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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 Coquitlam, 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 125,210 117,510 1,395 900
0 to 4 years 6,495 5,765 45 10
5 to 9 years 6,710 6,495 40 70
10 to 14 years 7,495 7,285 35 125
15 to 19 years 9,165 8,940 50 145
20 to 24 years 9,080 8,895 55 75
25 to 29 years 7,895 7,730 65 40
30 to 34 years 7,345 7,110 80 75
35 to 39 years 8,145 7,790 75 70
40 to 44 years 10,360 9,780 110 50
45 to 49 years 11,145 10,395 135 65
50 to 54 years 11,035 10,330 120 55
55 to 59 years 9,090 8,455 135 35
60 to 64 years 6,955 6,380 105 25
65 to 69 years 4,740 4,260 90 10
70 to 74 years 3,695 3,145 110 10
75 to 79 years 2,755 2,285 55 5
80 to 84 years 1,795 1,430 50 5
85 years and over 1,310 1,045 45 5
Median ageFootnote 2 40.1 39.3 50.6 26.9
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 104,515 97,960 1,285 685
Married or living with a common-law partner 62,095 57,480 805 365
Married (and not separated) 56,105 51,680 675 350
Living common law 5,985 5,800 130 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 42,420 40,480 475 330
Single (never legally married) 30,315 29,605 245 285
Separated 2,460 2,285 35 10
Divorced 5,505 5,205 95 20
Widowed 4,135 3,390 105 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 125,210 117,515 1,395 900
English only 111,635 111,635 0 0
French only 60 0 60 0
English and French 8,030 5,790 1,335 895
Neither English nor French 5,495 85 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 125,210 117,515 1,395 900
Single responses 121,905 114,335 1,320 850
English 68,700 68,690 5 0
French 1,420 150 1,265 0
Non-official languages 51,785 45,490 45 850
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 10 10 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 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 51,485 45,215 45 845
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Afrikaans 75 75 0 0
Akan (Twi) 30 30 0 0
Albanian 35 30 0 0
Amharic 15 15 0 0
Arabic 730 630 5 55
Armenian 70 65 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Bengali 40 40 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 145 140 0 0
Bosnian 100 95 0 5
Bulgarian 130 115 0 10
Burmese 35 30 0 0
Cantonese 5,510 4,690 0 30
Chinese, n.o.s. 5,515 4,635 0 55
Creoles 20 15 0 5
Croatian 600 580 5 5
Czech 225 220 0 5
Danish 125 125 0 0
Dutch 340 335 0 5
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 190 190 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 90 80 0 0
German 1,120 1,100 0 10
Greek 215 200 0 5
Gujarati 375 355 0 5
Hakka 85 75 0 5
Hebrew 25 20 0 0
Hindi 445 430 0 5
Hungarian 515 475 5 0
Ilocano 90 85 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0
Italian 1,420 1,375 0 15
Japanese 715 650 0 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0
Korean 7,330 6,075 0 90
Kurdish 205 190 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 5
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 340 330 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 5,690 4,610 0 40
Marathi 35 30 0 0
Nepali 130 70 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 40 45 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,115 995 0 15
Pashto 25 25 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5,880 5,190 0 130
Polish 1,160 1,105 0 20
Portuguese 550 510 5 15
Romanian 1,025 865 5 95
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 5 5 15
Russian 1,500 1,345 0 35
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 340 320 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 55 50 0 0
Shanghainese 75 45 0 5
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0
Sindhi 145 135 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 110 110 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Slovak 220 205 0 10
Slovenian 40 35 0 0
Somali 10 15 0 0
Spanish 1,995 1,790 5 85
Swahili 35 30 0 5
Swedish 55 55 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 2,375 2,355 0 5
Taiwanese 240 180 0 5
Tamil 100 100 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 80 75 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 0 0
Turkish 185 155 0 0
Ukrainian 300 290 0 5
Urdu 185 175 0 5
Vietnamese 500 445 5 10
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 295 265 0 5
Multiple responses 3,310 3,180 80 50
English and French 235 190 20 25
English and non-official language 2,890 2,890 0 0
French and non-official language 105 55 45 0
English, French and non-official language 75 45 5 25
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 125,210 117,515 1,395 900
Single responses 117,925 110,410 1,315 795
English 84,920 84,005 910 0
French 395 25 375 0
Non-official languages 32,610 26,380 30 795
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 32,485 26,270 30 795
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 10 15 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 450 350 5 50
Armenian 25 25 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5
Bengali 30 30 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 60 55 0 0
Bosnian 75 70 0 5
Bulgarian 90 70 0 10
Burmese 15 10 0 0
Cantonese 4,350 3,450 0 30
