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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 Pelham, T
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 16,455 15,995 420 15
0 to 4 years 685 665 15 0
5 to 9 years 850 835 20 0
10 to 14 years 1,000 965 30 5
15 to 19 years 1,120 1,105 20 0
20 to 24 years 960 950 10 0
25 to 29 years 600 590 15 0
30 to 34 years 605 590 15 0
35 to 39 years 750 720 30 5
40 to 44 years 1,085 1,040 40 5
45 to 49 years 1,325 1,290 30 0
50 to 54 years 1,345 1,305 35 0
55 to 59 years 1,440 1,395 40 5
60 to 64 years 1,365 1,310 45 5
65 to 69 years 1,075 1,035 35 0
70 to 74 years 785 770 10 0
75 to 79 years 625 605 15 0
80 to 84 years 445 440 5 0
85 years and over 395 390 5 0
Median ageFootnote 2 47.3 47.3 48.8 41.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 13,925 13,530 360 10
Married or living with a common-law partner 9,355 9,055 265 10
Married (and not separated) 8,635 8,375 235 10
Living common law 720 685 35 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 4,575 4,475 95 5
Single (never legally married) 2,940 2,890 50 0
Separated 265 250 10 0
Divorced 495 490 5 0
Widowed 875 845 25 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 16,455 15,995 420 15
English only 15,215 15,215 0 0
French only 10 0 10 0
English and French 1,195 770 410 20
Neither English nor French 35 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 16,455 15,990 420 20
Single responses 16,310 15,860 420 10
English 14,215 14,215 0 0
French 450 35 410 0
Non-official languages 1,645 1,605 5 10
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 1,645 1,600 5 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 15 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 5
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 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 45 50 0 0
Czech 15 20 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 280 280 0 5
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 240 240 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 105 105 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 295 290 5 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 45 40 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
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 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 120 115 0 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 5 10 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 25 25 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 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 20 15 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 45 35 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 80 80 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 5 5 0 0
Multiple responses 145 135 5 10
English and French 45 35 0 10
English and non-official language 90 90 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 16,455 15,990 425 20
Single responses 16,270 15,830 410 10
English 15,825 15,525 300 0
French 115 5 110 0
Non-official languages 330 295 0 10
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 10 330 295 0 10
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 5
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 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 15 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 25 25 0 0
Greek 15 10 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 35 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 25 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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 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) 15 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
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 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 25 25 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 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 10 10 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 185 165 15 5
English and French 25 10 10 10
English and non-official language 155 150 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 5 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 16,455 15,990 425 15
None 15,435 15,165 235 15
Single responses 1,005 805 185 5
English 215 140 70 5
French 215 105 110 0
Non-official languages 575 570 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 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 14 570 560 5 0
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 15 10 0 0
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 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 95 95 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 85 80 0 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 85 85 5 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 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 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 10 15 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 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 10 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 20 25 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 25 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 5 5 0 0
Multiple responses 20 15 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 15 15 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 16,455 15,990 420 15
English 15,990 15,995 0 0
French 420 0 420 0
English and French 20 0 0 15
Neither English nor French 25 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 430 0 425 5
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 2.6 0.0 100.0 33.3

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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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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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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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