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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 North Bay
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 63,100 53,685 9,175 165
0 to 4 years 3,035 2,780 225 20
5 to 9 years 3,105 2,815 270 20
10 to 14 years 3,425 3,050 355 20
15 to 19 years 4,195 3,740 440 20
20 to 24 years 4,655 4,195 450 10
25 to 29 years 4,015 3,570 430 10
30 to 34 years 3,465 2,965 485 10
35 to 39 years 3,630 3,080 540 0
40 to 44 years 3,965 3,415 535 5
45 to 49 years 5,305 4,460 835 5
50 to 54 years 5,355 4,415 925 10
55 to 59 years 4,520 3,730 775 5
60 to 64 years 4,130 3,350 760 5
65 to 69 years 3,130 2,480 645 5
70 to 74 years 2,590 2,025 550 5
75 to 79 years 2,090 1,615 465 0
80 to 84 years 1,455 1,145 295 0
85 years and over 1,045 840 195 0
Median ageFootnote 3 42.5 40.9 50.1 20.9
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 53,535 45,035 8,325 105
Married or living with a common-law partner 30,815 25,515 5,225 40
Married (and not separated) 24,815 20,445 4,305 30
Living common law 6,000 5,070 920 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 22,720 19,520 3,100 65
Single (never legally married) 14,130 12,485 1,600 45
Separated 2,050 1,715 330 0
Divorced 3,195 2,705 475 10
Widowed 3,340 2,620 695 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 63,100 53,685 9,175 165
English only 45,990 45,990 0 0
French only 255 0 255 0
English and French 16,770 7,690 8,920 165
Neither English nor French 85 5 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 63,100 53,680 9,175 165
Single responses 62,190 52,950 9,135 30
English 50,275 50,270 10 0
French 9,475 355 9,120 0
Non-official languages 2,440 2,325 10 35
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 155 145 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 115 110 0 5
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 35 30 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 2,245 2,135 5 25
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 15 0 5
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 20 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 135 115 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0
Czech 45 45 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 105 110 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 60 60 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 345 340 0 5
Greek 45 45 0 0
Gujarati 30 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 35 35 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 495 475 5 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 10 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 145 145 0 5
Portuguese 65 60 0 0
Romanian 15 20 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 50 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 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 100 90 5 5
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 45 45 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 15 0 0
Telugu 10 15 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 60 0 0
Urdu 30 25 0 5
Vietnamese 20 15 0 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 45 45 0 0
Multiple responses 905 730 45 135
English and French 710 545 30 135
English and non-official language 170 170 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 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 63,100 53,680 9,175 170
Single responses 62,205 53,285 8,815 30
English 57,720 52,585 5,135 0
French 3,780 105 3,675 0
Non-official languages 705 595 0 30
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 50 45 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 45 45 0 5
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 11 635 540 5 25
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 90 60 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 40 45 0 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 130 110 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 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) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 10 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 10 0 0
Polish 30 25 0 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 35 25 0 5
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 10 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 10 15 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 5 10 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 15 10 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 20 15 0 0
Multiple responses 890 395 360 135
English and French 550 75 350 130
English and non-official language 320 320 5 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 5 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 63,100 53,685 9,175 165
None 54,975 50,170 4,585 150
Single responses 8,055 3,455 4,575 15
English 2,450 350 2,080 15
French 4,660 2,185 2,475 0
Non-official languages 945 920 20 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 95 95 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 80 75 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 15 15 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 825 805 20 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 25 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 20 20 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 130 125 0 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 210 205 5 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 45 40 0 0
Portuguese 30 25 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 15 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. 15 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Spanish 70 60 10 0
Swahili 0 0 5 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 20 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 10 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 70 60 10 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 15 5 5 0
French and non-official language 60 50 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 63,100 53,680 9,175 165
English 53,685 53,685 0 0
French 9,180 0 9,175 0
English and French 165 0 0 170
Neither English nor French 75 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 9,255 0 9,175 85
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 14.7 0.0 100.0 51.5

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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

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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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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