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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 GuelphFootnote 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 140,405 136,815 1,775 395
0 to 4 years 8,190 7,900 50 15
5 to 9 years 8,150 8,040 45 45
10 to 14 years 8,430 8,320 50 55
15 to 19 years 9,355 9,210 75 50
20 to 24 years 10,370 10,235 85 30
25 to 29 years 9,695 9,560 100 10
30 to 34 years 9,235 9,015 160 20
35 to 39 years 9,610 9,390 150 30
40 to 44 years 10,090 9,845 140 30
45 to 49 years 11,320 11,025 185 20
50 to 54 years 10,735 10,410 195 30
55 to 59 years 8,980 8,675 165 20
60 to 64 years 7,725 7,455 135 15
65 to 69 years 5,670 5,445 95 15
70 to 74 years 4,280 4,085 65 10
75 to 79 years 3,555 3,390 40 5
80 to 84 years 2,830 2,710 30 0
85 years and over 2,185 2,090 5 5
Median ageFootnote 4 38.6 38.3 45.7 26.3
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 115,635 112,550 1,630 285
Married or living with a common-law partner 68,730 66,780 1,065 155
Married (and not separated) 58,395 56,680 865 145
Living common law 10,335 10,105 200 15
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 46,905 45,770 570 130
Single (never legally married) 31,445 30,920 330 110
Separated 3,370 3,290 50 0
Divorced 6,505 6,315 125 10
Widowed 5,585 5,245 65 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 140,410 136,815 1,780 395
English only 127,285 127,290 0 0
French only 50 0 55 0
English and French 11,620 9,495 1,725 395
Neither English nor French 1,450 25 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 140,405 136,815 1,780 395
Single responses 138,530 135,030 1,735 340
English 112,820 112,820 5 0
French 1,845 150 1,690 0
Non-official languages 23,865 22,065 40 345
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 5 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 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 8 23,345 21,590 40 335
African languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 5
Akan (Twi) 20 25 0 0
Albanian 60 60 0 0
Amharic 120 110 0 0
Arabic 535 500 0 15
Armenian 75 65 5 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Bengali 215 205 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 70 65 0 0
Bosnian 85 85 0 0
Bulgarian 35 35 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 770 645 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,355 1,195 0 20
Creoles 25 25 0 0
Croatian 200 190 0 5
Czech 130 130 0 0
Danish 100 95 0 5
Dutch 980 975 0 5
Estonian 30 30 0 0
Finnish 40 45 0 0
Flemish 30 30 0 5
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 1,260 1,225 0 25
Greek 220 215 0 5
Gujarati 465 415 0 5
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 35 30 0 0
Hindi 255 240 0 5
Hungarian 1,010 965 0 5
Ilocano 25 25 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 5
Italian 2,645 2,530 5 15
Japanese 75 75 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 105 85 0 5
Korean 195 170 0 0
Kurdish 35 30 0 5
Lao 160 145 0 0
Latvian 40 45 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 35 30 0 5
Macedonian 40 40 0 0
Malay 55 55 0 0
Malayalam 80 75 0 0
Maltese 70 70 0 0
Mandarin 645 585 0 10
Marathi 40 35 0 0
Nepali 30 30 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,360 1,175 0 15
Pashto 145 135 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 840 755 0 10
Polish 1,460 1,385 0 20
Portuguese 440 415 0 10
Romanian 265 225 0 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 240 215 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 10 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Serbian 515 465 0 20
Serbo-Croatian 55 55 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 30 35 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 90 90 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 80 75 0 5
Slovenian 60 60 0 0
Somali 40 35 0 0
Spanish 1,235 1,160 5 35
Swahili 50 35 15 5
Swedish 30 30 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,070 1,065 0 0
Taiwanese 30 30 0 0
Tamil 220 210 0 0
Telugu 20 25 0 0
Thai 40 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 25 0 0
Turkish 85 70 0 0
Ukrainian 250 245 0 5
Urdu 520 490 0 5
Vietnamese 1,480 1,220 5 10
Yiddish 10 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 510 465 0 5
Multiple responses 1,880 1,780 45 55
English and French 300 245 10 50
English and non-official language 1,495 1,495 0 0
French and non-official language 65 30 35 0
English, French and non-official language 20 15 5 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 140,410 136,815 1,775 395
Single responses 136,920 133,475 1,695 330
English 124,395 123,225 1,175 0
French 540 40 505 0
Non-official languages 11,985 10,220 15 325
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 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 12 11,670 9,945 20 320
African languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 5
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 35 35 0 0
Amharic 75 65 0 0
Arabic 255 220 0 10
