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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 Renfrew
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 99,810 94,930 4,625 180
0 to 4 years 5,295 5,065 165 30
5 to 9 years 5,170 5,005 150 10
10 to 14 years 5,480 5,310 160 10
15 to 19 years 6,275 6,110 150 20
20 to 24 years 6,205 5,935 260 10
25 to 29 years 6,265 5,955 300 5
30 to 34 years 5,620 5,305 300 15
35 to 39 years 5,565 5,240 320 10
40 to 44 years 6,060 5,725 315 10
45 to 49 years 8,030 7,595 415 10
50 to 54 years 8,090 7,685 390 10
55 to 59 years 7,535 7,140 390 5
60 to 64 years 7,105 6,730 360 5
65 to 69 years 5,315 4,985 325 5
70 to 74 years 4,280 4,045 230 0
75 to 79 years 3,390 3,200 175 10
80 to 84 years 2,340 2,215 115 0
85 years and over 1,790 1,690 85 5
Median ageFootnote 2 43.3 43.1 47.4 29.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 83,865 79,545 4,150 125
Married or living with a common-law partner 52,215 49,265 2,855 70
Married (and not separated) 43,835 41,500 2,245 60
Living common law 8,385 7,765 610 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 31,645 30,280 1,295 55
Single (never legally married) 19,170 18,450 680 35
Separated 2,570 2,455 115 0
Divorced 4,540 4,300 230 10
Widowed 5,365 5,075 270 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 99,810 94,930 4,620 180
English only 87,655 87,660 0 0
French only 200 0 200 0
English and French 11,860 7,255 4,425 180
Neither English nor French 95 20 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 99,805 94,925 4,620 180
Single responses 98,890 94,170 4,575 70
English 89,755 89,750 0 0
French 4,870 315 4,555 0
Non-official languages 4,260 4,105 10 70
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 15 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 4,210 4,045 15 70
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 70 55 5 5
Armenian 5 5 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 35 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 175 165 0 0
Creoles 5 0 5 0
Croatian 15 20 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 25 20 0 0
Dutch 430 425 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 35 35 0 0
Flemish 15 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,095 1,060 0 15
Greek 65 65 0 0
Gujarati 30 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 75 70 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 80 80 0 5
Japanese 20 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 65 60 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 5 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 60 50 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 20 0 0
Polish 995 985 0 5
Portuguese 65 60 0 0
Romanian 35 30 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 70 65 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 10 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 70 75 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 125 110 5 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 55 50 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 25 25 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 55 55 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 45 40 0 0
Multiple responses 920 755 50 110
English and French 545 395 40 110
English and non-official language 335 330 0 0
French and non-official language 25 15 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 99,810 94,925 4,620 180
Single responses 98,855 94,285 4,425 65
English 96,200 93,385 2,815 0
French 1,665 60 1,605 0
Non-official languages 990 840 5 65
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 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 980 835 5 65
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 20 10 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 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 10 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 105 95 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 35 35 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 225 185 0 15
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0
Hungarian 15 10 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 5 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 30 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 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 10 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 30 0 5
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 5 0
Polish 150 140 0 5
Portuguese 5 0 0 0
Romanian 25 15 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 35 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 35 25 0 5
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 5 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 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 10 0 0
Urdu 20 15 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 5 0 5
Multiple responses 950 640 195 115
English and French 360 60 190 115
English and non-official language 575 575 0 0
French and non-official language 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 99,810 94,930 4,620 180
None 93,950 91,255 2,490 135
Single responses 5,755 3,600 2,110 35
English 1,410 495 880 20
French 2,680 1,465 1,210 5
Non-official languages 1,670 1,645 25 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 15 15 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 5 5 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 1,595 1,565 20 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 45 40 5 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 35 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 120 120 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 350 345 0 0
Greek 25 20 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 20 0 0
Hungarian 30 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 45 45 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 420 415 0 0
Portuguese 35 35 0 0
Romanian 10 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. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 15 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 110 100 10 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 15 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 5 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 5
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 25 30 0 0
Vietnamese 15 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 65 65 5 0
Multiple responses 100 70 25 10
English and French 10 0 0 10
English and non-official language 10 5 5 0
French and non-official language 80 70 15 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 99,805 94,925 4,625 180
English 94,930 94,930 0 0
French 4,620 0 4,625 0
English and French 180 0 0 180
Neither English nor French 75 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 4,715 0 4,620 90
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 4.7 0.0 99.9 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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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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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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