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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 Vernon
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 57,640 56,635 680 80
0 to 4 years 2,595 2,540 10 0
5 to 9 years 2,775 2,765 5 5
10 to 14 years 3,065 3,040 15 10
15 to 19 years 3,700 3,675 15 5
20 to 24 years 3,110 3,085 15 5
25 to 29 years 2,750 2,725 15 0
30 to 34 years 2,895 2,855 30 5
35 to 39 years 3,050 3,010 30 5
40 to 44 years 3,465 3,405 45 5
45 to 49 years 4,400 4,345 45 5
50 to 54 years 4,800 4,705 70 10
55 to 59 years 4,550 4,460 75 5
60 to 64 years 4,410 4,315 70 10
65 to 69 years 3,570 3,470 75 5
70 to 74 years 2,925 2,850 55 10
75 to 79 years 2,320 2,250 50 0
80 to 84 years 1,815 1,765 40 0
85 years and over 1,440 1,395 30 5
Median ageFootnote 3 46.7 46.5 57.9 47.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 49,200 48,295 655 65
Married or living with a common-law partner 29,520 28,940 425 40
Married (and not separated) 24,915 24,390 365 40
Living common law 4,610 4,550 60 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 19,675 19,355 230 20
Single (never legally married) 11,020 10,915 80 15
Separated 1,535 1,510 20 0
Divorced 3,780 3,705 60 0
Widowed 3,340 3,230 70 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 57,640 56,640 685 80
English only 53,760 53,765 0 0
French only 10 0 10 0
English and French 3,620 2,865 670 80
Neither English nor French 245 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 57,640 56,640 685 80
Single responses 57,190 56,205 680 70
English 50,745 50,745 5 0
French 805 135 665 0
Non-official languages 5,635 5,325 5 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 20 25 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 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 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 5,505 5,185 5 75
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 60 60 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 35 30 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 30 25 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 80 65 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 105 90 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 65 65 0 0
Czech 65 65 0 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 505 485 0 10
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 15 10 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,715 1,670 5 25
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0
Hungarian 95 95 0 0
Ilocano 5 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 130 120 0 0
Japanese 95 85 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0
Korean 60 45 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 25 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 490 415 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 0
Polish 145 130 0 5
Portuguese 70 65 0 5
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 460 415 0 5
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 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 160 155 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 35 30 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 120 120 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0
Ukrainian 425 420 0 5
Urdu 55 50 0 0
Vietnamese 90 70 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 115 110 0 0
Multiple responses 450 435 10 10
English and French 85 80 0 10
English and non-official language 325 325 0 0
French and non-official language 30 20 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 57,640 56,640 685 80
Single responses 57,015 56,050 655 70
English 55,290 54,765 530 0
French 160 35 130 0
Non-official languages 1,555 1,250 0 70
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 10 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 1,535 1,225 0 65
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 50 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 30 25 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 5 0 5
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 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 45 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 55 50 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 315 275 0 20
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 15 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 0
Japanese 35 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 55 40 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 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 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) 320 235 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 30 20 0 5
Portuguese 15 10 0 5
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 165 125 0 5
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. 10 10 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 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 55 50 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 20 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 5
Urdu 40 35 0 0
Vietnamese 60 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 20 20 0 0
Multiple responses 625 585 25 10
English and French 45 15 20 10
English and non-official language 560 565 5 0
French and non-official language 5 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 57,640 56,640 685 80
None 54,420 53,730 440 35
Single responses 3,160 2,855 240 45
English 765 645 75 40
French 500 340 155 0
Non-official languages 1,895 1,870 10 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 10 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 5 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 1,795 1,770 10 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 15 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 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 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 125 125 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 575 570 5 5
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 35 35 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 30 30 0 0
Japanese 35 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 100 100 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 45 40 0 0
Portuguese 25 25 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 5 0
Russian 165 165 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 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 5 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 145 150 5 0
Swahili 5 0 5 0
Swedish 15 15 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 5 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 75 75 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 95 90 0 0
Multiple responses 55 50 0 5
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 40 40 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 57,640 56,635 685 80
English 56,635 56,635 0 0
French 685 0 685 0
English and French 80 0 0 80
Neither English nor French 235 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 725 0 685 40
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.3 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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