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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 Niagara
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 425,485 409,195 12,575 1,055
0 to 4 years 20,650 20,040 260 45
5 to 9 years 21,795 21,370 310 90
10 to 14 years 24,255 23,725 370 140
15 to 19 years 28,405 27,775 460 140
20 to 24 years 27,120 26,590 415 75
25 to 29 years 23,085 22,530 450 50
30 to 34 years 22,370 21,720 535 50
35 to 39 years 24,435 23,650 645 65
40 to 44 years 28,005 27,055 770 70
45 to 49 years 34,095 32,785 1,115 60
50 to 54 years 33,890 32,420 1,270 50
55 to 59 years 31,375 29,930 1,255 45
60 to 64 years 29,405 27,890 1,305 45
65 to 69 years 23,210 21,900 1,085 40
70 to 74 years 18,050 16,960 805 30
75 to 79 years 14,905 13,940 645 25
80 to 84 years 11,545 10,720 505 15
85 years and over 8,895 8,200 385 15
Median ageFootnote 2 43.7 43.2 53.9 28.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 358,785 344,060 11,635 780
Married or living with a common-law partner 208,975 199,755 7,460 385
Married (and not separated) 180,590 172,655 6,255 360
Living common law 28,385 27,105 1,210 35
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 149,815 144,300 4,175 390
Single (never legally married) 90,680 88,490 1,765 300
Separated 12,760 12,215 455 25
Divorced 22,320 21,340 835 30
Widowed 24,060 22,260 1,120 35
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 425,490 409,190 12,575 1,055
English only 390,430 390,430 0 0
French only 495 0 495 0
English and French 31,800 18,675 12,075 1,055
Neither English nor French 2,760 90 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 425,490 409,195 12,575 1,050
Single responses 419,995 404,165 12,370 790
English 348,615 348,600 10 0
French 13,285 1,065 12,220 0
Non-official languages 58,100 54,500 140 790
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 50 45 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 20 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 30 20 0 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 57,605 54,040 135 780
African languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Afrikaans 100 100 0 0
Akan (Twi) 35 35 0 0
Albanian 130 125 0 0
Amharic 30 30 0 0
Arabic 2,015 1,795 10 95
Armenian 220 200 0 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 55 40 10 5
Bengali 150 135 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 75 70 0 0
Bosnian 165 150 0 5
Bulgarian 290 270 5 10
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 670 535 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,740 1,520 5 10
Creoles 185 100 25 55
Croatian 1,205 1,160 5 5
Czech 310 300 0 0
Danish 195 195 0 0
Dutch 4,650 4,630 5 10
Estonian 110 110 0 0
Finnish 195 195 0 0
Flemish 55 55 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 6,965 6,820 5 30
Greek 835 800 0 0
Gujarati 475 415 0 15
Hakka 10 5 0 0
Hebrew 60 50 0 10
Hindi 290 285 0 0
Hungarian 1,980 1,915 5 15
Ilocano 60 60 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 5
Italian 11,695 10,960 15 50
Japanese 300 290 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 175 140 0 5
Korean 845 775 0 15
Kurdish 200 180 0 5
Lao 260 230 0 5
Latvian 135 135 0 5
Lingala 5 5 5 5
Lithuanian 135 130 0 0
Macedonian 80 75 0 0
Malay 35 35 0 0
Malayalam 115 115 0 0
Maltese 125 130 0 0
Mandarin 565 510 0 5
Marathi 35 30 0 0
Nepali 20 25 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 45 5 0
Norwegian 35 30 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 400 365 0 0
Pashto 45 40 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 370 350 0 5
Polish 4,015 3,815 0 55
Portuguese 775 730 5 5
Romanian 360 320 0 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 5 0 5
Russian 880 795 0 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 15 5 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Serbian 1,510 1,370 5 45
Serbo-Croatian 110 105 0 0
Shanghainese 10 15 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 50 30 0 0
Sindhi 40 40 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 65 65 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 95 90 0 0
Slovak 500 500 0 0
Slovenian 455 455 0 0
Somali 125 120 0 0
Spanish 4,185 3,650 15 120
Swahili 105 90 0 5
Swedish 80 80 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,340 1,330 0 5
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0
Tamil 115 110 0 5
Telugu 35 35 0 0
Thai 65 60 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 5 0 0
Tigrigna 30 30 0 0
Turkish 300 275 0 10
Ukrainian 2,010 1,940 0 20
Urdu 640 615 0 5
Vietnamese 635 540 0 10
Yiddish 15 15 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 445 415 10 10
Multiple responses 5,495 5,025 205 260
English and French 1,390 1,105 50 235
English and non-official language 3,730 3,730 0 0
French and non-official language 270 120 145 0
English, French and non-official language 105 75 5 25
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 425,490 409,190 12,575 1,050
Single responses 417,180 401,780 11,980 750
English 391,690 383,665 8,025 0
French 4,085 185 3,900 0
Non-official languages 21,410 17,935 55 750
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 5 5 0 5
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 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 21,320 17,870 55 745
African languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Afrikaans 50 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 5
Albanian 90 85 0 5
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 1,280 1,060 10 90
Armenian 95 75 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 10 5 5
Bengali 90 75 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 115 95 0 5
Bulgarian 170 150 0 10
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 435 305 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,260 1,050 0 10
Creoles 80 20 5 55
Croatian 340 305 0 5
