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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 Brandon
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 52,495 50,510 710 130
0 to 4 years 3,575 3,310 25 5
5 to 9 years 3,280 3,115 40 15
10 to 14 years 3,030 2,935 25 15
15 to 19 years 3,355 3,300 20 10
20 to 24 years 4,525 4,445 45 5
25 to 29 years 4,355 4,165 75 10
30 to 34 years 3,965 3,715 55 40
35 to 39 years 3,640 3,355 55 15
40 to 44 years 3,125 2,955 40 5
45 to 49 years 3,595 3,490 55 0
50 to 54 years 3,570 3,485 60 5
55 to 59 years 3,030 2,970 50 0
60 to 64 years 2,695 2,640 50 0
65 to 69 years 1,910 1,865 35 5
70 to 74 years 1,530 1,495 30 0
75 to 79 years 1,260 1,230 25 0
80 to 84 years 1,060 1,040 20 0
85 years and over 1,000 990 10 0
Median ageFootnote 3 35.2 35.4 42.1 30.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 42,620 41,145 620 95
Married or living with a common-law partner 24,900 23,785 430 70
Married (and not separated) 20,530 19,550 360 65
Living common law 4,375 4,230 70 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 17,720 17,365 195 20
Single (never legally married) 11,740 11,525 110 20
Separated 1,095 1,050 15 0
Divorced 2,560 2,515 35 0
Widowed 2,330 2,270 35 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 52,500 50,510 710 130
English only 48,355 48,350 0 0
French only 45 0 45 0
English and French 2,860 2,065 665 125
Neither English nor French 1,245 90 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 52,500 50,510 715 130
Single responses 51,950 50,000 690 110
English 44,150 44,145 0 0
French 780 130 655 0
Non-official languages 7,020 5,725 35 110
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 215 210 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 85 85 0 0
Dene 10 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 105 100 0 0
Oji-Cree 15 15 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 6,705 5,415 35 105
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 75 70 0 5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 150 135 0 0
Arabic 85 70 5 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 965 550 0 5
Creoles 125 35 30 60
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 95 95 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 20 15 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 980 930 0 5
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 95 85 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 35 30 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 135 120 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 200 135 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 65 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 115 115 0 0
Portuguese 35 30 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 145 130 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 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 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 1,935 1,440 0 15
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 180 180 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 15 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 730 695 0 0
Urdu 45 45 0 0
Vietnamese 35 35 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 100 95 0 5
Multiple responses 550 510 20 15
English and French 85 65 5 10
English and non-official language 410 410 0 0
French and non-official language 35 20 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 15 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 52,500 50,505 710 130
Single responses 51,635 49,700 675 105
English 47,055 46,585 465 0
French 210 25 190 0
Non-official languages 4,365 3,095 20 105
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 40 35 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Dene 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 4,285 3,020 15 100
African languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Afrikaans 45 40 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 105 90 0 5
Arabic 40 25 0 10
Armenian 0 0 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 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 55 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 960 545 0 5
Creoles 85 5 15 60
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 280 235 0 0
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 75 60 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 115 100 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 185 120 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 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) 10 5 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 90 75 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 1,720 1,225 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 60 55 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 15 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 235 200 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 5
Vietnamese 20 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 40 35 0 0
Multiple responses 865 805 35 25
English and French 50 20 15 20
English and non-official language 775 770 0 0
French and non-official language 25 10 20 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 5 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 52,500 50,505 710 130
None 48,935 47,410 455 70
Single responses 3,480 3,040 255 40
English 1,520 1,280 85 25
French 480 325 150 5
Non-official languages 1,485 1,435 15 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 180 175 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 85 80 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 75 70 0 0
Oji-Cree 15 15 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,235 1,190 15 10
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 25 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 35 25 0 0
Arabic 30 30 0 0
Armenian 0 5 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 5 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. 45 45 0 0
Creoles 40 20 10 5
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 30 30 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 235 230 0 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 25 15 0 5
Hungarian 0 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 10 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 35 40 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 70 65 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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 0 0 0 0
Spanish 200 200 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 65 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 155 155 0 0
Urdu 15 20 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 70 70 0 0
Multiple responses 80 55 10 15
English and French 15 0 5 10
English and non-official language 15 10 5 0
French and non-official language 50 50 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 52,500 50,505 710 130
English 50,505 50,505 0 0
French 710 0 710 0
English and French 130 0 0 130
Neither English nor French 1,150 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 775 0 710 65
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.5 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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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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