530
Non-official languages 8,225 2,545 5,380 275
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 30 25 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 10 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 7,810 2,455 5,075 255
African languages, n.i.e. 60 5 55 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 15 0 0
Albanian 10 5 5 5
Amharic 25 15 5 0
Arabic 1,645 490 1,090 60
Armenian 5 0 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 95 10 85 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 25 0 25 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 15 15 5
Bulgarian 25 20 10 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 50 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 70 25 0
Creoles 615 20 585 5
Croatian 30 10 20 5
Czech 20 10 10 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 45 30 15 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0
Flemish 5 5 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 170 90 75 15
Greek 65 45 15 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 5 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 195 100 85 5
Japanese 50 15 30 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 15 40 0
Korean 20 15 5 5
Kurdish 10 10 5 0
Lao 25 5 15 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 150 5 145 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 10 10 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 80 55 20 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 210 10 200 0
Norwegian 10 0 5 0
Oromo 70 0 65 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 25 5 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 120 80 30 5
Polish 110 65 40 5
Portuguese 775 175 575 25
Romanian 125 30 75 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 210 5 195 0
Russian 175 80 60 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 175 20 150 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Serbian 60 25 35 0
Serbo-Croatian 45 10 40 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 50 10 35 0
Spanish 1,360 400 925 40
Swahili 180 30 145 5
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 75 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 10 5 0
Turkish 35 25 5 0
Ukrainian 30 25 5 5
Urdu 40 35 0 0
Vietnamese 95 40 55 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 380 60 300 20
Multiple responses 2,570 525 1,105 925
English and French 1,035 45 80 905
English and non-official language 1,010 45 960 5
French and non-official language 505 435 65 5
English, French and non-official language 20 0 0 20
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 263,255 37,715 216,755 7,320
English 37,715 37,715 0 0
French 216,755 0 216,755 0
English and French 7,320 0 0 7,320
Neither English nor French 1,465 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 41,375 37,715 0 3,660
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 15.7 100.0 0.0 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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