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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 Whitehorse
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 25,790 24,430 1,170 100
0 to 4 years 1,520 1,430 65 15
5 to 9 years 1,505 1,430 60 15
10 to 14 years 1,550 1,490 45 10
15 to 19 years 1,715 1,660 50 5
20 to 24 years 1,790 1,730 50 5
25 to 29 years 1,885 1,795 85 5
30 to 34 years 1,780 1,670 105 0
35 to 39 years 1,920 1,785 125 5
40 to 44 years 1,885 1,780 90 10
45 to 49 years 2,170 2,035 125 0
50 to 54 years 2,360 2,215 125 5
55 to 59 years 2,025 1,940 80 5
60 to 64 years 1,595 1,505 80 5
65 to 69 years 885 840 30 0
70 to 74 years 525 500 20 0
75 to 79 years 345 330 10 0
80 to 84 years 195 180 10 0
85 years and over 130 125 0 0
Median ageFootnote 3 38.0 37.9 39.7 20.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 21,205 20,085 995 55
Married or living with a common-law partner 11,710 11,060 575 30
Married (and not separated) 8,375 8,010 305 25
Living common law 3,335 3,050 280 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 9,495 9,025 415 25
Single (never legally married) 6,605 6,285 300 20
Separated 595 570 20 0
Divorced 1,630 1,550 75 0
Widowed 655 625 20 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 25,790 24,430 1,170 95
English only 21,820 21,820 0 0
French only 80 0 80 0
English and French 3,795 2,610 1,085 95
Neither English nor French 95 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 25,790 24,435 1,170 95
Single responses 25,445 24,140 1,155 60
English 21,750 21,750 0 0
French 1,180 45 1,140 0
Non-official languages 2,510 2,345 10 60
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 25 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 2,270 2,115 15 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 60 60 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 95 70 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 95 0 0
Creoles 20 10 5 5
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 30 35 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 100 90 5 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 550 515 5 25
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 5
Hungarian 45 45 0 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 30 30 0 0
Japanese 45 45 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 30 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 30 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 85 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 45 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 140 125 5 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 355 350 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 45 45 0 0
Urdu 20 15 0 0
Vietnamese 65 60 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 220 210 0 5
Multiple responses 340 295 15 35
English and French 115 75 5 35
English and non-official language 200 200 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 25,790 24,430 1,165 95
Single responses 25,345 24,080 1,115 55
English 23,635 23,200 435 0
French 710 35 670 0
Non-official languages 995 845 10 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 5 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 11 960 815 10 50
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 15 15 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 10 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 35 35 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 50 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 55 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 120 90 0 25
Greek 0 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 5
Hungarian 10 5 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 0 5 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 55 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 10 0 0
Polish 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 20 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 5
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 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 90 70 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 225 215 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 35 30 5 5
Multiple responses 445 350 50 45
English and French 90 15 35 40
English and non-official language 340 340 0 0
French and non-official language 10 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 5 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 25,785 24,435 1,165 100
None 23,315 22,610 575 55
Single responses 2,415 1,780 580 40
English 795 440 315 30
French 630 375 255 5
Non-official languages 985 970 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Dene 10 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 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 15 780 755 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 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 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 20 0 0
Creoles 10 5 5 5
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 10 15 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 30 25 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 205 205 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 0
Japanese 30 30 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 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 10 0 0
Polish 15 20 0 0
Portuguese 0 5 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 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 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 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 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 90 85 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 95 95 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 10 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 190 195 0 0
Multiple responses 60 45 15 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 10 0 5 0
French and non-official language 40 40 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 25,790 24,435 1,170 95
English 24,435 24,435 0 0
French 1,170 0 1,170 0
English and French 95 0 0 100
Neither English nor French 90 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,215 0 1,165 45
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 4.7 0.0 99.6 47.4

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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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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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