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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 WoodstockFootnote 2
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 3 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 37,285 36,680 440 50
0 to 4 years 2,110 2,080 10 5
5 to 9 years 2,125 2,105 10 5
10 to 14 years 2,245 2,230 10 5
15 to 19 years 2,395 2,370 20 5
20 to 24 years 2,280 2,260 15 5
25 to 29 years 2,505 2,470 25 0
30 to 34 years 2,390 2,370 20 5
35 to 39 years 2,420 2,385 30 5
40 to 44 years 2,385 2,350 30 0
45 to 49 years 2,940 2,900 35 5
50 to 54 years 2,815 2,770 40 0
55 to 59 years 2,400 2,345 45 10
60 to 64 years 2,240 2,170 50 0
65 to 69 years 1,650 1,615 25 5
70 to 74 years 1,440 1,405 25 0
75 to 79 years 1,170 1,125 25 0
80 to 84 years 980 945 20 0
85 years and over 795 780 10 0
Median ageFootnote 4 40.3 40.1 52.3 29.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 30,800 30,260 405 35
Married or living with a common-law partner 18,095 17,750 270 20
Married (and not separated) 14,745 14,460 210 15
Living common law 3,350 3,295 55 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 12,705 12,510 140 15
Single (never legally married) 7,305 7,230 55 10
Separated 1,235 1,225 10 0
Divorced 2,075 2,025 45 5
Widowed 2,095 2,035 30 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 37,285 36,680 440 50
English only 35,240 35,240 0 0
French only 20 0 20 0
English and French 1,910 1,440 420 50
Neither English nor French 115 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 37,285 36,680 440 55
Single responses 37,010 36,425 430 40
English 33,530 33,535 5 0
French 470 50 425 0
Non-official languages 3,005 2,845 5 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 0 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 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 8 2,975 2,815 5 40
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 65 60 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 20 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 10 5 0 0
Cantonese 25 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 40 0 5
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 15 10 0 0
Dutch 530 525 0 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 5
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 265 260 0 0
Greek 75 70 0 0
Gujarati 45 35 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 20 0 0
Hungarian 155 150 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 190 190 0 5
Japanese 50 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 30 30 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 5
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 30 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 50 55 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 485 460 5 10
Portuguese 285 255 0 0
Romanian 30 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 30 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 10 15 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 80 65 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 65 60 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 15 0 0
Ukrainian 55 50 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 55 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 30 25 0 0
Multiple responses 280 255 10 15
English and French 75 50 5 15
English and non-official language 190 195 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 37,285 36,680 440 50
Single responses 36,855 36,275 425 35
English 35,750 35,455 300 0
French 140 10 130 0
Non-official languages 965 810 0 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 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 12 960 810 0 40
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 25 20 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 40 40 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 25 25 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 40 35 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 15 0 0
Hungarian 45 40 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 50 45 0 5
Japanese 35 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 25 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 205 185 0 10
Portuguese 100 70 0 0
Romanian 15 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 30 15 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 15 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 5
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 40 25 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 435 405 15 15
English and French 30 10 10 10
English and non-official language 385 385 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 37,285 36,680 440 55
None 35,335 34,955 245 25
Single responses 1,920 1,700 190 25
English 515 420 65 20
French 395 270 125 0
Non-official languages 1,015 1,005 0 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 0 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 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 995 985 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 30 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 15 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 170 170 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 90 90 0 0
Greek 25 30 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 45 50 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 70 70 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 10 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 5 0 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) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 140 140 0 0
Portuguese 95 95 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 15 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 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 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 50 50 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 15 20 0 0
Multiple responses 30 25 5 5
English and French 0 0 0 5
English and non-official language 5 0 0 0
French and non-official language 20 20 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 37,285 36,680 440 55
English 36,680 36,680 0 0
French 440 0 440 0
English and French 50 0 0 55
Neither English nor French 115 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 465 0 440 30
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 1.2 0.0 100.0 54.5

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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

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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Footnote 3

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

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Footnote 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 9

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 10

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 11

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 14

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 18

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 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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Footnote 20

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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