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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 St. John's
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 194,935 193,770 775 110
0 to 4 years 10,705 10,600 35 10
5 to 9 years 10,220 10,165 35 15
10 to 14 years 10,275 10,230 30 5
15 to 19 years 11,295 11,240 25 15
20 to 24 years 15,190 15,110 50 10
25 to 29 years 14,585 14,480 70 15
30 to 34 years 13,820 13,725 70 10
35 to 39 years 14,045 13,955 65 5
40 to 44 years 14,615 14,530 55 10
45 to 49 years 15,775 15,675 70 5
50 to 54 years 15,060 14,975 70 5
55 to 59 years 13,925 13,855 50 5
60 to 64 years 11,865 11,785 60 5
65 to 69 years 8,630 8,595 30 0
70 to 74 years 5,820 5,790 20 5
75 to 79 years 4,050 4,030 10 5
80 to 84 years 2,835 2,820 5 0
85 years and over 2,225 2,215 0 0
Median ageFootnote 3 39.1 39.1 39.9 25.9
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 163,735 162,775 675 80
Married or living with a common-law partner 94,855 94,270 445 40
Married (and not separated) 78,560 78,115 305 40
Living common law 16,300 16,150 135 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 68,880 68,510 230 45
Single (never legally married) 48,240 47,980 160 40
Separated 3,745 3,720 15 0
Divorced 8,885 8,840 40 5
Widowed 8,010 7,965 20 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 194,940 193,770 775 110
English only 180,240 180,240 0 0
French only 40 0 40 0
English and French 14,345 13,505 730 110
Neither English nor French 310 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 194,935 193,770 775 110
Single responses 194,305 193,220 725 70
English 188,965 188,965 0 0
French 810 110 700 0
Non-official languages 4,520 4,145 25 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 45 40 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 20 20 0 0
Inuktitut 20 15 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 4,295 3,935 20 75
African languages, n.i.e. 55 55 0 0
Afrikaans 25 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 100 80 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 370 320 5 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Bengali 190 185 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 50 50 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 105 90 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 730 685 0 10
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 55 50 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 195 185 0 5
Greek 40 40 0 0
Gujarati 40 35 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 75 75 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 55 50 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 65 60 0 0
Kurdish 10 15 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 165 155 0 5
Marathi 25 20 0 0
Nepali 50 40 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 0
Oromo 15 15 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 60 55 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 100 0 0
Polish 70 70 0 5
Portuguese 65 60 0 0
Romanian 30 25 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 185 160 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 345 305 0 15
Swahili 30 15 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 115 110 0 0
Taiwanese 25 20 0 0
Tamil 65 65 0 0
Telugu 35 30 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0
Urdu 135 130 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 185 165 0 0
Multiple responses 635 550 45 40
English and French 235 175 25 35
English and non-official language 355 355 0 0
French and non-official language 25 10 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 194,935 193,770 775 110
Single responses 194,105 193,030 725 65
English 191,490 191,045 450 0
French 350 75 270 0
Non-official languages 2,270 1,915 10 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 15 15 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 11 2,165 1,830 10 65
African languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 75 55 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 245 195 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 95 85 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 60 45 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 500 450 0 5
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 20 20 0 5
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 115 105 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0
Nepali 55 35 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 20 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 55 50 0 0
Polish 30 25 0 0
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 15 5 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 105 85 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 55 30 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 185 155 0 15
Swahili 25 10 5 5
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 5 10 0 0
Tamil 25 30 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 70 60 0 0
Vietnamese 20 15 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 80 60 5 0
Multiple responses 830 740 45 45
English and French 125 60 30 35
English and non-official language 670 665 0 0
French and non-official language 5 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 10 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 194,935 193,770 775 110
None 190,265 189,555 395 65
Single responses 4,565 4,135 365 30
English 1,160 965 145 30
French 1,545 1,345 200 0
Non-official languages 1,855 1,825 15 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 10 10 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,675 1,645 20 5
African languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 135 130 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 55 50 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 25 20 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 135 130 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 10 15 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 25 25 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 100 95 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 60 65 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 30 30 5 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 10 5
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 50 45 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Norwegian 35 30 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 25 20 0 0
Portuguese 30 25 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 70 70 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 45 45 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 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 5 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 215 205 0 0
Swahili 10 5 5 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 45 45 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 65 60 5 0
Vietnamese 10 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 155 155 0 0
Multiple responses 110 80 15 10
English and French 15 0 5 15
English and non-official language 25 20 10 0
French and non-official language 70 65 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 194,935 193,770 775 110
English 193,770 193,770 0 0
French 775 0 775 0
English and French 110 0 0 115
Neither English nor French 280 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 830 0 775 55
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 0.4 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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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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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Footnote 14

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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