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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 Norfolk
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 62,375 61,065 560 60
0 to 4 years 2,920 2,790 5 5
5 to 9 years 3,135 3,090 10 0
10 to 14 years 3,615 3,580 10 0
15 to 19 years 4,170 4,125 10 5
20 to 24 years 3,605 3,575 10 5
25 to 29 years 3,055 3,020 15 0
30 to 34 years 2,935 2,855 25 5
35 to 39 years 3,210 3,120 25 0
40 to 44 years 3,885 3,775 45 0
45 to 49 years 4,910 4,805 55 0
50 to 54 years 5,355 5,265 45 5
55 to 59 years 5,240 5,130 60 5
60 to 64 years 4,780 4,660 75 0
65 to 69 years 3,760 3,655 80 5
70 to 74 years 2,875 2,790 45 10
75 to 79 years 2,225 2,175 30 5
80 to 84 years 1,595 1,565 10 5
85 years and over 1,110 1,080 10 5
Median ageFootnote 3 45.8 45.7 57.3 58.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 52,705 51,600 540 50
Married or living with a common-law partner 33,535 32,665 405 35
Married (and not separated) 28,895 28,100 345 35
Living common law 4,640 4,570 60 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 19,170 18,935 135 15
Single (never legally married) 11,435 11,345 55 10
Separated 1,510 1,490 15 5
Divorced 2,840 2,800 30 0
Widowed 3,385 3,300 40 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 62,375 61,065 560 60
English only 59,640 59,640 0 0
French only 10 0 15 0
English and French 1,970 1,360 550 60
Neither English nor French 750 65 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 62,375 61,065 565 60
Single responses 61,980 60,690 555 50
English 53,765 53,765 0 0
French 730 180 550 0
Non-official languages 7,485 6,745 10 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 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 7 7,440 6,700 10 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 35 30 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 45 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 40 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 55 55 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 5
Danish 15 20 0 0
Dutch 680 675 0 10
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 440 425 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 3,410 3,125 5 5
Greek 35 30 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 485 465 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 135 135 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 45 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 15 0 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 35 35 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 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) 35 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 265 255 5 0
Portuguese 680 595 0 0
Romanian 20 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 50 50 0 5
Slovenian 10 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 375 130 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 50 45 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 205 205 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 20 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 45 40 0 0
Multiple responses 395 380 5 10
English and French 55 40 0 10
English and non-official language 305 305 0 0
French and non-official language 35 30 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 62,370 61,065 560 60
Single responses 61,660 60,395 535 45
English 58,380 57,930 450 0
French 110 30 80 0
Non-official languages 3,170 2,435 5 50
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 3,165 2,425 5 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 0
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 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 25 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 10 15 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 5
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 75 65 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 40 30 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,905 1,615 5 5
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 100 80 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 25 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 30 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 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) 25 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 65 55 0 0
Portuguese 300 220 0 5
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 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 320 75 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 5 5 0 0
Multiple responses 715 675 30 15
English and French 45 10 20 10
English and non-official language 655 655 0 0
French and non-official language 10 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 62,375 61,065 565 60
None 58,605 57,555 355 35
Single responses 3,705 3,445 210 20
English 1,285 1,185 50 20
French 345 200 145 0
Non-official languages 2,075 2,060 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 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 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 2,045 2,035 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 0
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 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 210 210 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 120 120 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 815 815 0 0
Greek 10 10 5 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 135 140 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 35 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 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) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 5 0 0
Polish 85 80 0 0
Portuguese 290 285 5 0
Romanian 5 5 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 20 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 70 70 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 15 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 25 20 0 0
Multiple responses 65 65 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 50 55 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 62,370 61,065 560 60
English 61,065 61,065 0 0
French 560 0 565 0
English and French 60 0 0 60
Neither English nor French 685 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 590 0 560 30
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 0.9 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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