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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 Saint John
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 2 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 126,280 120,650 5,100 265
0 to 4 years 6,735 6,540 120 35
5 to 9 years 6,770 6,575 155 25
10 to 14 years 7,445 7,200 175 65
15 to 19 years 8,545 8,345 165 35
20 to 24 years 7,915 7,740 145 15
25 to 29 years 7,165 6,930 225 5
30 to 34 years 7,520 7,210 290 10
35 to 39 years 8,325 7,895 390 20
40 to 44 years 8,575 8,130 395 15
45 to 49 years 10,560 10,050 460 10
50 to 54 years 10,520 10,015 480 5
55 to 59 years 9,485 8,980 490 5
60 to 64 years 8,395 7,900 490 5
65 to 69 years 6,060 5,670 375 0
70 to 74 years 4,300 3,990 295 5
75 to 79 years 3,295 3,095 185 5
80 to 84 years 2,505 2,350 150 5
85 years and over 2,170 2,040 125 0
Median ageFootnote 3 41.6 41.2 50.4 15.4
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 105,335 100,335 4,655 135
Married or living with a common-law partner 61,490 58,135 3,130 70
Married (and not separated) 52,110 49,235 2,655 65
Living common law 9,375 8,900 470 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 43,845 42,200 1,525 70
Single (never legally married) 27,860 27,045 735 55
Separated 3,505 3,340 150 5
Divorced 6,240 5,945 280 0
Widowed 6,245 5,870 360 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 126,280 120,655 5,100 265
English only 107,145 107,145 0 0
French only 160 0 165 0
English and French 18,695 13,495 4,935 265
Neither English nor French 275 15 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 126,280 120,650 5,100 265
Single responses 125,420 119,960 5,060 135
English 116,040 116,035 5 0
French 5,515 490 5,035 0
Non-official languages 3,865 3,445 30 135
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 10 10 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 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 3,785 3,370 25 135
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 10 0 0
Arabic 390 350 10 20
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5 0
Bengali 45 35 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 435 365 5 5
Creoles 15 15 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 15 20 0 0
Dutch 155 150 5 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 210 200 0 10
Greek 80 75 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 90 80 5 5
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 100 95 0 5
Japanese 15 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 595 530 5 30
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 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 120 100 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 55 30 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 135 125 0 0
Polish 60 50 0 5
Portuguese 75 70 0 5
Romanian 45 40 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 80 70 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 310 255 0 25
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 130 125 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0
Ukrainian 25 25 0 0
Urdu 80 75 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 75 65 0 5
Multiple responses 860 690 35 130
English and French 575 425 25 120
English and non-official language 250 250 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 126,280 120,650 5,100 265
Single responses 125,375 120,080 4,920 115
English 121,080 118,110 2,965 0
French 2,035 90 1,950 0
Non-official languages 2,265 1,880 10 120
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 2,205 1,835 10 110
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 5
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 280 260 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 20 20 0 5
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 20 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 325 260 5 5
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 25 25 0 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 40 30 0 10
Greek 20 15 0 0
Gujarati 5 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 55 45 0 5
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 25 20 0 5
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 530 460 0 30
Kurdish 5 5 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 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 105 85 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 50 25 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 90 80 0 0
Polish 15 10 0 0
Portuguese 35 25 0 0
Romanian 15 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 170 120 0 25
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 70 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 0 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 0
Vietnamese 45 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 50 40 0 0
Multiple responses 905 570 180 150
English and French 390 95 170 125
English and non-official language 475 475 0 0
French and non-official language 10 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 30 5 0 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 126,280 120,650 5,100 265
None 120,225 116,980 2,820 190
Single responses 5,965 3,610 2,265 65
English 2,000 915 1,010 55
French 2,870 1,640 1,230 5
Non-official languages 1,095 1,055 30 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 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 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,060 1,015 25 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 5 0
Arabic 70 65 5 0
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 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 85 80 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 40 40 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 75 75 0 0
Greek 35 35 0 5
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 45 45 0 5
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 50 45 5 0
Japanese 20 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 45 45 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 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 35 0 0
Polish 20 25 0 0
Portuguese 20 25 0 0
Romanian 25 20 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 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 5 5 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 140 135 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 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 10 10 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 35 35 0 0
Multiple responses 90 60 15 10
English and French 15 5 0 10
English and non-official language 15 10 5 0
French and non-official language 60 50 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 126,275 120,650 5,100 265
English 120,655 120,650 0 0
French 5,100 0 5,100 0
English and French 265 0 0 265
Neither English nor French 265 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 5,230 0 5,100 130
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 4.1 0.0 100.0 49.1

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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

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

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Footnote 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 9

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 10

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 13

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 14

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 17

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 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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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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011058.

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