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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 Division No. 16Footnote 1
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 37,255 36,325 805 20
0 to 4 years 2,795 2,770 0 0
5 to 9 years 2,825 2,810 10 5
10 to 14 years 2,775 2,765 5 5
15 to 19 years 2,765 2,755 5 0
20 to 24 years 2,065 2,055 15 0
25 to 29 years 2,110 2,095 15 0
30 to 34 years 2,015 1,990 20 0
35 to 39 years 2,000 1,965 20 0
40 to 44 years 2,060 2,020 30 0
45 to 49 years 2,520 2,465 40 0
50 to 54 years 2,760 2,690 65 0
55 to 59 years 2,640 2,560 75 5
60 to 64 years 2,290 2,185 90 0
65 to 69 years 1,655 1,545 105 0
70 to 74 years 1,305 1,200 100 5
75 to 79 years 1,100 1,035 70 0
80 to 84 years 890 815 70 0
85 years and over 685 615 70 0
Median ageFootnote 3 38.2 37.4 65.5 50.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 28,855 27,985 790 10
Married or living with a common-law partner 16,830 16,225 550 5
Married (and not separated) 13,920 13,350 525 5
Living common law 2,910 2,875 25 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 12,030 11,760 240 5
Single (never legally married) 7,850 7,770 65 0
Separated 765 740 20 0
Divorced 1,510 1,475 40 0
Widowed 1,905 1,775 125 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 37,255 36,330 805 15
English only 35,155 35,150 0 0
French only 20 0 20 0
English and French 1,960 1,160 785 15
Neither English nor French 120 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 37,255 36,330 805 15
Single responses 36,795 35,880 800 10
English 31,080 31,075 0 0
French 960 170 795 0
Non-official languages 4,755 4,635 5 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 2,120 2,100 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 2,085 2,070 0 5
Dene 25 25 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 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 7 2,610 2,510 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 5 0 0
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 45 50 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 80 0 0
Creoles 0 0 5 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0
Czech 5 10 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 40 35 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 645 635 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 65 65 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 40 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 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 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 40 40 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 40 45 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 50 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 70 65 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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. 185 175 0 5
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 75 65 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 30 30 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 210 205 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 680 675 5 0
Urdu 25 20 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 460 450 5 5
English and French 60 55 5 10
English and non-official language 370 370 0 0
French and non-official language 25 20 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 37,255 36,330 805 20
Single responses 36,705 35,805 780 10
English 34,335 33,750 580 0
French 240 40 195 0
Non-official languages 2,130 2,015 0 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 1,190 1,170 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,170 1,150 0 0
Dene 10 10 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 11 940 840 0 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 90 70 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 190 175 0 0
Greek 5 10 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 30 25 0 0
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 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 10 0 0
Portuguese 5 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 70 65 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 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. 150 140 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 50 40 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 120 115 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 5 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 5 5 0 0
Multiple responses 555 520 25 5
English and French 30 10 20 5
English and non-official language 505 505 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 5 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 37,255 36,330 805 15
None 34,460 33,865 505 10
Single responses 2,750 2,420 305 10
English 835 700 115 10
French 375 200 180 0
Non-official languages 1,540 1,520 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 870 870 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 860 855 5 0
Dene 10 15 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 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 15 655 645 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 0 0 0
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 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 80 80 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 5 0 0
Hungarian 10 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 5 0 0
Japanese 0 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 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 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 5 5 0 0
Portuguese 5 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 35 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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. 15 10 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 30 30 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 60 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 250 250 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 15 15 0 0
Multiple responses 45 45 0 0
English and French 0 5 0 0
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 35 30 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 37,255 36,330 805 20
English 36,325 36,325 0 0
French 805 0 805 0
English and French 20 0 0 15
Neither English nor French 105 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 815 0 805 10
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 2.2 0.0 100.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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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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Footnote 8

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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Footnote 12

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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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 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-XCB2011053.

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