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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 Welland, 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 50,230 44,830 5,030 130
0 to 4 years 2,465 2,315 130 10
5 to 9 years 2,565 2,420 130 20
10 to 14 years 2,725 2,550 160 10
15 to 19 years 3,180 2,950 220 5
20 to 24 years 3,040 2,850 170 10
25 to 29 years 2,880 2,690 175 5
30 to 34 years 2,870 2,655 210 5
35 to 39 years 2,980 2,740 230 5
40 to 44 years 3,320 3,025 290 5
45 to 49 years 3,910 3,480 405 15
50 to 54 years 4,095 3,545 520 5
55 to 59 years 3,690 3,145 530 5
60 to 64 years 3,440 2,915 510 5
65 to 69 years 2,740 2,330 390 5
70 to 74 years 2,135 1,790 320 5
75 to 79 years 1,685 1,405 255 0
80 to 84 years 1,370 1,115 200 0
85 years and over 1,140 910 180 0
Median ageFootnote 2 43.6 42.0 53.9 28.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 42,475 37,550 4,610 85
Married or living with a common-law partner 24,205 21,130 2,905 45
Married (and not separated) 20,305 17,660 2,480 40
Living common law 3,895 3,470 420 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 18,275 16,415 1,710 40
Single (never legally married) 10,635 9,825 765 30
Separated 1,740 1,560 175 0
Divorced 2,785 2,470 300 5
Widowed 3,120 2,565 465 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 50,230 44,825 5,025 130
English only 41,975 41,975 0 0
French only 235 0 235 0
English and French 7,760 2,845 4,790 130
Neither English nor French 255 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 50,230 44,825 5,025 130
Single responses 49,465 44,190 4,975 50
English 39,265 39,255 0 0
French 5,215 270 4,940 0
Non-official languages 4,990 4,660 35 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 10 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 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 4,950 4,625 25 50
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 130 110 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 60 5 0
Creoles 70 30 10 25
Croatian 255 245 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 200 200 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 285 285 0 0
Greek 50 50 0 0
Gujarati 45 45 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 15 5 0 0
Hungarian 555 540 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 1,590 1,480 0 5
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 70 60 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0
Maltese 15 10 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0
Polish 310 285 0 0
Portuguese 50 45 0 5
Romanian 10 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0
Russian 30 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 5 0 0
Slovak 110 115 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0
Spanish 450 390 5 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 215 210 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 35 30 5 0
Multiple responses 770 640 50 80
English and French 385 295 20 75
English and non-official language 325 330 0 0
French and non-official language 45 10 30 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 50,230 44,830 5,025 125
Single responses 49,305 44,215 4,795 50
English 45,680 42,785 2,900 0
French 1,935 50 1,890 0
Non-official languages 1,680 1,380 5 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 5 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 1,675 1,370 5 50
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 65 45 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 35 0 0
Creoles 30 5 5 20
Croatian 85 75 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 35 30 0 0
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 30 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 135 130 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 570 455 0 5
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 55 45 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 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 90 70 0 5
Portuguese 15 10 0 5
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 285 225 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 10 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 5 0 0
Multiple responses 930 615 235 80
English and French 335 50 215 75
English and non-official language 560 555 0 0
French and non-official language 15 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 10 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 50,230 44,830 5,025 130
None 44,545 41,625 2,615 95
Single responses 5,595 3,145 2,395 20
English 1,700 665 990 10
French 2,240 865 1,365 5
Non-official languages 1,655 1,610 40 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 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 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,600 1,570 30 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 65 65 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Creoles 30 20 15 0
Croatian 85 85 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 55 55 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 90 90 0 0
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0
Hungarian 140 140 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 545 545 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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) 5 0 0 0
Polish 80 80 0 0
Portuguese 25 30 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 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. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 30 25 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 150 140 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 15 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 55 55 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 45 40 10 0
Multiple responses 90 55 20 15
English and French 15 0 0 15
English and non-official language 25 5 15 0
French and non-official language 50 45 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 50,230 44,825 5,025 125
English 44,830 44,830 0 0
French 5,030 0 5,025 0
English and French 125 0 0 130
Neither English nor French 245 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 5,090 0 5,025 65
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 10.1 0.0 100.0 52.0

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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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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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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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