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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 Kelowna
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 177,615 174,020 2,710 260
0 to 4 years 8,300 8,150 30 15
5 to 9 years 8,515 8,435 45 15
10 to 14 years 9,520 9,440 55 20
15 to 19 years 11,005 10,910 65 20
20 to 24 years 11,605 11,475 105 10
25 to 29 years 11,005 10,855 120 10
30 to 34 years 9,895 9,735 135 15
35 to 39 years 10,090 9,930 140 10
40 to 44 years 11,510 11,295 170 25
45 to 49 years 13,635 13,375 205 20
50 to 54 years 14,255 13,945 275 20
55 to 59 years 13,015 12,675 290 15
60 to 64 years 12,235 11,895 265 10
65 to 69 years 9,435 9,140 230 10
70 to 74 years 8,085 7,785 210 10
75 to 79 years 6,545 6,310 170 15
80 to 84 years 4,990 4,840 105 5
85 years and over 3,980 3,845 95 0
Median ageFootnote 3 43.9 43.6 55.0 41.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 151,280 147,995 2,580 200
Married or living with a common-law partner 91,000 88,795 1,710 140
Married (and not separated) 76,895 75,020 1,395 130
Living common law 14,105 13,775 320 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 60,280 59,195 870 65
Single (never legally married) 36,160 35,710 370 50
Separated 4,395 4,325 65 0
Divorced 10,930 10,705 210 5
Widowed 8,790 8,460 225 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 177,615 174,020 2,715 255
English only 165,365 165,370 0 0
French only 65 0 65 0
English and French 11,520 8,615 2,640 255
Neither English nor French 665 35 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 177,615 174,020 2,710 255
Single responses 175,820 172,315 2,675 205
English 152,520 152,520 5 0
French 3,080 430 2,650 0
Non-official languages 20,225 19,370 20 205
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 25 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 25 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 20,000 19,160 20 200
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 110 110 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 25 20 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 170 155 0 10
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 60 55 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 45 40 0 0
Bosnian 50 50 0 0
Bulgarian 45 50 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 235 200 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 535 485 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 340 335 0 0
Czech 285 280 0 0
Danish 180 180 0 0
Dutch 1,075 1,040 0 30
Estonian 25 25 0 0
Finnish 165 165 0 0
Flemish 20 20 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0
German 6,160 6,070 0 55
Greek 125 125 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 30 30 0 0
Hindi 125 120 0 0
Hungarian 715 690 0 15
Ilocano 55 55 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 920 895 0 10
Japanese 350 340 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 350 315 0 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 25 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0
Macedonian 5 10 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0
Mandarin 205 190 0 5
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 100 100 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,760 1,505 0 15
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 215 200 0 5
Polish 710 695 5 5
Portuguese 350 340 0 10
Romanian 225 205 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0
Russian 685 655 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 170 160 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 50 45 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0
Slovak 110 110 0 0
Slovenian 145 140 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 745 695 0 20
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 105 105 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 580 580 0 0
Taiwanese 20 20 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 10 0 0
Thai 65 70 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 40 35 5 0
Ukrainian 940 930 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0
Vietnamese 195 185 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 200 185 5 5
Multiple responses 1,795 1,705 35 50
English and French 395 335 10 50
English and non-official language 1,280 1,275 0 0
French and non-official language 90 65 25 0
English, French and non-official language 30 30 5 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 177,615 174,020 2,715 260
Single responses 175,060 171,645 2,605 185
English 168,460 166,510 1,955 0
French 715 70 650 0
Non-official languages 5,885 5,070 5 185
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 5,825 5,020 10 185
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 50 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 40 25 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 30 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 5
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 105 75 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 300 250 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 80 70 0 0
Czech 75 75 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 145 115 0 25
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 40 35 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,040 950 5 50
Greek 40 45 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 40 35 0 0
Hungarian 225 200 0 10
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 200 180 0 5
Japanese 100 90 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 255 220 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 135 115 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,215 955 0 15
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 120 100 0 5
Polish 180 170 0 5
Portuguese 95 70 0 10
Romanian 60 40 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 175 155 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 65 65 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 15 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. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 30 30 0 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 275 225 0 20
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 20 10 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 205 195 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0
Ukrainian 70 60 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 120 105 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 55 50 0 0
Multiple responses 2,555 2,375 105 75
English and French 195 50 85 55
English and non-official language 2,310 2,305 10 0
French and non-official language 10 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 35 10 5 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 177,620 174,020 2,710 255
None 165,840 163,500 1,655 120
Single responses 11,545 10,325 1,040 120
English 2,985 2,465 370 105
French 1,700 1,050 645 0
Non-official languages 6,860 6,805 25 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 20 25 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 15 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 15 6,695 6,645 25 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 65 70 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 70 65 0 5
Armenian 0 0 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 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 95 95 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 130 125 0 0
Creoles 35 35 0 0
Croatian 145 145 0 0
Czech 90 90 0 0
Danish 70 70 0 0
Dutch 270 270 0 0
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 45 45 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,875 1,870 5 0
Greek 50 55 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 95 95 0 0
Hungarian 215 215 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 315 315 0 0
Japanese 185 185 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 75 70 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 15 20 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 95 85 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 25 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 400 400 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 75 80 0 0
Polish 230 230 0 0
Portuguese 140 140 0 0
Romanian 75 70 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 215 205 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 75 70 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 40 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. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 35 35 0 0
Slovenian 45 45 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 585 575 10 5
Swahili 10 5 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 215 210 0 0
Taiwanese 5 10 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 45 40 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0
Ukrainian 175 180 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 70 70 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 140 140 0 5
Multiple responses 230 195 15 20
English and French 25 5 0 15
English and non-official language 45 40 5 5
French and non-official language 160 150 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 177,620 174,020 2,715 260
English 174,020 174,020 0 0
French 2,715 0 2,710 0
English and French 255 0 0 255
Neither English nor French 625 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 2,840 0 2,715 130
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.6 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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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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