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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: First Official Language Spoken (7), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2011 Census

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This table details first official language spoken , detailed language spoken most often at home , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in St. Catharines - Niagara
Detailed language spoken most often at home (232) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 386,520 370,740 12,175 1,020 2,590 12,685 3.3
Single responses 378,705 363,785 11,590 730 2,590 11,955 3.2
English 354,110 346,400 7,710 0 0 7,710 2.2
French 4,015 180 3,835 0 0 3,835 95.5
Non-official languages 20,580 17,215 50 735 2,585 410 2.0
Aboriginal languages 15 10 0 5 0 5 33.3
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree languages 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 5 0 0 0 0 5 100.0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mohawk 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages 6,480 5,180 10 210 1,085 115 1.8
Italian 3,555 2,845 5 45 655 30 0.8
Portuguese 220 180 0 5 25 5 2.3
Romanian 150 105 0 30 10 15 10.0
Spanish 2,560 2,040 5 120 395 65 2.5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 1,525 1,365 5 40 115 25 1.6
Dutch 185 165 5 5 5 5 2.7
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
German 1,260 1,120 5 30 110 15 1.2
Yiddish 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Scandinavian languages 20 20 0 0 0 5 25.0
Danish 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Afrikaans 50 45 0 5 0 0 0.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 4,005 3,445 5 170 385 90 2.2
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Bosnian 110 95 0 5 15 0 0.0
Bulgarian 170 155 0 10 10 5 2.9
Croatian 300 270 0 5 30 5 1.7
Czech 85 80 0 0 10 0 0.0
Macedonian 20 15 0 5 5 0 0.0
Polish 1,380 1,200 0 50 130 25 1.8
Russian 460 375 0 30 55 15 3.3
Serbian 835 700 0 45 95 25 3.0
Serbo-Croatian 40 35 0 0 0 5 12.5
Slovak 75 75 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovenian 85 80 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ukrainian 420 355 0 25 40 15 3.6
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5 5 33.3
Baltic languages 50 45 0 0 5 0 0.0
Latvian 20 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Lithuanian 25 25 0 5 5 0 0.0
Greek 235 205 0 5 25 5 2.1
Armenian 95 75 0 10 15 5 5.3
Albanian 85 75 0 5 10 0 0.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 510 455 0 10 40 5 1.0
Estonian 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Finnish 40 40 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 450 400 0 15 35 5 1.1
Turkic languages 205 175 0 10 15 5 2.4
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Turkish 195 170 5 10 10 5 2.6
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,430 1,200 5 100 125 55 3.8
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 85 80 0 0 5 0 0.0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 85 75 0 0 5 0 0.0
Semitic languages 1,350 1,120 5 100 120 55 4.1
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Arabic 1,255 1,045 10 95 115 55 4.4
Hebrew 35 25 0 5 0 0 0.0
Maltese 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 1,425 1,255 5 30 135 20 1.4
Indo-Aryan languages 1,050 915 5 25 110 10 1.0
Bengali 85 80 0 5 5 5 5.9
Gujarati 265 210 5 10 45 10 3.8
Hindi 125 115 0 0 10 0 0.0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 165 140 0 0 30 0 0.0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 335 310 0 5 15 5 1.5
Nepali 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 365 330 0 10 25 5 1.4
Kurdish 145 130 0 5 10 5 3.4
Pashto 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 200 180 0 5 15 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 120 110 0 5 5 0 0.0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayalam 50 50 0 0 5 0 0.0
Tamil 55 50 0 5 0 5 9.1
Telugu 15 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 130 115 0 0 5 5 3.8
Korean 630 560 0 10 60 5 0.8
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,105 1,705 0 20 375 10 0.5
Chinese languages 2,090 1,690 0 20 375 10 0.5
Cantonese 420 290 0 5 120 5 1.2
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 405 340 0 5 60 5 1.2
Shanghainese 10 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,240 1,045 0 10 190 5 0.4
Tibetan languages 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai languages 165 120 0 5 35 5 3.0
Lao 140 100 0 5 35 5 3.6
Thai 25 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 525 405 0 10 105 10 1.9
Khmer (Cambodian) 95 70 5 5 20 5 5.3
Vietnamese 435 335 0 10 85 5 1.1
Malayo-Polynesian languages 520 500 0 5 10 5 1.0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 480 465 0 5 10 5 1.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 120 85 10 20 5 15 12.5
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bantu languages 95 65 5 20 5 15 15.8
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 5 10 0 10 66.7
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Shona 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swahili 40 30 0 5 5 0 0.0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 5 0 5 33.3
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Creoles 80 20 5 50 0 30 37.5
Non-verbal languages 125 90 0 0 30 0 0.0
American Sign Language 40 20 0 5 20 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e. 85 70 0 0 15 0 0.0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Multiple responses 7,820 6,955 585 280 0 725 9.3
English and French 915 195 485 235 0 595 65.0
English and non-official language 6,705 6,685 15 0 0 20 0.3
French and non-official language 65 20 45 0 0 45 69.2
English, French and non-official language 140 50 40 45 0 65 46.4

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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 2

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-XCB2011036.

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