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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 Essa, TP
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 18,480 17,325 1,090 25
0 to 4 years 1,150 1,050 85 5
5 to 9 years 1,125 1,045 70 10
10 to 14 years 1,310 1,240 75 0
15 to 19 years 1,395 1,345 50 0
20 to 24 years 1,405 1,330 70 5
25 to 29 years 1,180 1,105 70 0
30 to 34 years 1,150 1,025 120 0
35 to 39 years 1,275 1,160 115 5
40 to 44 years 1,495 1,370 120 0
45 to 49 years 1,840 1,710 135 0
50 to 54 years 1,490 1,415 65 0
55 to 59 years 1,080 1,035 35 0
60 to 64 years 950 915 25 5
65 to 69 years 650 630 10 0
70 to 74 years 390 370 15 0
75 to 79 years 300 285 10 0
80 to 84 years 205 200 5 0
85 years and over 100 90 5 0
Median ageFootnote 2 37.1 37.3 35.0 12.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 14,895 13,995 860 10
Married or living with a common-law partner 9,325 8,695 605 5
Married (and not separated) 7,635 7,185 425 5
Living common law 1,690 1,505 185 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 5,565 5,300 255 5
Single (never legally married) 3,855 3,670 175 0
Separated 515 485 30 0
Divorced 665 635 30 0
Widowed 525 510 10 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 18,480 17,325 1,090 25
English only 16,430 16,425 0 0
French only 160 0 160 0
English and French 1,850 895 930 25
Neither English nor French 40 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 18,480 17,325 1,090 25
Single responses 18,300 17,180 1,070 10
English 16,030 16,030 0 0
French 1,110 60 1,055 0
Non-official languages 1,155 1,090 20 10
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 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 1,140 1,075 15 15
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 10 5 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 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 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Creoles 5 0 5 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 110 110 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 50 45 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 180 180 0 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 40 45 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 130 120 5 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0
Korean 35 30 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 0 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 135 130 0 0
Portuguese 65 60 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 25 0 0
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 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 5 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 75 65 0 5
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 15 20 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 5
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 10 5 0 0
Multiple responses 180 145 20 15
English and French 80 55 15 10
English and non-official language 95 90 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 18,475 17,325 1,090 20
Single responses 18,260 17,160 1,045 10
English 17,215 16,885 335 0
French 735 30 705 0
Non-official languages 305 245 5 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 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 295 245 5 10
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 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 20 15 0 0
Greek 15 10 0 0
Gujarati 10 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 5 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 5
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 5 5 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) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 50 45 0 0
Portuguese 20 15 0 0
Romanian 5 0 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 0 0 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 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 30 15 5 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 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 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 220 165 45 10
English and French 60 10 40 15
English and non-official language 155 155 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 18,480 17,325 1,090 25
None 17,240 16,530 655 15
Single responses 1,205 760 430 5
English 395 125 265 5
French 360 200 165 0
Non-official languages 450 440 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 0 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 0 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 445 435 5 0
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 5 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 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 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 5 5 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 25 25 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 45 45 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 70 70 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 15 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 65 60 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 0 5 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) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 20 25 0 0
Portuguese 30 25 0 0
Romanian 0 0 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 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 40 35 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 10 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 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 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 5 5 0 0
Multiple responses 40 35 0 5
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 5 5 5 0
French and non-official language 30 30 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 18,480 17,325 1,090 25
English 17,325 17,325 0 0
French 1,090 0 1,090 0
English and French 20 0 0 20
Neither English nor French 40 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,100 0 1,090 10
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 6.0 0.0 100.0 40.0

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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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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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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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