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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 DrummondvilleFootnote 2
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 3 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 87,235 985 85,775 285
0 to 4 years 5,115 25 5,035 15
5 to 9 years 4,640 45 4,565 15
10 to 14 years 4,940 55 4,845 30
15 to 19 years 5,495 60 5,395 40
20 to 24 years 5,100 50 5,025 20
25 to 29 years 5,070 40 4,995 25
30 to 34 years 6,230 55 6,150 20
35 to 39 years 5,230 85 5,105 25
40 to 44 years 5,320 105 5,170 35
45 to 49 years 6,555 85 6,435 25
50 to 54 years 6,920 85 6,820 10
55 to 59 years 6,670 75 6,580 10
60 to 64 years 6,155 70 6,070 5
65 to 69 years 4,730 55 4,660 5
70 to 74 years 3,155 30 3,115 5
75 to 79 years 2,515 40 2,470 5
80 to 84 years 1,845 15 1,825 0
85 years and over 1,545 20 1,525 0
Median ageFootnote 4 41.8 44.4 41.8 29.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 72,540 865 71,335 230
Married or living with a common-law partner 41,925 515 41,240 115
Married (and not separated) 23,685 330 23,210 95
Living common law 18,240 185 18,030 20
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 30,610 355 30,095 115
Single (never legally married) 19,720 190 19,415 95
Separated 860 20 830 5
Divorced 5,685 90 5,570 15
Widowed 4,345 45 4,280 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 87,235 990 85,780 285
English only 100 95 0 0
French only 64,735 0 64,735 0
English and French 22,205 895 21,020 290
Neither English nor French 205 0 20 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 87,240 990 85,775 290
Single responses 86,700 955 85,370 190
English 920 875 50 0
French 84,090 10 84,080 0
Non-official languages 1,690 75 1,240 190
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 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 8 1,675 75 1,225 190
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 210 5 155 20
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 0 25 10
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 20 5 10
Creoles 25 0 25 0
Croatian 25 0 20 5
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 0 10 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 80 5 65 10
Greek 25 5 15 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 5 20 5
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 0 15 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 45 0 45 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 10 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 5 10 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 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 5
Polish 5 0 0 5
Portuguese 20 0 15 0
Romanian 40 0 25 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 15 0 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 50 0 35 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Spanish 825 20 610 75
Swahili 25 5 20 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 5 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 0 20 5
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 30 0 20 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 15 0 10 0
Multiple responses 535 35 405 95
English and French 350 20 240 90
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 160 0 155 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 10 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 87,235 990 85,775 290
Single responses 86,510 875 85,275 175
English 550 420 130 0
French 84,965 430 84,525 0
Non-official languages 995 25 610 175
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 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 12 990 25 605 175
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 95 5 50 15
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 0 15 10
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 10 5 5
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 15 0 10 10
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 15 0 15 5
Greek 10 0 0 5
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) 5 0 10 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 25 0 20 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 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 10 0 5 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 0 0 5
Portuguese 5 0 0 5
Romanian 20 0 5 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 0 15 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 0 10 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 0 0 0 0
Spanish 620 5 415 75
Swahili 10 0 10 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 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 0 10 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 730 115 505 115
English and French 325 90 150 90
English and non-official language 25 25 5 0
French and non-official language 350 0 345 0
English, French and non-official language 35 5 10 25
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 87,240 990 85,780 285
None 83,345 470 82,520 185
Single responses 3,780 505 3,165 90
English 2,520 250 2,270 10
French 710 230 385 75
Non-official languages 545 20 515 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 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 16 535 20 505 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 85 0 85 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 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 0 5 0
Creoles 5 0 10 0
Croatian 10 0 10 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 30 5 30 0
Greek 5 0 10 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 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 15 0 15 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 5 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 0 15 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 10 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 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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) 0 0 0 0
Polish 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 5 0
Romanian 15 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0
Russian 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 0 10 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 10 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 0 0 0 0
Spanish 265 15 250 5
Swahili 5 0 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 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 0 5 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 10 0 10 0
Multiple responses 110 10 85 15
English and French 15 0 0 10
English and non-official language 85 0 90 0
French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 87,240 990 85,775 290
English 990 985 0 0
French 85,780 0 85,780 0
English and French 290 0 0 285
Neither English nor French 185 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 1,135 990 0 145
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 1.3 100.0 0.0 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

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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Footnote 3

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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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Footnote 8

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 9

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 10

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 11

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 14

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 18

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 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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Footnote 20

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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