Czech 90 85 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 260 235 5 10
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 45 45 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,300 1,160 0 30
Greek 290 255 0 5
Gujarati 275 215 5 15
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 35 25 0 5
Hindi 130 120 0 0
Hungarian 475 420 0 15
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 3,620 2,905 5 50
Japanese 130 125 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 95 70 5 5
Korean 635 565 0 15
Kurdish 150 135 5 5
Lao 140 105 0 5
Latvian 25 25 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 30 25 0 0
Macedonian 25 20 0 5
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 50 50 0 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0
Mandarin 410 340 0 5
Marathi 20 20 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 195 160 0 0
Pashto 20 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 205 185 0 5
Polish 1,505 1,300 0 60
Portuguese 250 210 0 10
Romanian 160 115 0 35
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 5 5
Russian 475 385 5 30
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Serbian 875 735 0 45
Serbo-Croatian 40 35 0 5
Shanghainese 10 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 90 75 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slovak 90 85 0 0
Slovenian 95 90 0 0
Somali 80 75 0 0
Spanish 2,610 2,080 0 120
Swahili 45 35 0 5
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 485 465 0 5
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 60 55 0 5
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 25 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 15 10 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 0
Turkish 205 175 0 10
Ukrainian 450 390 0 25
Urdu 350 330 0 5
Vietnamese 445 345 0 10
Yiddish 10 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 80 60 0 0
Multiple responses 8,305 7,405 600 300
English and French 950 205 495 245
English and non-official language 7,145 7,125 20 0
French and non-official language 65 20 40 0
English, French and non-official language 145 55 40 50
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 425,490 409,195 12,575 1,050
None 387,625 377,725 6,925 565
Single responses 37,090 30,890 5,560 385
English 10,980 8,415 2,035 325
French 6,685 3,300 3,355 25
Non-official languages 19,425 19,180 170 30
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 45 40 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 20 15 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 19,065 18,830 160 30
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 45 45 0 0
Albanian 20 15 0 0
Amharic 20 20 0 0
Arabic 640 620 15 5
Armenian 70 70 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 0
Bengali 35 35 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 40 35 0 0
Bulgarian 80 85 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 175 170 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 345 340 0 0
Creoles 120 100 25 0
Croatian 495 495 0 0
Czech 95 90 0 0
Danish 60 65 0 0
Dutch 1,570 1,565 5 0
Estonian 35 35 0 0
Finnish 45 45 0 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 2,040 2,025 5 5
Greek 465 465 0 0
Gujarati 120 115 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 20 0 0
Hindi 195 195 0 5
Hungarian 595 595 0 0
Ilocano 20 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 4,420 4,390 20 5
Japanese 160 160 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 60 55 0 0
Korean 175 175 0 0
Kurdish 15 20 0 0
Lao 60 65 0 0
Latvian 45 40 0 0
Lingala 5 0 10 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0
Macedonian 25 25 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0
Malayalam 30 35 0 0
Maltese 40 45 0 0
Mandarin 145 140 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 65 55 5 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 150 150 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 100 0 0
Polish 1,125 1,120 5 0
Portuguese 350 340 5 0
Romanian 110 110 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0
Russian 275 275 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 445 445 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 30 30 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 95 95 0 0
Sindhi 25 25 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 40 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0
Slovak 135 135 0 0
Slovenian 155 155 0 0
Somali 35 35 0 0
Spanish 1,460 1,420 30 5
Swahili 55 50 5 0
Swedish 40 35 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 515 515 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 45 45 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 35 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 75 70 0 0
Ukrainian 590 585 0 0
Urdu 200 195 0 0
Vietnamese 150 150 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 315 305 10 0
Multiple responses 775 580 90 105
English and French 110 10 5 90
English and non-official language 150 90 50 5
French and non-official language 515 480 35 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 425,490 409,190 12,575 1,050
English 409,190 409,195 0 0
French 12,575 0 12,575 0
English and French 1,055 0 0 1,050
Neither English nor French 2,665 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 13,100 0 12,575 525
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 3.1 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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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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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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 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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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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