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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 Oshawa
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 353,460 344,590 6,505 825
0 to 4 years 20,965 20,485 185 55
5 to 9 years 21,855 21,530 225 85
10 to 14 years 23,545 23,175 250 110
15 to 19 years 26,745 26,360 275 90
20 to 24 years 22,755 22,465 220 60
25 to 29 years 20,545 20,205 280 40
30 to 34 years 22,065 21,580 415 50
35 to 39 years 24,400 23,795 495 70
40 to 44 years 26,505 25,815 570 70
45 to 49 years 31,765 30,895 755 50
50 to 54 years 28,285 27,465 695 45
55 to 59 years 22,375 21,710 545 35
60 to 64 years 18,920 18,280 495 30
65 to 69 years 13,640 13,100 380 15
70 to 74 years 10,175 9,720 265 10
75 to 79 years 8,200 7,815 225 10
80 to 84 years 6,020 5,720 155 5
85 years and over 4,710 4,480 80 5
Median ageFootnote 3 38.8 38.5 47.4 26.9
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 287,100 279,400 5,850 575
Married or living with a common-law partner 169,285 164,270 3,940 325
Married (and not separated) 143,890 139,555 3,290 305
Living common law 25,395 24,715 645 20
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 117,815 115,130 1,915 250
Single (never legally married) 77,430 76,140 1,020 205
Separated 9,915 9,680 205 10
Divorced 16,580 16,145 365 20
Widowed 13,885 13,170 325 15
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 353,460 344,590 6,505 830
English only 326,965 326,965 0 0
French only 245 0 250 0
English and French 24,640 17,560 6,250 825
Neither English nor French 1,605 70 5 5
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 353,460 344,590 6,505 825
Single responses 349,420 340,940 6,350 600
English 306,685 306,675 5 0
French 6,735 500 6,240 0
Non-official languages 36,000 33,765 105 595
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 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 0 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 35,630 33,415 105 590
African languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Afrikaans 70 70 0 0
Akan (Twi) 60 60 0 0
Albanian 45 40 0 0
Amharic 40 35 0 0
Arabic 1,200 1,070 20 70
Armenian 105 90 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 25 5 0
Bengali 240 230 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 55 50 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 65 50 0 10
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 735 630 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,105 955 0 15
Creoles 90 60 10 10
Croatian 385 375 0 0
Czech 175 175 0 0
Danish 100 100 0 0
Dutch 1,840 1,830 0 5
Estonian 105 105 0 0
Finnish 165 165 0 0
Flemish 40 45 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0
German 2,285 2,275 0 10
Greek 1,065 1,030 0 5
Gujarati 605 555 0 5
Hakka 10 10 0 0
Hebrew 20 20 0 0
Hindi 365 350 0 5
Hungarian 955 920 5 10
Ilocano 55 50 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5
Italian 3,740 3,545 15 25
Japanese 85 85 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 35 0 0
Korean 410 365 0 5
Kurdish 30 30 0 0
Lao 40 40 0 0
Latvian 75 70 0 5
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 60 60 0 0
Macedonian 595 565 0 5
Malay 40 35 0 0
Malayalam 80 75 0 5
Maltese 285 280 0 0
Mandarin 650 570 0 10
Marathi 45 45 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 80 75 0 5
Norwegian 25 25 0 0
Oromo 10 15 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 505 470 0 5
Pashto 65 60 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 1,175 1,035 5 40
Polish 3,405 3,240 0 60
Portuguese 1,895 1,765 5 25
Romanian 530 435 5 70
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 5 5
Russian 570 510 0 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 50 40 0 0
Serbian 350 315 0 15
Serbo-Croatian 60 50 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 50 25 0 0
Sindhi 75 75 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 115 120 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 45 45 0 0
Slovak 185 175 0 5
Slovenian 200 195 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0
Spanish 2,315 2,105 15 65
Swahili 75 70 0 0
Swedish 70 65 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,555 1,540 0 5
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 665 630 0 10
Telugu 65 65 0 0
Thai 55 50 0 5
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 25 25 0 0
Turkish 120 100 0 5
Ukrainian 1,295 1,240 5 20
Urdu 1,350 1,270 0 15
Vietnamese 340 290 0 5
Yiddish 10 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 355 335 0 10
Multiple responses 4,035 3,650 155 225
English and French 920 690 45 185
English and non-official language 2,810 2,815 5 0
French and non-official language 200 100 105 0
English, French and non-official language 95 55 5 45
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 353,455 344,595 6,505 825
Single responses 347,220 339,020 6,130 530
English 331,535 327,765 3,765 0
French 2,470 140 2,330 0
Non-official languages 13,210 11,110 35 525
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 13,100 11,015 35 520
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0
Albanian 20 15 0 0
Amharic 15 15 0 0
Arabic 480 380 5 45
Armenian 35 25 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 120 110 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 35 30 0 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 415 305 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 675 540 0 15
