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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), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Boucherville, V
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 1 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 40,655 1,340 38,865 395
0 to 4 years 1,920 50 1,825 25
5 to 9 years 2,305 45 2,235 20
10 to 14 years 2,345 80 2,240 25
15 to 19 years 2,825 80 2,725 25
20 to 24 years 2,125 65 2,035 25
25 to 29 years 1,435 50 1,365 20
30 to 34 years 1,815 75 1,705 35
35 to 39 years 2,430 105 2,275 45
40 to 44 years 2,800 130 2,620 45
45 to 49 years 3,515 145 3,340 25
50 to 54 years 3,665 110 3,530 25
55 to 59 years 3,295 100 3,175 25
60 to 64 years 3,020 105 2,895 20
65 to 69 years 2,635 65 2,560 10
70 to 74 years 1,865 40 1,805 15
75 to 79 years 1,230 55 1,170 5
80 to 84 years 855 25 820 10
85 years and over 585 25 555 5
Median ageFootnote 2 45.5 44.6 45.7 38.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 34,095 1,160 32,565 330
Married or living with a common-law partner 21,985 775 20,975 215
Married (and not separated) 14,240 610 13,420 190
Living common law 7,745 165 7,560 25
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 12,110 385 11,590 115
Single (never legally married) 8,125 240 7,800 80
Separated 425 35 385 5
Divorced 1,975 65 1,900 15
Widowed 1,585 50 1,505 15
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 40,655 1,335 38,865 395
English only 210 210 0 0
French only 16,750 0 16,750 0
English and French 23,630 1,125 22,115 390
Neither English nor French 65 0 5 5
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 40,660 1,335 38,865 395
Single responses 40,225 1,290 38,560 315
English 950 925 15 0
French 37,550 5 37,545 0
Non-official languages 1,725 355 995 310
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 6 1,700 350 975 310
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 245 10 180 50
Armenian 10 0 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 5 10 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 50 10 25 15
Creoles 55 0 45 5
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 15 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 30 5 15 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 5
Flemish 5 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 55 20 25 5
Greek 40 15 10 10
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 345 180 140 30
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 0 10 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 5 10 0
Marathi 0 0 0 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 10 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 10 5 10
Polish 45 10 25 10
Portuguese 145 15 100 25
Romanian 60 0 35 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 5 15 15
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 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 5 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 5
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 325 15 225 65
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 5 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 0 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 5 20 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 20 5 15 0
Multiple responses 435 45 310 80
English and French 260 35 160 70
English and non-official language 15 15 5 0
French and non-official language 140 0 140 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 10 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 40,655 1,340 38,870 395
Single responses 40,125 1,280 38,510 270
English 1,105 915 190 0
French 38,410 320 38,090 0
Non-official languages 610 50 230 275
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 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 10 600 45 225 270
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 85 0 30 50
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 20 0 5 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 5 10 10
Creoles 20 0 15 10
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 5
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 5 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 15 5 0 5
Greek 10 5 0 10
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 5 10 15
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 0 5 5
Korean 5 5 0 5
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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 5
Marathi 5 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) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 10 5 10
Polish 10 5 0 5
Portuguese 60 0 35 20
Romanian 30 0 10 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 0 0 15
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 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 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 170 5 80 60
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 5 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 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 5 10 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 0 10 0
Multiple responses 535 55 355 125
English and French 240 35 120 90
English and non-official language 20 15 5 0
French and non-official language 215 0 215 0
English, French and non-official language 55 5 20 35
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 40,655 1,335 38,865 395
None 36,385 575 35,565 190
Single responses 4,075 715 3,200 160
English 2,600 200 2,375 25
French 775 370 290 120
Non-official languages 705 145 535 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 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 5 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 14 690 145 525 15
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 120 5 115 0
Armenian 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 5 10 0
Creoles 55 0 55 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 5 10 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 15 0 10 0
Greek 20 15 5 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 135 85 40 5
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 0 10 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 5 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 0 10 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 5 0 10 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 0 15 0
Portuguese 50 5 45 0
Romanian 10 5 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 5 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Spanish 145 5 140 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 5 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 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 15 15 0 10 0
Multiple responses 195 45 105 45
English and French 50 0 0 45
English and non-official language 100 0 95 0
French and non-official language 45 45 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 40,655 1,335 38,870 395
English 1,340 1,340 0 0
French 38,865 0 38,865 0
English and French 395 0 0 395
Neither English nor French 60 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,535 1,335 0 195
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 3.8 100.0 0.0 49.4

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

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Footnote 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 11

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 12

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 13

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 14

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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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 17

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 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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011053.

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