Chinese, n.o.s. 3,560 2,740 5 55
Creoles 15 5 5 5
Croatian 220 205 0 5
Czech 75 70 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 25 25 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 60 55 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 45 40 0 0
German 120 105 0 10
Greek 50 40 0 5
Gujarati 155 135 0 5
Hakka 30 20 0 5
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 180 160 0 5
Hungarian 220 190 0 5
Ilocano 25 25 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 305 265 0 10
Japanese 365 300 0 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 6,210 4,955 0 95
Kurdish 150 140 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 145 135 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 4,635 3,530 0 40
Marathi 15 15 0 0
Nepali 105 50 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 520 405 0 10
Pashto 20 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 4,280 3,575 5 125
Polish 535 480 0 20
Portuguese 165 125 0 15
Romanian 615 455 5 95
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5
Russian 1,110 955 0 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Serbian 185 165 0 15
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0
Shanghainese 35 20 0 5
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 55 50 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 110 95 0 5
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0
Spanish 1,115 910 5 80
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 945 920 0 5
Taiwanese 105 70 0 5
Tamil 40 35 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 75 60 0 5
Ukrainian 60 50 0 0
Urdu 110 95 0 5
Vietnamese 275 220 5 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 120 110 0 5
Multiple responses 7,290 7,100 85 105
English and French 130 40 50 40
English and non-official language 7,015 7,010 5 0
French and non-official language 30 15 20 0
English, French and non-official language 110 40 10 65
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 125,215 117,515 1,395 900
None 97,625 91,485 795 380
Single responses 27,125 25,665 565 465
English 13,020 12,145 205 400
French 1,015 675 320 20
Non-official languages 13,095 12,835 40 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 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 14 12,945 12,705 35 45
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 45 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 10 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 10 5 0 0
Arabic 235 215 15 5
Armenian 20 15 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 30 35 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 1,145 1,130 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,020 1,020 0 0
Creoles 30 20 0 5
Croatian 245 245 5 0
Czech 65 65 0 0
Danish 40 35 0 0
Dutch 105 110 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 50 50 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 45 45 0 0
German 365 360 0 0
Greek 115 120 0 0
Gujarati 230 235 0 0
Hakka 20 15 0 0
Hebrew 25 25 0 0
Hindi 300 295 0 0
Hungarian 145 145 0 0
Ilocano 30 35 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 600 590 5 0
Japanese 275 275 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 800 795 0 0
Kurdish 30 25 0 0
Lao 5 10 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 145 145 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 1,000 960 0 5
Marathi 25 30 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 5
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 475 470 0 0
Pashto 10 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 1,050 1,045 0 0
Polish 335 335 0 0
Portuguese 225 225 5 0
Romanian 275 275 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5
Russian 295 280 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 105 105 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0
Shanghainese 25 15 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Sindhi 80 80 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 60 60 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 80 80 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 775 770 5 5
Swahili 25 25 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,005 1,005 0 0
Taiwanese 165 120 0 0
Tamil 45 40 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 110 85 0 0
Ukrainian 75 75 0 0
Urdu 70 70 0 0
Vietnamese 135 135 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 145 130 0 0
Multiple responses 460 370 30 55
English and French 70 10 5 55
English and non-official language 190 180 10 0
French and non-official language 190 175 15 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 125,210 117,510 1,395 900
English 117,515 117,515 0 0
French 1,395 0 1,400 0
English and French 900 0 0 900
Neither English nor French 5,405 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,845 0 1,395 450
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.5 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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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Footnote 6

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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