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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 Elgin
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 86,235 84,705 745 50
0 to 4 years 5,500 5,245 15 5
5 to 9 years 5,440 5,360 5 5
10 to 14 years 5,755 5,705 15 5
15 to 19 years 6,145 6,100 20 0
20 to 24 years 4,985 4,950 10 0
25 to 29 years 4,520 4,470 20 0
30 to 34 years 4,795 4,725 35 5
35 to 39 years 5,450 5,385 40 0
40 to 44 years 5,780 5,700 55 5
45 to 49 years 6,830 6,720 85 5
50 to 54 years 6,650 6,535 85 0
55 to 59 years 5,905 5,795 75 0
60 to 64 years 5,630 5,510 85 5
65 to 69 years 4,340 4,230 80 0
70 to 74 years 3,230 3,150 50 0
75 to 79 years 2,315 2,245 25 0
80 to 84 years 1,650 1,600 15 0
85 years and over 1,315 1,285 20 5
Median ageFootnote 2 40.5 40.4 54.1 38.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 69,545 68,400 705 35
Married or living with a common-law partner 44,005 43,190 520 25
Married (and not separated) 37,850 37,135 435 25
Living common law 6,150 6,060 85 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 25,540 25,205 185 10
Single (never legally married) 15,745 15,615 65 5
Separated 2,205 2,180 20 0
Divorced 3,640 3,590 45 0
Widowed 3,945 3,825 55 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 86,235 84,705 745 45
English only 82,190 82,190 0 0
French only 25 0 20 0
English and French 3,270 2,500 720 45
Neither English nor French 755 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 86,240 84,705 745 50
Single responses 85,505 83,990 740 35
English 73,435 73,435 0 0
French 875 155 720 0
Non-official languages 11,190 10,395 15 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 0 5 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 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 11,145 10,355 15 40
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 80 70 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 85 75 0 5
Armenian 10 5 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 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 35 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 220 215 0 0
Czech 40 35 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0
Dutch 1,185 1,180 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 150 150 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 6,885 6,300 10 5
Greek 50 50 0 0
Gujarati 40 35 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 230 220 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 195 190 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 135 125 0 0
Korean 60 50 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 20 20 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 35 35 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 55 60 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 15 0 0
Polish 320 305 0 5
Portuguese 370 325 0 0
Romanian 55 50 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 25 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 35 40 0 0
Slovenian 20 15 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 250 225 0 5
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 55 50 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 75 75 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 0
Vietnamese 90 80 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 40 40 0 0
Multiple responses 735 715 5 10
English and French 115 110 0 10
English and non-official language 555 555 0 0
French and non-official language 45 35 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 15 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 86,240 84,710 740 45
Single responses 85,020 83,535 715 35
English 80,495 79,915 580 0
French 180 55 125 0
Non-official languages 4,345 3,565 15 35
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 4,335 3,555 10 35
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 40 30 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 35 30 0 5
Armenian 5 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 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 95 85 0 5
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 80 80 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 3,185 2,600 10 5
Greek 10 5 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 10 0 0
Hungarian 45 40 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 50 45 0 0
Japanese 10 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 45 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 15 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 5 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 20 10 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) 30 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 110 95 0 5
Portuguese 130 90 0 0
Romanian 15 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 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. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 120 95 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 20 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 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 15 15 0 0
Urdu 10 15 0 0
Vietnamese 55 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 5 0 0
Multiple responses 1,220 1,180 30 15
English and French 55 20 25 10
English and non-official language 1,145 1,145 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 86,240 84,705 745 50
None 79,950 78,795 450 30
Single responses 6,195 5,820 290 20
English 1,940 1,775 95 15
French 620 425 185 5
Non-official languages 3,635 3,625 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 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 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 3,595 3,580 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 35 35 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 40 35 0 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 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 65 65 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 345 345 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 35 30 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 2,115 2,115 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 45 45 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 75 70 5 5
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 50 50 0 0
Korean 10 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 100 100 0 0
Portuguese 160 160 0 0
Romanian 20 20 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 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 15 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. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 175 165 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 20 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 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 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 15 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 40 40 0 0
Multiple responses 95 95 5 0
English and French 0 5 0 0
English and non-official language 10 10 0 0
French and non-official language 80 80 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 86,240 84,705 745 50
English 84,705 84,710 0 0
French 740 0 745 0
English and French 50 0 0 50
Neither English nor French 735 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 770 0 745 25
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 0.9 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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