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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), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Saint John, CY
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 1 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 68,810 65,465 2,970 165
0 to 4 years 3,640 3,525 60 20
5 to 9 years 3,215 3,125 65 15
10 to 14 years 3,510 3,380 80 45
15 to 19 years 4,280 4,155 90 20
20 to 24 years 4,920 4,795 105 10
25 to 29 years 4,640 4,485 150 5
30 to 34 years 4,295 4,110 170 10
35 to 39 years 4,310 4,100 185 15
40 to 44 years 4,385 4,130 220 10
45 to 49 years 5,565 5,290 230 5
50 to 54 years 5,680 5,395 265 5
55 to 59 years 4,965 4,680 270 0
60 to 64 years 4,425 4,130 290 0
65 to 69 years 3,280 3,040 230 5
70 to 74 years 2,445 2,225 210 0
75 to 79 years 2,060 1,910 140 0
80 to 84 years 1,680 1,560 115 0
85 years and over 1,520 1,415 100 0
Median ageFootnote 2 41.8 41.3 52.7 15.4
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 58,450 55,430 2,765 80
Married or living with a common-law partner 30,060 28,250 1,650 40
Married (and not separated) 24,220 22,705 1,360 35
Living common law 5,845 5,545 290 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 28,390 27,175 1,120 45
Single (never legally married) 17,655 17,050 540 40
Separated 2,380 2,265 110 0
Divorced 4,245 4,030 205 0
Widowed 4,115 3,835 260 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 68,810 65,460 2,970 165
English only 59,415 59,415 0 0
French only 85 0 85 0
English and French 9,090 6,040 2,885 160
Neither English nor French 225 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 68,815 65,460 2,970 165
Single responses 68,310 65,060 2,955 80
English 62,330 62,330 5 0
French 3,275 350 2,925 0
Non-official languages 2,695 2,375 25 80
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 2,635 2,325 20 80
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0
Amharic 5 5 5 0
Arabic 360 330 10 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Bengali 25 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 390 325 5 5
Creoles 15 15 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 60 55 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 90 90 0 0
Greek 55 55 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 85 75 0 5
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 50 45 0 5
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 250 220 0 15
Kurdish 10 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 105 85 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 55 35 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 5
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 110 100 0 0
Polish 35 35 0 0
Portuguese 55 55 0 5
Romanian 45 35 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 50 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 225 180 5 15
Swahili 5 10 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 105 105 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 5
Urdu 75 70 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 55 45 0 0
Multiple responses 505 405 15 85
English and French 305 220 10 80
English and non-official language 180 180 0 0
French and non-official language 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 68,815 65,460 2,970 160
Single responses 68,200 65,055 2,860 65
English 65,355 63,615 1,740 0
French 1,160 50 1,115 0
Non-official languages 1,680 1,395 10 70
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 5 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 10 1,635 1,350 10 65
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 270 250 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 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 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 305 240 5 5
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 10 10 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 10 0 0
Hindi 60 45 0 5
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 10 10 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 220 190 0 10
Kurdish 5 5 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 95 80 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 50 25 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 15 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 80 70 0 0
Polish 10 5 0 0
Portuguese 30 20 0 0
Romanian 20 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 25 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 115 75 0 15
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 65 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 45 40 0 5
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 45 40 0 5
Multiple responses 610 405 110 95
English and French 235 50 100 80
English and non-official language 350 355 0 0
French and non-official language 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 5 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 68,815 65,465 2,970 165
None 65,210 63,255 1,635 125
Single responses 3,545 2,170 1,325 35
English 1,325 695 590 30
French 1,490 775 715 0
Non-official languages 735 705 20 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 5 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 14 715 685 20 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 60 60 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 65 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 20 20 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 40 35 0 0
Greek 25 30 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0
Hungarian 5 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 15 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 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 20 15 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) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 25 20 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 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 5 0 0
Somali 5 10 0 0
Spanish 100 95 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 15 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 0 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 15 15 0 0
Multiple responses 55 35 10 5
English and French 5 0 5 5
English and non-official language 10 0 5 0
French and non-official language 35 30 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 68,815 65,460 2,970 165
English 65,460 65,460 0 0
French 2,970 0 2,970 0
English and French 165 0 0 160
Neither English nor French 215 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 3,055 0 2,970 80
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 4.4 0.0 100.0 48.5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

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Footnote 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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 7

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 8

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 9

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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Footnote 10

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 12

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 13

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 17

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 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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011053.

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