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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 Kingston
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 2 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 155,405 149,255 5,030 570
0 to 4 years 7,865 7,500 215 50
5 to 9 years 7,730 7,475 205 35
10 to 14 years 8,275 7,995 230 45
15 to 19 years 10,450 10,105 285 50
20 to 24 years 12,455 12,010 385 55
25 to 29 years 10,425 10,040 325 55
30 to 34 years 9,360 8,970 350 30
35 to 39 years 8,970 8,600 325 35
40 to 44 years 10,055 9,560 435 45
45 to 49 years 12,350 11,780 495 35
50 to 54 years 11,955 11,495 400 20
55 to 59 years 10,855 10,495 310 30
60 to 64 years 10,145 9,805 300 15
65 to 69 years 7,675 7,365 250 20
70 to 74 years 5,870 5,595 195 25
75 to 79 years 4,845 4,610 150 10
80 to 84 years 3,435 3,265 100 10
85 years and over 2,700 2,590 70 0
Median ageFootnote 3 41.1 41.0 42.2 29.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 131,535 126,275 4,375 440
Married or living with a common-law partner 75,880 72,565 2,800 235
Married (and not separated) 62,415 59,695 2,240 215
Living common law 13,460 12,875 565 20
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 55,660 53,710 1,575 205
Single (never legally married) 36,265 35,070 1,015 160
Separated 4,195 4,055 130 5
Divorced 8,055 7,765 250 25
Widowed 7,140 6,820 185 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 155,405 149,250 5,025 575
English only 135,650 135,645 0 0
French only 320 0 315 0
English and French 18,860 13,580 4,705 575
Neither English nor French 580 25 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 155,405 149,250 5,030 575
Single responses 153,800 147,885 4,940 425
English 135,720 135,710 10 0
French 5,095 260 4,835 0
Non-official languages 12,990 11,915 95 420
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 40 35 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 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 7 12,780 11,725 95 420
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 25 25 0 0
Amharic 15 10 0 0
Arabic 630 520 20 50
Armenian 15 15 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5
Bengali 165 160 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 35 35 0 5
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 335 310 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 860 780 0 10
Creoles 25 15 5 10
Croatian 35 35 0 0
Czech 140 135 5 5
Danish 130 130 0 0
Dutch 855 825 0 25
Estonian 35 30 0 0
Finnish 65 65 0 0
Flemish 15 15 5 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 1,175 1,140 10 25
Greek 420 380 0 15
Gujarati 135 115 0 10
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 25 25 0 0
Hindi 165 165 0 0
Hungarian 180 170 0 0
Ilocano 30 30 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 680 650 5 10
Japanese 100 90 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 60 0 0
Korean 440 395 0 5
Kurdish 20 20 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 25 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 25 0 0
Macedonian 25 25 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 0
Malayalam 60 60 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 395 360 5 10
Marathi 20 20 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 155 150 0 0
Pashto 30 25 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 340 305 0 20
Polish 535 500 0 25
Portuguese 1,625 1,435 5 20
Romanian 80 55 5 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 245 220 0 15
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 45 40 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Sindhi 25 20 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0
Spanish 770 645 15 80
Swahili 25 15 5 0
Swedish 40 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 315 315 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 55 60 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 85 75 0 10
Ukrainian 150 140 0 5
Urdu 325 310 0 10
Vietnamese 145 130 0 5
Yiddish 20 20 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 175 155 0 5
Multiple responses 1,605 1,370 90 150
English and French 565 415 20 130
English and non-official language 890 885 0 0
French and non-official language 105 30 70 0
English, French and non-official language 50 30 0 15
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 155,405 149,250 5,030 570
Single responses 153,195 147,465 4,815 370
English 145,810 143,385 2,425 0
French 2,450 90 2,360 0
Non-official languages 4,940 3,990 25 370
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 10 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 4,885 3,945 25 370
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 10 5 0 0
Arabic 320 235 5 45
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5
Bengali 100 90 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 160 135 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 545 455 0 10
Creoles 10 0 0 10
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 30 25 0 5
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 65 40 0 20
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 120 95 0 20
Greek 160 130 0 10
Gujarati 95 75 0 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 65 65 0 0
Hungarian 40 35 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 175 145 0 15
Japanese 40 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 20 0 0
Korean 305 265 0 10
Kurdish 10 15 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 20 15 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 255 220 0 5
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 60 60 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 210 180 0 20
Polish 195 160 0 20
Portuguese 615 435 0 20
Romanian 25 10 0 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 135 110 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Sindhi 25 15 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 15 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 345 230 10 75
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 110 110 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 45 35 0 10
Ukrainian 40 30 0 5
Urdu 175 165 0 5
Vietnamese 70 55 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 5
Other languagesFootnote 12 50 40 0 5
Multiple responses 2,210 1,790 215 205
English and French 410 75 175 155
English and non-official language 1,680 1,675 5 0
French and non-official language 35 10 25 0
English, French and non-official language 85 25 15 45
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 155,405 149,250 5,030 570
None 143,510 140,095 2,550 345
Single responses 11,555 8,935 2,400 190
English 3,490 2,110 1,190 160
French 3,010 1,885 1,115 10
Non-official languages 5,050 4,940 90 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 30 30 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 4,860 4,755 85 20
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 235 225 10 5
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 45 45 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 115 115 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 205 210 0 0
Creoles 20 10 10 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 55 55 0 0
Danish 45 50 0 0
Dutch 240 240 0 0
Estonian 15 10 0 0
Finnish 30 25 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 495 490 5 5
Greek 200 200 0 5
Gujarati 35 35 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 20 0 0
Hindi 135 140 0 0
Hungarian 55 50 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 310 300 10 0
Japanese 60 65 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 20 0 0
Korean 90 90 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 30 25 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 125 120 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 65 65 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 95 95 0 0
Polish 175 170 0 0
Portuguese 685 680 5 0
Romanian 20 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 85 80 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 30 25 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 440 415 15 5
Swahili 20 5 10 5
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 130 135 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 25 20 0 0
Ukrainian 25 30 0 0
Urdu 115 115 0 0
Vietnamese 45 40 0 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 160 160 5 0
Multiple responses 340 220 80 35
English and French 50 5 10 35
English and non-official language 75 35 40 0
French and non-official language 225 190 35 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 155,405 149,250 5,025 570
English 149,250 149,250 0 0
French 5,030 0 5,030 0
English and French 575 0 0 570
Neither English nor French 550 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 5,315 0 5,030 285
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 3.4 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 13

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 17

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 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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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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011058.

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