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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 Saskatoon
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 256,905 250,995 3,330 570
0 to 4 years 16,600 16,005 80 25
5 to 9 years 14,885 14,635 75 95
10 to 14 years 15,115 14,880 95 90
15 to 19 years 17,465 17,250 115 55
20 to 24 years 23,220 22,975 165 35
25 to 29 years 22,005 21,670 210 60
30 to 34 years 18,975 18,650 200 40
35 to 39 years 16,700 16,355 180 30
40 to 44 years 16,155 15,770 205 25
45 to 49 years 18,865 18,425 255 40
50 to 54 years 18,915 18,430 345 25
55 to 59 years 16,345 15,865 340 5
60 to 64 years 12,455 12,045 280 15
65 to 69 years 8,380 8,090 190 10
70 to 74 years 6,825 6,575 175 5
75 to 79 years 5,840 5,550 185 5
80 to 84 years 4,380 4,205 115 0
85 years and over 3,795 3,620 115 5
Median ageFootnote 3 35.1 34.8 51.2 21.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 210,300 205,475 3,080 350
Married or living with a common-law partner 118,830 115,675 1,990 190
Married (and not separated) 101,715 98,850 1,740 170
Living common law 17,120 16,825 250 15
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 91,465 89,800 1,090 170
Single (never legally married) 65,605 64,715 595 140
Separated 4,580 4,485 60 5
Divorced 11,840 11,590 195 10
Widowed 9,445 9,015 230 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 256,900 250,995 3,330 570
English only 239,330 239,330 0 0
French only 120 0 125 0
English and French 15,350 11,580 3,200 570
Neither English nor French 2,105 90 10 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 256,905 250,995 3,335 570
Single responses 253,065 247,345 3,215 495
English 212,580 212,565 15 0
French 3,755 610 3,140 0
Non-official languages 36,735 34,170 65 495
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 1,510 1,500 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,165 1,160 5 5
Dene 165 165 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 170 165 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 34,725 32,220 60 485
African languages, n.i.e. 195 185 0 0
Afrikaans 165 155 0 0
Akan (Twi) 35 35 0 0
Albanian 45 40 0 0
Amharic 90 80 0 0
Arabic 1,245 985 10 60
Armenian 10 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 80 75 5 5
Bengali 860 785 0 35
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 5 0 0
Bisayan languages 215 210 0 0
Bosnian 145 130 0 0
Bulgarian 25 20 0 0
Burmese 110 90 0 0
Cantonese 865 715 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,595 2,260 5 25
Creoles 30 25 0 5
Croatian 130 125 0 0
Czech 80 85 0 0
Danish 85 85 0 0
Dutch 460 450 0 10
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 35 30 0 0
Flemish 20 20 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 5,920 5,825 0 25
Greek 180 175 0 0
Gujarati 295 280 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 10 0 0
Hindi 430 410 0 5
Hungarian 405 375 0 5
Ilocano 95 95 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 100 85 0 5
Italian 220 220 0 0
Japanese 140 135 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 60 60 0 0
Korean 360 330 0 5
Kurdish 45 40 0 0
Lao 140 125 0 5
Latvian 40 35 0 0
Lingala 10 5 5 5
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 0
Malayalam 65 65 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 790 700 0 5
Marathi 45 45 0 5
Nepali 145 120 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 105 100 0 0
Norwegian 95 95 0 0
Oromo 100 75 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 865 775 0 5
Pashto 130 120 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 600 540 0 20
Polish 535 510 0 5
Portuguese 305 285 5 5
Romanian 325 280 5 25
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 10 0 5
Russian 855 785 0 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 20 15 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 465 355 5 5
Serbian 150 145 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 85 80 0 5
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 50 35 0 0
Sindhi 50 45 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 145 140 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 155 80 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 80 70 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0
Somali 90 65 5 10
Spanish 1,450 1,325 5 45
Swahili 115 105 0 10
Swedish 40 35 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 3,840 3,750 0 20
Taiwanese 30 25 0 0
Tamil 140 145 0 0
Telugu 75 75 0 0
Thai 30 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 5 0 0
Tigrigna 180 170 0 0
Turkish 95 90 5 0
Ukrainian 3,830 3,735 0 15
Urdu 1,845 1,695 5 45
Vietnamese 680 590 0 20
Yiddish 5 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 500 450 5 5
Multiple responses 3,840 3,650 115 75
English and French 515 440 20 55
English and non-official language 2,930 2,930 5 0
French and non-official language 330 235 95 0
English, French and non-official language 65 40 5 20
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 256,905 250,995 3,330 570
Single responses 250,905 245,255 3,190 450
English 233,130 230,880 2,255 0
French 1,025 135 890 0
Non-official languages 16,750 14,250 45 455
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 350 345 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 255 255 0 5
Dene 65 65 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 30 25 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 16,210 13,755 45 445
African languages, n.i.e. 115 115 0 0
Afrikaans 85 80 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 20 15 0 5
Amharic 45 40 0 0
Arabic 850 600 5 40
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5
Bengali 705 635 0 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 85 80 0 0