Creoles 35 20 5 10
Croatian 95 90 0 0
Czech 35 35 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 85 80 0 5
Estonian 10 15 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 210 200 0 5
Greek 260 235 0 5
Gujarati 305 255 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 135 125 0 0
Hungarian 285 250 0 5
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 965 785 5 20
Japanese 30 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0
Korean 280 235 0 5
Kurdish 25 25 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 185 165 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 5
Maltese 45 45 0 5
Mandarin 475 390 0 5
Marathi 10 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 235 200 0 10
Pashto 40 35 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 740 605 0 30
Polish 1,400 1,240 5 50
Portuguese 630 515 0 25
Romanian 235 140 0 70
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 265 205 0 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Serbian 195 155 0 15
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 80 50 5 0
Sindhi 30 30 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 55 40 0 5
Slovenian 35 35 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 1,045 845 5 60
Swahili 20 20 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 480 465 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 430 385 0 15
Telugu 40 35 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 60 45 0 5
Ukrainian 350 295 5 20
Urdu 880 805 0 10
Vietnamese 240 190 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 110 100 0 5
Multiple responses 6,240 5,570 370 300
English and French 660 145 310 205
English and non-official language 5,395 5,380 10 0
French and non-official language 45 10 35 0
English, French and non-official language 145 35 15 90
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 353,455 344,595 6,505 830
None 327,490 322,210 3,425 430
Single responses 25,415 21,945 3,030 330
English 7,265 5,655 1,250 285
French 4,395 2,745 1,635 5
Non-official languages 13,765 13,540 140 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 15 15 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 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 13,510 13,300 140 45
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Afrikaans 45 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 40 40 0 0
Albanian 40 40 0 0
Amharic 15 15 0 0
Arabic 475 450 15 10
Armenian 65 60 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 10 5 0
Bengali 80 80 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 250 250 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 280 270 5 5
Creoles 110 90 15 0
Croatian 185 180 0 0
Czech 70 70 0 0
Danish 35 40 0 0
Dutch 600 595 0 0
Estonian 40 45 0 0
Finnish 45 50 5 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 770 765 0 5
Greek 650 650 0 0
Gujarati 205 205 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 15 10 5 5
Hindi 275 275 0 0
Hungarian 285 285 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 1,560 1,540 15 5
Japanese 60 55 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 15 0 0
Korean 110 110 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 25 0 25 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 240 240 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0
Maltese 120 120 0 0
Mandarin 180 175 0 0
Marathi 10 15 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 85 80 10 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 190 190 0 0
Pashto 25 20 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 265 260 0 0
Polish 1,020 1,020 0 0
Portuguese 815 810 5 0
Romanian 180 175 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 5
Russian 190 185 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 0
Serbian 115 115 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0
Sindhi 50 45 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 65 65 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slovak 55 50 5 0
Slovenian 60 55 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 1,205 1,185 15 0
Swahili 60 55 5 0
Swedish 40 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 680 680 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 215 210 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 45 45 0 0
Ukrainian 425 415 0 0
Urdu 390 390 0 5
Vietnamese 65 65 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 235 230 0 0
Multiple responses 550 435 50 65
English and French 75 15 0 55
English and non-official language 125 100 20 5
French and non-official language 345 325 25 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 353,460 344,590 6,505 825
English 344,595 344,595 0 0
French 6,505 0 6,505 0
English and French 825 0 0 825
Neither English nor French 1,535 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 6,915 0 6,505 415
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 2.0 0.0 100.0 50.3

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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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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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