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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 Orillia
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 39,860 39,290 455 25
0 to 4 years 1,895 1,875 10 5
5 to 9 years 1,980 1,965 5 0
10 to 14 years 2,090 2,080 5 0
15 to 19 years 2,540 2,535 10 0
20 to 24 years 2,550 2,530 15 0
25 to 29 years 2,215 2,205 15 0
30 to 34 years 2,025 2,000 25 0
35 to 39 years 2,035 2,005 25 5
40 to 44 years 2,370 2,340 30 0
45 to 49 years 3,110 3,055 45 0
50 to 54 years 3,305 3,255 40 0
55 to 59 years 2,975 2,915 55 0
60 to 64 years 2,900 2,835 55 0
65 to 69 years 2,290 2,250 30 0
70 to 74 years 1,920 1,880 30 0
75 to 79 years 1,565 1,535 10 0
80 to 84 years 1,160 1,120 20 0
85 years and over 940 910 20 0
Median ageFootnote 3 45.4 45.2 55.0 46.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 33,900 33,365 430 20
Married or living with a common-law partner 19,140 18,800 275 10
Married (and not separated) 15,395 15,125 215 10
Living common law 3,740 3,680 65 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 14,765 14,565 155 10
Single (never legally married) 8,480 8,415 60 5
Separated 1,295 1,275 15 0
Divorced 2,515 2,470 40 0
Widowed 2,470 2,405 45 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 39,860 39,285 450 25
English only 37,940 37,940 0 0
French only 10 0 10 0
English and French 1,810 1,345 440 30
Neither English nor French 100 5 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 39,860 39,285 455 25
Single responses 39,590 39,030 445 20
English 36,420 36,420 5 0
French 510 70 440 0
Non-official languages 2,655 2,535 5 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 110 110 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 10 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 105 105 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 2,515 2,395 5 15
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 15 15 0 0
Armenian 15 15 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 55 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 165 150 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 5
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 0
Danish 15 10 0 0
Dutch 215 215 0 0
Estonian 20 20 0 0
Finnish 45 45 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 395 390 0 5
Greek 45 40 0 0
Gujarati 25 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0
Hungarian 75 70 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 290 270 0 0
Japanese 10 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 55 50 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 20 15 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 50 50 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 60 55 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 20 0 0
Polish 145 140 0 0
Portuguese 65 65 0 0
Romanian 25 20 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 50 50 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 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. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 10 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 85 80 5 5
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 190 190 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 55 55 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 30 25 0 0
Multiple responses 275 255 10 10
English and French 75 65 0 5
English and non-official language 175 175 0 0
French and non-official language 15 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 39,860 39,285 455 30
Single responses 39,480 38,935 435 15
English 38,455 38,130 330 0
French 105 10 100 0
Non-official languages 915 800 5 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 25 25 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 25 20 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 885 775 0 20
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 10 5 0 0
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 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 55 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 110 95 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 5 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 60 55 0 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 25 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 105 85 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 40 40 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 35 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 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 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 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. 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 35 30 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 70 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 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 10 10 0 0
Urdu 10 15 0 0
Vietnamese 20 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 380 350 25 10
English and French 45 15 20 5
English and non-official language 330 330 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 39,860 39,290 455 30
None 38,115 37,755 255 15
Single responses 1,710 1,505 195 10
English 425 345 65 10
French 315 195 120 0
Non-official languages 965 955 5 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 100 100 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 95 95 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 845 835 5 0
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 5 5 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 25 25 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 40 5 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 75 80 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 150 150 0 0
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 100 95 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 15 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 15 0 0
Marathi 0 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) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 45 40 0 0
Portuguese 20 20 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 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. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 45 45 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 70 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 35 30 5 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 5 5 0 0
French and non-official language 30 30 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 39,860 39,285 455 25
English 39,290 39,285 0 0
French 455 0 455 0
English and French 25 0 0 25
Neither English nor French 95 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 465 0 455 15
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.2 0.0 100.0 60.0

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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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Footnote 14

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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