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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 Pickering, CY
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 88,260 86,135 1,120 330
0 to 4 years 4,085 3,925 45 10
5 to 9 years 4,945 4,865 45 25
10 to 14 years 6,145 6,055 50 40
15 to 19 years 7,220 7,130 50 40
20 to 24 years 6,400 6,335 25 30
25 to 29 years 4,895 4,820 50 10
30 to 34 years 4,530 4,430 65 25
35 to 39 years 5,130 5,020 80 20
40 to 44 years 6,535 6,395 100 35
45 to 49 years 8,325 8,150 120 30
50 to 54 years 7,910 7,745 115 15
55 to 59 years 6,600 6,415 120 20
60 to 64 years 5,425 5,270 80 20
65 to 69 years 3,445 3,310 70 5
70 to 74 years 2,430 2,315 25 10
75 to 79 years 1,885 1,760 40 5
80 to 84 years 1,310 1,225 25 0
85 years and over 1,045 960 20 0
Median ageFootnote 2 40.6 40.4 47.4 31.3
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 73,080 71,285 980 250
Married or living with a common-law partner 42,130 40,985 685 145
Married (and not separated) 37,855 36,805 595 145
Living common law 4,275 4,180 90 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 30,950 30,305 295 105
Single (never legally married) 21,845 21,580 165 90
Separated 1,950 1,905 30 5
Divorced 3,715 3,645 45 10
Widowed 3,435 3,175 60 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 88,260 86,130 1,120 330
English only 81,555 81,550 0 0
French only 50 0 50 0
English and French 5,965 4,560 1,070 330
Neither English nor French 690 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 88,255 86,135 1,120 335
Single responses 86,375 84,345 1,065 290
English 69,380 69,375 5 0
French 1,115 90 1,025 0
Non-official languages 15,880 14,880 35 290
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 15,770 14,770 35 285
African languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 20 0 0
Albanian 55 45 0 5
Amharic 30 25 0 0
Arabic 845 760 5 40
Armenian 130 115 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Bengali 215 210 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 50 45 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 45 35 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 340 305 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 395 355 0 5
Creoles 70 55 10 10
Croatian 105 100 0 0
Czech 85 80 0 5
Danish 30 35 0 0
Dutch 225 225 0 0
Estonian 50 50 0 5
Finnish 80 80 0 5
Flemish 15 10 0 5
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 845 840 5 5
Greek 680 650 0 5
Gujarati 390 365 0 5
Hakka 10 10 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0
Hindi 295 285 0 0
Hungarian 225 220 0 5
Ilocano 20 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Italian 1,215 1,155 0 5
Japanese 50 45 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 135 125 0 0
Kurdish 15 10 0 5
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 45 45 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0
Macedonian 540 525 0 5
Malay 60 60 0 0
Malayalam 80 75 0 0
Maltese 35 35 0 0
Mandarin 175 165 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 5 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 485 440 0 5
Pashto 100 90 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 830 730 5 15
Polish 535 525 0 5
Portuguese 480 455 0 0
Romanian 395 300 0 55
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 115 110 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 75 75 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 0 0
Shanghainese 10 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 85 85 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 135 130 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 30 25 0 0
Slovenian 50 50 0 0
Somali 20 15 0 5
Spanish 845 780 5 30
Swahili 30 25 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,340 1,320 0 5
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 710 660 0 5
Telugu 20 15 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 10 0 0
Tigrigna 25 20 0 0
Turkish 50 50 0 0
Ukrainian 95 90 0 0
Urdu 1,355 1,265 5 25
Vietnamese 65 55 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 110 110 0 0
Multiple responses 1,885 1,785 55 45
English and French 165 130 15 30
English and non-official language 1,610 1,615 0 0
French and non-official language 60 15 45 0
English, French and non-official language 45 30 0 15
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 88,255 86,130 1,120 335
Single responses 85,070 83,080 1,055 265
English 78,085 77,450 635 0
French 425 30 400 0
Non-official languages 6,565 5,605 25 270
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 6,540 5,580 20 265
African languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 45 35 0 0
Amharic 10 5 0 0
Arabic 385 310 5 35
Armenian 70 65 5 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 125 110 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0
Bulgarian 25 20 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 230 195 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 165 130 0 5
Creoles 25 15 0 10
Croatian 20 15 0 5
Czech 30 25 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 15 0 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 85 80 0 5
Greek 190 160 0 5
Gujarati 165 140 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 5
Hindi 120 105 0 0
Hungarian 80 75 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 240 180 0 5
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 75 70 0 0
Kurdish 10 0 0 5
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 215 195 0 5
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 35 30 0 5
Maltese 10 10 0 0
Mandarin 120 110 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 5
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 240 195 0 5
Pashto 80 75 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 560 460 5 15
Polish 235 220 0 5
Portuguese 140 115 0 0
Romanian 230 135 0 55
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 60 55 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 25 25 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 25 25 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 40 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 15 5 0 5
Spanish 370 305 5 25
Swahili 10 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 445 435 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 400 350 0 5
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 30 30 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 890 800 0 25
Vietnamese 45 35 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 25 20 0 0
Multiple responses 3,185 3,055 65 65
English and French 130 50 40 40
English and non-official language 3,000 2,990 10 0
French and non-official language 10 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 45 10 5 25
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 88,255 86,135 1,120 330
None 77,580 76,300 530 140
Single responses 10,530 9,725 565 185
English 3,475 3,010 255 160
French 805 515 285 5
Non-official languages 6,255 6,195 35 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 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 14 6,195 6,140 30 15
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 15 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 10 5 0 0
Arabic 390 380 5 0
Armenian 65 60 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 55 60 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 125 125 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 120 0 0
Creoles 65 50 10 0
Croatian 50 50 0 0
Czech 35 40 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 70 70 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 45 45 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5
Fukien 5 10 0 0
German 280 280 0 0
Greek 395 390 0 0
Gujarati 175 175 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 240 235 0 5
Hungarian 55 55 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 580 580 5 0
Japanese 35 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 180 180 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0
Mandarin 50 50 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 5
Norwegian 10 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 180 185 0 0
Pashto 20 25 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 175 180 0 0
Polish 155 155 0 0
Portuguese 185 185 0 0
Romanian 95 95 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 25 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 65 65 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 75 80 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0
Spanish 425 425 5 0
Swahili 15 10 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 560 560 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 225 225 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 10 15 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 0
Urdu 465 460 5 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 55 55 0 0
Multiple responses 145 105 20 15
English and French 15 0 0 15
English and non-official language 45 35 10 0
French and non-official language 80 70 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 88,260 86,130 1,120 335
English 86,135 86,130 0 0
French 1,120 0 1,120 0
English and French 335 0 0 335
Neither English nor French 675 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,285 0 1,120 165
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.5 0.0 100.0 49.3

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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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Footnote 6

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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