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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 Thunder Bay
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 119,925 116,680 2,595 135
0 to 4 years 5,655 5,560 50 15
5 to 9 years 5,800 5,720 65 15
10 to 14 years 6,525 6,430 80 15
15 to 19 years 7,810 7,700 85 20
20 to 24 years 8,085 7,975 105 10
25 to 29 years 7,180 7,040 130 5
30 to 34 years 6,685 6,540 140 5
35 to 39 years 7,100 6,925 150 10
40 to 44 years 7,985 7,780 190 10
45 to 49 years 9,430 9,155 260 10
50 to 54 years 10,275 9,960 295 5
55 to 59 years 9,350 9,075 255 10
60 to 64 years 8,285 8,025 225 5
65 to 69 years 5,785 5,560 200 5
70 to 74 years 4,655 4,455 130 5
75 to 79 years 3,775 3,580 100 5
80 to 84 years 2,955 2,790 75 0
85 years and over 2,580 2,415 60 5
Median ageFootnote 3 43.2 42.8 50.8 26.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 101,955 98,980 2,395 90
Married or living with a common-law partner 56,815 55,055 1,460 35
Married (and not separated) 47,295 45,860 1,145 35
Living common law 9,520 9,195 315 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 45,135 43,925 935 55
Single (never legally married) 28,400 27,890 435 40
Separated 3,635 3,510 110 5
Divorced 6,130 5,925 195 5
Widowed 6,970 6,600 195 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 119,925 116,680 2,590 130
English only 110,485 110,485 0 0
French only 135 0 135 0
English and French 8,755 6,165 2,460 130
Neither English nor French 550 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 119,925 116,680 2,595 135
Single responses 118,520 115,375 2,555 75
English 102,115 102,115 0 0
French 2,840 300 2,540 0
Non-official languages 13,570 12,965 15 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 1,165 1,140 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 85 85 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 715 705 5 0
Oji-Cree 355 345 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 12,280 11,720 10 65
African languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 15 15 0 0
Arabic 125 120 0 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5 0
Bengali 35 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 5 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 5
Burmese 35 30 0 0
Cantonese 75 60 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 270 235 0 5
Creoles 20 25 0 0
Croatian 320 315 0 5
Czech 55 55 5 0
Danish 60 60 0 0
Dutch 410 410 0 0
Estonian 50 50 0 0
Finnish 2,205 2,130 0 5
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 830 825 0 0
Greek 145 145 0 0
Gujarati 25 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 45 45 0 0
Hungarian 145 140 0 0
Ilocano 5 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 3,155 2,970 5 10
Japanese 35 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 25 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 20 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 80 70 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 30 30 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5 0
Norwegian 25 20 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 35 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 95 85 0 0
Polish 995 965 5 5
Portuguese 395 365 0 0
Romanian 60 50 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 105 95 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 45 50 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 125 100 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Slovak 205 200 0 5
Slovenian 105 105 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 300 275 5 15
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 45 45 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 170 165 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 15 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0
Ukrainian 890 880 0 0
Urdu 70 65 0 0
Vietnamese 120 115 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 125 105 5 5
Multiple responses 1,405 1,310 40 60
English and French 320 245 10 55
English and non-official language 1,005 1,000 0 0
French and non-official language 70 40 25 0
English, French and non-official language 15 15 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 119,930 116,680 2,590 135
Single responses 118,160 115,110 2,470 60
English 113,485 111,820 1,660 0
French 885 75 810 0
Non-official languages 3,795 3,215 5 60
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 300 275 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 155 145 0 0
Oji-Cree 125 115 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 3,425 2,890 5 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 35 35 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 20 20 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 30 30 0 0
Cantonese 35 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 145 120 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 95 85 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 15 15 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 550 475 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 75 65 0 5
Greek 45 40 0 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 25 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 990 800 0 10
Japanese 0 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 5
Lingala 0 0 0 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 40 30 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 55 50 0 5
Polish 290 250 0 5
Portuguese 120 100 0 0
Romanian 35 25 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 35 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 120 100 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 30 25 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 100 80 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 60 55 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 100 90 0 0
Urdu 35 35 0 0
Vietnamese 60 60 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 70 45 0 5
Multiple responses 1,765 1,570 120 75
English and French 220 55 105 65
English and non-official language 1,505 1,505 5 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 5 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 119,925 116,680 2,595 130
None 111,175 109,165 1,460 80
Single responses 8,600 7,375 1,125 45
English 2,025 1,520 435 30
French 1,705 1,040 665 0
Non-official languages 4,865 4,815 30 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 800 795 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 60 60 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 495 490 0 5
Oji-Cree 240 240 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 4,020 3,970 25 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 75 70 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 15 15 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 10 15 0 0
Cantonese 30 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 55 0 0
Creoles 20 20 0 0
Croatian 90 90 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 10 15 0 0
Dutch 105 105 5 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 645 645 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 285 285 5 0
Greek 70 70 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,165 1,155 10 5
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 25 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 5
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 315 310 5 0
Portuguese 130 130 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 30 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 185 180 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 70 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 200 200 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 50 50 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 45 45 0 0
Multiple responses 155 140 5 5
English and French 10 0 0 10
English and non-official language 30 25 10 0
French and non-official language 115 115 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 119,930 116,680 2,595 130
English 116,685 116,680 0 0
French 2,595 0 2,595 0
English and French 135 0 0 130
Neither English nor French 520 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 2,660 0 2,595 70
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 2.2 0.0 100.0 53.8

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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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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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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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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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