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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 Sault Ste. MarieFootnote 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 78,665 75,710 2,545 95
0 to 4 years 3,720 3,665 25 10
5 to 9 years 3,710 3,655 45 10
10 to 14 years 4,045 3,980 60 5
15 to 19 years 5,020 4,920 85 10
20 to 24 years 5,010 4,920 85 5
25 to 29 years 4,440 4,360 75 0
30 to 34 years 4,305 4,190 110 5
35 to 39 years 4,225 4,100 120 0
40 to 44 years 4,755 4,570 180 5
45 to 49 years 6,190 5,930 245 10
50 to 54 years 6,955 6,655 290 5
55 to 59 years 6,220 5,930 280 5
60 to 64 years 5,605 5,355 235 5
65 to 69 years 4,180 3,945 215 5
70 to 74 years 3,535 3,315 180 5
75 to 79 years 2,980 2,750 160 5
80 to 84 years 2,255 2,050 115 5
85 years and over 1,525 1,410 45 0
Median ageFootnote 4 45.1 44.5 54.2 30.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 67,190 64,400 2,420 65
Married or living with a common-law partner 38,425 36,700 1,545 25
Married (and not separated) 32,280 30,800 1,305 25
Living common law 6,145 5,905 240 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 28,765 27,705 880 40
Single (never legally married) 17,335 16,945 355 25
Separated 2,315 2,215 95 5
Divorced 4,440 4,210 215 10
Widowed 4,675 4,335 210 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 78,665 75,705 2,545 100
English only 71,140 71,140 0 0
French only 55 0 55 0
English and French 7,140 4,555 2,490 95
Neither English nor French 335 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 78,665 75,705 2,545 95
Single responses 77,880 74,980 2,525 50
English 68,000 68,000 5 0
French 2,780 265 2,515 0
Non-official languages 7,095 6,720 10 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 110 110 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 90 90 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 6,945 6,575 10 50
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 45 45 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 40 40 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 105 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 135 130 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 25 20 0 0
Dutch 105 105 0 0
Estonian 85 85 0 0
Finnish 635 620 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 535 535 0 0
Greek 35 35 0 0
Gujarati 40 40 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 40 35 0 0
Hungarian 65 60 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 3,670 3,400 5 10
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 30 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 40 40 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 15 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 320 315 0 0
Portuguese 160 155 0 0
Romanian 20 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 30 30 0 0
Slovenian 25 20 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 200 175 0 20
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 20 15 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 205 200 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 40 35 0 5
Multiple responses 790 725 20 45
English and French 320 260 15 45
English and non-official language 440 435 0 0
French and non-official language 25 25 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 78,665 75,710 2,545 95
Single responses 77,795 74,990 2,445 40
English 74,940 73,105 1,835 0
French 645 40 605 0
Non-official languages 2,210 1,850 0 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 15 20 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 15 15 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 12 2,175 1,810 0 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 0
Armenian 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 50 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 30 30 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 160 150 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 75 75 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 30 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,255 985 0 10
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 85 75 0 0
Portuguese 70 65 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 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) 5 5 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 15 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 115 85 0 20
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 25 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 20 15 0 0
Multiple responses 870 720 100 50
English and French 185 40 100 45
English and non-official language 670 670 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 78,665 75,705 2,545 100
None 72,860 71,065 1,435 70
Single responses 5,730 4,575 1,100 25
English 1,355 925 385 20
French 1,610 895 715 0
Non-official languages 2,765 2,755 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 195 195 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 10 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 180 180 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 2,550 2,545 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 30 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 60 60 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 10 0 0
Dutch 30 30 0 0
Estonian 20 20 0 0
Finnish 200 200 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 165 165 0 0
Greek 15 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,435 1,425 5 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 20 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 100 100 0 0
Portuguese 65 65 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 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 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 90 90 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 10 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 20 20 0 0
Multiple responses 80 70 5 0
English and French 5 5 0 0
English and non-official language 5 0 5 0
French and non-official language 70 70 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 78,670 75,705 2,545 95
English 75,705 75,705 0 0
French 2,545 0 2,545 0
English and French 100 0 0 95
Neither English nor French 315 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 2,590 0 2,545 50
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 3.3 0.0 100.0 52.6

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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

Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.

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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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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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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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