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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 Charlottetown, 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 33,605 32,325 690 80
0 to 4 years 1,595 1,505 25 10
5 to 9 years 1,500 1,445 20 5
10 to 14 years 1,725 1,670 15 15
15 to 19 years 2,245 2,180 30 15
20 to 24 years 3,000 2,925 50 10
25 to 29 years 2,255 2,185 55 5
30 to 34 years 1,935 1,860 55 0
35 to 39 years 1,970 1,880 40 5
40 to 44 years 2,220 2,075 50 5
45 to 49 years 2,635 2,460 55 0
50 to 54 years 2,555 2,445 55 5
55 to 59 years 2,460 2,370 75 0
60 to 64 years 2,210 2,145 55 0
65 to 69 years 1,545 1,510 30 5
70 to 74 years 1,280 1,245 30 0
75 to 79 years 1,075 1,050 20 0
80 to 84 years 725 710 15 0
85 years and over 670 655 15 0
Median ageFootnote 2 41.4 41.3 45.4 18.9
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 28,790 27,705 630 50
Married or living with a common-law partner 14,765 14,035 370 20
Married (and not separated) 12,445 11,810 285 20
Living common law 2,325 2,225 85 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 14,020 13,670 260 30
Single (never legally married) 9,380 9,130 180 25
Separated 865 835 20 0
Divorced 1,950 1,900 35 0
Widowed 1,830 1,800 20 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 33,605 32,320 695 75
English only 28,740 28,735 0 0
French only 35 0 35 0
English and French 4,295 3,560 660 75
Neither English nor French 535 25 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 33,610 32,325 690 75
Single responses 33,360 32,120 680 55
English 29,765 29,765 0 0
French 725 55 665 0
Non-official languages 2,875 2,295 15 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 10 10 0 5
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 2,840 2,265 10 50
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 45 35 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 220 200 5 10
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 25 25 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 20 10 0 5
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 60 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 930 620 0 5
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 80 80 5 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 55 50 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 5
Japanese 40 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 80 70 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 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 225 170 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 90 65 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 185 165 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 15 10 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 85 75 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 35 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 30 25 0 0
Spanish 135 120 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 45 45 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 245 205 15 25
English and French 100 75 10 15
English and non-official language 125 125 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 33,605 32,325 695 75
Single responses 33,200 31,975 655 55
English 30,775 30,420 360 0
French 320 25 290 0
Non-official languages 2,110 1,530 5 60
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 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 5 0 0 5
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 2,095 1,530 5 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 50 35 0 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 95 80 5 15
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 20 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 5
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 45 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 870 550 0 5
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 5 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 10 5 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 0 0 5
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 75 65 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 5
Mandarin 210 150 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 90 60 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 160 135 0 0
Polish 0 5 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 65 55 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 10 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 25 15 0 0
Spanish 80 65 5 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 5 0 0
Multiple responses 400 345 35 20
English and French 65 20 25 15
English and non-official language 320 320 0 0
French and non-official language 10 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 33,605 32,325 695 80
None 31,505 30,635 380 35
Single responses 2,035 1,640 310 30
English 860 640 145 25
French 570 410 155 0
Non-official languages 610 590 5 0
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 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 15 20 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 560 535 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 95 95 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 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 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 50 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 20 20 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 20 20 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 25 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 10 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 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 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 10 15 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 65 60 0 0
Swahili 0 0 5 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 15 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 0 5 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 30 30 0 0
Multiple responses 70 45 5 20
English and French 20 0 0 15
English and non-official language 30 30 0 0
French and non-official language 15 15 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 33,605 32,320 695 75
English 32,325 32,325 0 0
French 695 0 690 0
English and French 75 0 0 80
Neither English nor French 510 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 730 0 695 35
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.2 0.0 100.0 46.7

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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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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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Footnote 15

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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