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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 Chatham-Kent
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 102,760 99,560 2,530 90
0 to 4 years 5,545 5,305 50 15
5 to 9 years 5,790 5,695 40 10
10 to 14 years 6,375 6,295 60 0
15 to 19 years 6,990 6,910 70 10
20 to 24 years 6,020 5,930 80 10
25 to 29 years 5,530 5,420 80 0
30 to 34 years 5,255 5,135 90 5
35 to 39 years 5,580 5,445 100 5
40 to 44 years 6,365 6,165 165 5
45 to 49 years 8,235 7,980 225 5
50 to 54 years 8,600 8,325 245 5
55 to 59 years 7,700 7,405 270 5
60 to 64 years 7,160 6,845 280 0
65 to 69 years 5,425 5,165 240 5
70 to 74 years 4,300 4,090 185 0
75 to 79 years 3,295 3,100 165 0
80 to 84 years 2,525 2,375 115 5
85 years and over 2,070 1,965 80 0
Median ageFootnote 2 43.4 43.0 56.2 25.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 85,050 82,265 2,385 60
Married or living with a common-law partner 51,220 49,335 1,605 30
Married (and not separated) 43,985 42,305 1,405 25
Living common law 7,235 7,025 200 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 33,830 32,930 775 30
Single (never legally married) 20,150 19,790 325 20
Separated 2,860 2,790 65 0
Divorced 5,040 4,870 160 0
Widowed 5,775 5,480 230 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 102,760 99,560 2,530 90
English only 95,015 95,015 0 0
French only 75 0 75 0
English and French 7,065 4,525 2,450 90
Neither English nor French 605 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 102,760 99,555 2,530 90
Single responses 101,850 98,720 2,495 50
English 90,185 90,185 0 0
French 2,915 430 2,485 0
Non-official languages 8,745 8,105 10 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 10 10 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 10 15 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 8,665 8,025 10 45
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 85 80 0 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 60 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 85 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 40 35 0 0
Czech 210 210 0 5
Danish 30 30 0 0
Dutch 1,330 1,325 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 210 210 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 3,000 2,665 0 5
Greek 125 125 0 0
Gujarati 45 35 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 155 150 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 510 480 5 0
Japanese 20 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 140 140 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 40 30 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 10 15 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0
Mandarin 50 40 0 5
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 65 5 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 35 0 0
Polish 425 410 0 0
Portuguese 645 575 0 5
Romanian 65 60 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 10 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 40 40 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slovak 105 110 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 225 185 0 15
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 90 90 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 40 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 130 120 0 0
Urdu 120 115 0 0
Vietnamese 215 185 0 5
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 70 75 0 0
Multiple responses 910 835 35 40
English and French 360 310 10 35
English and non-official language 495 490 5 0
French and non-official language 40 20 20 0
English, French and non-official language 15 15 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 102,760 99,560 2,525 90
Single responses 101,670 98,620 2,420 45
English 97,425 95,610 1,820 0
French 640 55 590 0
Non-official languages 3,600 2,955 10 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 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 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 3,575 2,940 10 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 50 0 0
Creoles 0 5 5 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 5
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 85 80 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,820 1,485 0 5
Greek 50 50 0 0
Gujarati 30 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 150 120 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 100 95 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 10 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 35 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 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) 45 40 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 185 170 5 0
Portuguese 280 215 0 0
Romanian 15 15 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 5 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 15 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 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 120 80 0 15
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 20 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 35 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 10 0 0
Urdu 90 85 0 0
Vietnamese 140 115 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 20 20 0 0
Multiple responses 1,090 935 110 40
English and French 195 60 105 40
English and non-official language 880 870 5 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 102,760 99,555 2,525 90
None 96,400 94,250 1,545 70
Single responses 6,270 5,230 970 15
English 1,780 1,425 310 15
French 1,765 1,105 655 0
Non-official languages 2,730 2,700 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 30 30 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 25 30 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 2,605 2,575 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 55 55 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 55 55 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 370 370 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0
Flemish 35 40 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 805 800 0 0
Greek 65 60 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 15 0 0
Hungarian 35 40 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 175 170 5 0
Japanese 10 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 95 95 0 0
Portuguese 265 265 0 0
Romanian 30 30 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 35 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. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 125 125 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 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 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 55 55 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 95 100 0 0
Multiple responses 90 75 10 5
English and French 0 0 5 0
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 75 70 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 102,760 99,560 2,530 85
English 99,555 99,555 0 0
French 2,530 0 2,530 0
English and French 90 0 0 90
Neither English nor French 585 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,570 0 2,525 45
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.5 0.0 99.8 52.9

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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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