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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 ChilliwackFootnote 2
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 3 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 90,735 89,235 1,045 105
0 to 4 years 5,690 5,615 10 5
5 to 9 years 5,545 5,525 20 5
10 to 14 years 5,830 5,795 15 10
15 to 19 years 6,325 6,275 30 15
20 to 24 years 5,165 5,125 35 5
25 to 29 years 5,195 5,150 30 5
30 to 34 years 5,005 4,950 40 5
35 to 39 years 5,440 5,355 60 0
40 to 44 years 5,955 5,855 65 10
45 to 49 years 6,805 6,670 100 10
50 to 54 years 6,595 6,440 110 5
55 to 59 years 6,020 5,875 115 5
60 to 64 years 5,675 5,555 95 5
65 to 69 years 4,685 4,550 100 5
70 to 74 years 3,800 3,700 70 5
75 to 79 years 3,020 2,925 70 5
80 to 84 years 2,260 2,185 50 5
85 years and over 1,730 1,680 35 0
Median ageFootnote 4 41.0 40.7 55.4 42.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 73,670 72,300 1,005 85
Married or living with a common-law partner 44,715 43,830 650 55
Married (and not separated) 38,185 37,445 510 45
Living common law 6,530 6,385 135 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 28,950 28,470 355 30
Single (never legally married) 17,500 17,315 140 20
Separated 2,425 2,370 40 5
Divorced 4,735 4,625 90 5
Widowed 4,300 4,155 90 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 90,735 89,235 1,050 100
English only 86,215 86,215 0 0
French only 25 0 25 0
English and French 4,140 3,010 1,020 105
Neither English nor French 355 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 90,730 89,235 1,050 100
Single responses 89,890 88,435 1,035 75
English 78,705 78,705 5 0
French 1,200 180 1,025 0
Non-official languages 9,985 9,550 10 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 25 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 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 9,830 9,400 10 80
African languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Afrikaans 110 105 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 40 35 0 0
Amharic 25 25 0 0
Arabic 45 45 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 25 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 80 70 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 240 195 0 5
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 50 50 0 0
Czech 65 70 0 0
Danish 140 140 0 0
Dutch 1,915 1,895 0 10
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 85 85 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 2,965 2,915 5 20
Greek 65 65 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 95 100 0 0
Hungarian 170 165 0 5
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 125 120 0 0
Japanese 100 95 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 400 350 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 190 160 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 45 45 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 525 460 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 100 0 0
Polish 195 185 0 5
Portuguese 75 75 0 5
Romanian 195 170 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 145 145 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 35 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Slovak 30 35 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 555 510 0 5
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 270 270 0 0
Taiwanese 15 10 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 225 225 0 0
Urdu 40 40 0 0
Vietnamese 145 120 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 135 130 5 0
Multiple responses 840 805 15 25
English and French 170 140 10 20
English and non-official language 615 615 0 0
French and non-official language 50 40 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 90,735 89,235 1,045 105
Single responses 89,650 88,235 1,000 70
English 86,535 85,740 800 0
French 235 40 195 0
Non-official languages 2,880 2,455 10 70
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 0 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 12 2,840 2,425 5 70
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 45 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 0
Armenian 5 5 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 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 45 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 135 95 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 230 210 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 440 395 0 15
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 55 55 0 0
Hungarian 25 30 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 15 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 335 285 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 150 105 5 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 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 345 280 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 85 75 0 0
Polish 55 45 0 5
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 95 70 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 35 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 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. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 265 220 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 75 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 105 85 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 35 35 0 0
Multiple responses 1,080 1,000 50 35
English and French 75 15 45 20
English and non-official language 980 985 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 90,730 89,235 1,050 105
None 85,325 84,310 660 45
Single responses 5,320 4,850 390 50
English 1,390 1,190 125 40
French 600 345 255 0
Non-official languages 3,335 3,310 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 5 10 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 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 3,225 3,200 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 55 55 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 10 0 0
Arabic 10 15 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 60 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 30 30 0 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 790 790 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 35 35 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 755 750 5 0
Greek 40 40 5 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 55 55 0 0
Hungarian 45 45 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 35 0 0
Japanese 45 45 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 80 80 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 10 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0
Mandarin 55 55 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 105 105 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 55 55 0 0
Portuguese 50 50 0 0
Romanian 55 50 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 60 60 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 260 260 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 100 100 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 50 50 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 35 35 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 105 105 5 0
Multiple responses 85 80 5 5
English and French 10 0 0 5
English and non-official language 15 10 5 0
French and non-official language 65 65 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 90,735 89,235 1,050 105
English 89,235 89,235 0 0
French 1,050 0 1,045 0
English and French 105 0 0 105
Neither English nor French 345 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 1,100 0 1,045 50
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 1.2 0.0 99.5 47.6

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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

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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Footnote 3

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 9

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 10

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 11

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 14

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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Footnote 18

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 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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Footnote 20

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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