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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 Brooks
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 23,140 22,465 290 50
0 to 4 years 1,900 1,775 20 0
5 to 9 years 1,610 1,565 10 0
10 to 14 years 1,635 1,620 5 5
15 to 19 years 1,550 1,540 10 0
20 to 24 years 1,340 1,320 10 5
25 to 29 years 1,740 1,690 25 5
30 to 34 years 1,970 1,890 25 10
35 to 39 years 1,845 1,780 20 5
40 to 44 years 1,755 1,685 40 5
45 to 49 years 1,620 1,575 25 0
50 to 54 years 1,665 1,610 35 5
55 to 59 years 1,350 1,315 20 0
60 to 64 years 1,075 1,050 15 0
65 to 69 years 775 750 10 0
70 to 74 years 485 475 10 0
75 to 79 years 370 365 0 0
80 to 84 years 250 245 5 0
85 years and over 205 205 5 0
Median ageFootnote 3 34.6 34.6 42.2 32.4
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 17,995 17,505 255 40
Married or living with a common-law partner 11,720 11,380 160 20
Married (and not separated) 9,965 9,660 130 25
Living common law 1,750 1,715 30 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 6,285 6,120 95 15
Single (never legally married) 4,325 4,230 60 15
Separated 445 420 15 0
Divorced 885 860 15 0
Widowed 635 615 5 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 23,145 22,465 290 50
English only 22,135 22,140 0 0
French only 60 0 60 0
English and French 585 310 230 45
Neither English nor French 355 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 23,140 22,465 290 45
Single responses 22,815 22,160 270 45
English 17,785 17,780 0 0
French 270 45 225 0
Non-official languages 4,760 4,335 40 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 5 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 4,705 4,290 40 40
African languages, n.i.e. 190 180 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 90 80 0 0
Arabic 270 250 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 15 5 10
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 50 50 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 20 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 235 150 0 0
Creoles 15 5 0 5
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 30 25 0 0
Dutch 145 140 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,475 1,385 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 45 40 0 0
Ilocano 15 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 10 10 0 0
Japanese 40 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 110 95 0 0
Korean 50 45 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 25 25 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 10 5 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 65 55 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 35 5 10
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 220 195 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 80 70 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 25 20 5 0
Portuguese 10 5 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 30 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 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 30 30 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 145 125 5 5
Spanish 335 280 0 5
Swahili 30 10 15 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 555 550 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 60 0 0
Urdu 80 75 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 45 40 0 5
Multiple responses 335 305 20 0
English and French 40 30 5 0
English and non-official language 260 260 5 0
French and non-official language 30 15 15 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 23,145 22,465 290 45
Single responses 22,490 21,850 260 40
English 19,260 19,140 120 0
French 145 20 130 0
Non-official languages 3,085 2,690 15 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 3,065 2,675 10 40
African languages, n.i.e. 105 100 0 0
Afrikaans 20 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 55 55 0 0
Arabic 180 155 5 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 20 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 200 115 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 25 20 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 980 890 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 5 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 85 70 0 0
Korean 40 40 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 65 45 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 180 155 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 35 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 5 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 120 100 5 5
Spanish 255 205 0 5
Swahili 15 5 5 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 415 410 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 40 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 25 15 5 0
Multiple responses 650 615 30 5
English and French 15 0 5 0
English and non-official language 610 610 0 0
French and non-official language 15 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 23,145 22,465 290 45
None 20,590 20,090 170 25
Single responses 2,495 2,325 120 15
English 1,475 1,405 35 10
French 100 55 50 5
Non-official languages 920 870 30 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 895 850 35 5
African languages, n.i.e. 45 45 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 20 20 0 0
Arabic 105 105 5 0
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 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 10 15 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 35 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 35 35 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 160 160 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 10 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 10 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 25 20 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 15 10 5 0
Portuguese 5 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 10 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 25 25 0 0
Spanish 65 70 0 0
Swahili 10 5 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 100 95 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 10 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 20 20 0 0
Multiple responses 60 45 5 5
English and French 5 0 5 0
English and non-official language 25 25 5 0
French and non-official language 25 20 0 5
English, French and non-official language 0 0 5 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 23,145 22,465 290 50
English 22,465 22,465 0 0
French 290 0 290 0
English and French 50 0 0 50
Neither English nor French 340 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 315 0 290 20
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.4 0.0 100.0 40.0

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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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