Bosnian 85 75 0 5
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 90 75 0 0
Cantonese 470 325 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,805 1,480 0 20
Creoles 15 5 5 5
Croatian 35 35 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 45 35 0 10
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 20 25 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 795 700 0 25
Greek 55 45 0 0
Gujarati 170 155 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 220 200 0 0
Hungarian 130 100 0 5
Ilocano 45 40 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 65 50 0 5
Italian 30 25 0 0
Japanese 65 65 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 25 0 0
Korean 235 200 0 5
Kurdish 20 15 0 0
Lao 65 50 0 10
Latvian 25 25 0 0
Lingala 5 5 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 610 520 0 5
Marathi 20 20 0 0
Nepali 110 90 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 60 35 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 530 450 0 5
Pashto 70 60 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 380 330 0 15
Polish 140 115 0 5
Portuguese 100 80 0 5
Romanian 180 140 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 5 5 5
Russian 475 410 0 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 370 265 0 10
Serbian 120 105 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 45 40 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 65 50 0 5
Sindhi 40 30 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 80 75 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 140 55 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 55 45 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 70 50 0 15
Spanish 730 600 10 45
Swahili 65 55 5 5
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,360 2,280 0 20
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 60 60 0 0
Telugu 45 40 0 0
Thai 20 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 90 80 0 0
Turkish 65 50 5 5
Ukrainian 615 510 0 15
Urdu 1,410 1,255 0 45
Vietnamese 485 385 0 20
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 190 150 0 0
Multiple responses 6,000 5,735 145 120
English and French 275 120 90 70
English and non-official language 5,540 5,535 10 0
French and non-official language 110 70 35 0
English, French and non-official language 80 20 5 50
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 256,905 250,995 3,330 570
None 234,460 230,520 2,010 245
Single responses 21,835 19,965 1,285 275
English 7,645 6,825 485 220
French 2,430 1,665 750 15
Non-official languages 11,760 11,475 60 35
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,125 1,125 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 940 940 5 0
Dene 100 95 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 90 85 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 10,360 10,095 55 35
African languages, n.i.e. 60 50 0 0
Afrikaans 60 60 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 15 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 25 25 0 0
Arabic 455 410 10 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 45 45 5 0
Bengali 100 95 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 35 30 0 0
Bosnian 35 40 0 0
Bulgarian 5 10 0 0
Burmese 30 25 0 0
Cantonese 295 285 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 535 525 0 0
Creoles 25 20 5 0
Croatian 50 45 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 35 35 0 0
Dutch 145 140 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 15 20 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,560 1,555 0 0
Greek 130 125 0 0
Gujarati 60 60 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 275 270 0 5
Hungarian 110 110 0 0
Ilocano 40 40 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Italian 95 95 0 0
Japanese 95 95 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0
Korean 75 75 0 0
Kurdish 20 20 0 0
Lao 30 30 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 10 0 10 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 170 170 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 145 140 5 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 5
Oromo 15 15 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 320 310 0 5
Pashto 25 25 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 155 150 0 0
Polish 145 140 0 0
Portuguese 125 120 0 0
Romanian 105 90 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 5 5 5
Russian 275 250 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 15 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 110 90 0 0
Serbian 25 25 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 65 70 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 15 10 0 0
Spanish 775 765 10 0
Swahili 60 50 5 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 920 915 0 0
Taiwanese 15 10 0 0
Tamil 50 50 0 0
Telugu 35 40 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 55 55 0 0
Turkish 30 30 0 0
Ukrainian 1,335 1,330 0 5
Urdu 390 370 0 0
Vietnamese 180 170 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 270 260 0 0
Multiple responses 605 510 35 50
English and French 50 10 0 40
English and non-official language 255 210 15 15
French and non-official language 300 285 15 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 256,905 250,995 3,330 570
English 251,000 251,000 0 0
French 3,330 0 3,330 0
English and French 570 0 0 570
Neither English nor French 2,005 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 3,620 0 3,330 285
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.4 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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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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