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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 Fredericton, 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 55,555 51,205 3,850 285
0 to 4 years 2,805 2,575 150 35
5 to 9 years 2,665 2,490 135 30
10 to 14 years 2,785 2,600 125 45
15 to 19 years 3,235 3,005 200 35
20 to 24 years 5,420 5,130 260 20
25 to 29 years 4,685 4,325 325 25
30 to 34 years 3,845 3,480 345 15
35 to 39 years 3,580 3,275 280 15
40 to 44 years 3,515 3,175 310 15
45 to 49 years 3,905 3,520 330 15
50 to 54 years 3,815 3,415 375 15
55 to 59 years 3,620 3,295 320 5
60 to 64 years 3,360 3,110 235 10
65 to 69 years 2,470 2,300 160 0
70 to 74 years 2,005 1,885 115 0
75 to 79 years 1,540 1,435 95 5
80 to 84 years 1,180 1,120 50 0
85 years and over 1,135 1,085 45 0
Median ageFootnote 2 38.3 38.1 41.7 19.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 47,295 43,545 3,440 170
Married or living with a common-law partner 26,120 23,825 2,100 80
Married (and not separated) 21,315 19,480 1,650 75
Living common law 4,805 4,340 450 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 21,180 19,720 1,335 90
Single (never legally married) 14,295 13,275 920 80
Separated 1,410 1,290 110 5
Divorced 2,890 2,690 190 0
Widowed 2,590 2,465 110 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 55,555 51,210 3,850 285
English only 42,380 42,385 0 0
French only 190 0 190 0
English and French 12,745 8,810 3,660 280
Neither English nor French 235 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 55,555 51,210 3,850 280
Single responses 54,815 50,635 3,800 170
English 47,125 47,130 0 0
French 3,850 95 3,750 0
Non-official languages 3,840 3,405 50 170
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 10 15 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 10 10 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 3,775 3,345 45 165
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 20 15 0 0
Arabic 405 320 20 40
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Bengali 100 90 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 25 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 55 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 445 400 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 30 25 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0
Dutch 95 95 0 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 210 195 0 15
Greek 20 20 0 5
Gujarati 15 15 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 85 85 0 0
Hungarian 30 30 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 55 45 0 5
Japanese 35 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 490 445 0 10
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 170 140 0 5
Marathi 15 10 0 5
Nepali 45 30 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 205 195 0 5
Polish 55 45 5 5
Portuguese 45 40 0 0
Romanian 80 65 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 10 0 5
Russian 130 120 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 15 0 10 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 65 55 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 5
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 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 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 220 190 5 20
Swahili 35 20 5 5
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 30 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 20 25 0 0
Ukrainian 20 20 0 5
Urdu 60 55 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 5
Other languagesFootnote 7 50 50 0 0
Multiple responses 740 575 50 115
English and French 415 275 40 105
English and non-official language 290 290 0 0
French and non-official language 15 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 55,555 51,205 3,845 280
Single responses 54,695 50,650 3,675 155
English 50,395 48,765 1,630 0
French 2,110 75 2,040 0
Non-official languages 2,190 1,820 5 150
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 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 10 2,175 1,805 5 155
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 10 0 0
Arabic 195 130 0 40
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 60 55 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 55 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 345 305 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 35 25 0 10
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 10 5 0 5
Japanese 20 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 430 385 0 10
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 140 115 0 5
Marathi 0 5 0 0
Nepali 35 20 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 160 150 0 5
Polish 25 15 0 5
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 45 30 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 5
Russian 90 75 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 65 55 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 105 75 0 20
Swahili 10 10 0 5
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 35 35 0 0
Vietnamese 30 30 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 20 15 0 0
Multiple responses 860 560 175 130
English and French 345 65 170 110
English and non-official language 480 480 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 30 15 0 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 55,555 51,210 3,845 280
None 50,080 47,720 2,005 165
Single responses 5,345 3,395 1,825 95
English 1,875 845 940 70
French 2,150 1,320 825 10
Non-official languages 1,310 1,230 65 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 20 20 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 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 15 15 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,225 1,145 60 15
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 10 0 0
Arabic 180 165 15 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Bengali 15 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 90 90 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 45 40 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 100 95 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 0
Gujarati 5 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0
Hindi 45 50 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 40 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 30 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 20 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 10 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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 0 0 0 0
Spanish 135 125 5 5
Swahili 50 25 10 5
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 25 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 10 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 15 5 0 5
Urdu 30 25 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 70 65 0 0
Multiple responses 130 90 15 20
English and French 20 0 0 15
English and non-official language 30 20 10 0
French and non-official language 80 75 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 55,560 51,210 3,850 285
English 51,205 51,210 0 0
French 3,850 0 3,850 0
English and French 280 0 0 280
Neither English nor French 220 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 3,990 0 3,850 140
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 7.2 0.0 100.0 49.1

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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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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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Footnote 14

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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