Armenian 30 20 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 130 125 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 60 55 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 500 365 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 955 800 5 15
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 65 60 0 0
Czech 45 45 0 0
Danish 5 10 0 0
Dutch 60 60 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 10 5 0 5
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 160 135 5 15
Greek 60 55 0 0
Gujarati 315 265 0 5
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 15 0 5
Hindi 150 135 0 5
Hungarian 510 460 0 5
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Italian 780 670 0 10
Japanese 35 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 45 0 0
Korean 135 115 0 0
Kurdish 15 10 0 0
Lao 90 75 0 5
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0
Macedonian 10 15 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0
Malayalam 35 40 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0
Mandarin 495 430 0 10
Marathi 30 25 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 990 810 0 15
Pashto 110 100 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 555 465 0 10
Polish 695 625 5 15
Portuguese 115 95 0 5
Romanian 145 100 0 25
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 175 150 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 355 305 0 20
Serbo-Croatian 35 35 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 50 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 30 25 0 0
Spanish 640 560 5 40
Swahili 25 10 5 10
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 425 420 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 170 160 0 5
Telugu 15 10 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 0 0
Turkish 75 55 5 0
Ukrainian 70 60 0 0
Urdu 325 300 0 5
Vietnamese 1,195 940 0 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 310 270 0 5
Multiple responses 3,485 3,340 80 65
English and French 140 30 55 55
English and non-official language 3,290 3,285 10 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 35 10 10 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 140,405 136,815 1,775 395
None 125,090 122,745 925 170
Single responses 15,005 13,805 835 205
English 5,595 5,030 305 185
French 1,770 1,260 505 5
Non-official languages 7,640 7,510 25 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 5 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 5 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 16 7,500 7,375 25 15
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 20 15 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 35 30 0 0
Arabic 210 200 5 0
Armenian 25 30 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 80 80 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 15 20 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 205 190 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 325 315 0 0
Creoles 15 15 0 0
Croatian 80 80 0 0
Czech 50 50 0 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 265 265 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 20 15 0 0
Flemish 10 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 495 495 5 0
Greek 135 135 0 0
Gujarati 110 110 0 5
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 205 195 0 5
Hungarian 240 240 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 995 990 10 0
Japanese 45 50 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 25 0 0
Korean 45 45 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 65 55 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 35 30 5 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0
Maltese 30 30 0 0
Mandarin 170 170 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 250 250 0 0
Pashto 35 35 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 220 210 0 0
Polish 420 415 0 0
Portuguese 220 220 0 0
Romanian 90 85 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 65 65 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 105 105 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 35 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 635 630 0 0
Swahili 25 15 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 405 405 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 60 60 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0
Ukrainian 65 60 0 5
Urdu 145 150 0 0
Vietnamese 290 265 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 140 135 0 0
Multiple responses 310 265 20 20
English and French 25 5 0 15
English and non-official language 110 100 5 0
French and non-official language 170 160 15 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 140,405 136,815 1,775 395
English 136,815 136,815 0 0
French 1,775 0 1,780 0
English and French 395 0 0 390
Neither English nor French 1,420 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 1,975 0 1,775 200
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 1.4 0.0 100.0 50.6

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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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