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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 Division No. 7
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 45,635 44,810 650 35
0 to 4 years 2,685 2,610 20 5
5 to 9 years 2,485 2,455 20 5
10 to 14 years 2,755 2,735 15 0
15 to 19 years 3,090 3,075 15 5
20 to 24 years 2,830 2,805 15 5
25 to 29 years 2,745 2,700 40 5
30 to 34 years 2,640 2,595 35 0
35 to 39 years 2,495 2,455 30 5
40 to 44 years 2,515 2,470 40 0
45 to 49 years 3,390 3,310 70 5
50 to 54 years 3,710 3,660 40 0
55 to 59 years 3,395 3,335 50 0
60 to 64 years 2,940 2,860 75 5
65 to 69 years 2,110 2,065 45 5
70 to 74 years 1,745 1,690 50 0
75 to 79 years 1,515 1,460 50 0
80 to 84 years 1,340 1,295 35 0
85 years and over 1,240 1,215 20 0
Median ageFootnote 2 42.1 41.9 54.0 20.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 37,710 37,010 595 20
Married or living with a common-law partner 22,680 22,200 420 10
Married (and not separated) 19,650 19,270 330 5
Living common law 3,025 2,930 90 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 15,035 14,810 180 15
Single (never legally married) 9,065 8,980 65 15
Separated 870 855 15 0
Divorced 2,410 2,360 40 0
Widowed 2,695 2,615 60 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 45,635 44,810 650 35
English only 43,255 43,250 0 0
French only 20 0 20 0
English and French 2,205 1,545 630 30
Neither English nor French 155 15 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 45,635 44,805 650 35
Single responses 45,310 44,505 640 20
English 41,300 41,305 0 0
French 785 145 635 0
Non-official languages 3,225 3,060 5 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 25 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 0 5 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 3,180 3,010 5 20
African languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Afrikaans 45 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 50 45 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 5
Arabic 40 40 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 15 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 45 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 155 125 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 55 60 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,595 1,530 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 25 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 20 15 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 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 20 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 20 5 5
Norwegian 20 20 0 0
Oromo 15 15 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 25 0 0
Polish 55 55 0 0
Portuguese 0 5 0 0
Romanian 40 45 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 40 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 30 30 0 0
Spanish 90 85 0 0
Swahili 15 10 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 140 135 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 195 200 0 0
Urdu 40 40 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 325 305 5 15
English and French 95 80 5 10
English and non-official language 200 200 0 0
French and non-official language 15 15 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 45,635 44,805 650 35
Single responses 45,265 44,465 640 20
English 43,580 43,135 445 0
French 200 15 190 0
Non-official languages 1,480 1,315 0 20
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 1,475 1,310 5 15
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Afrikaans 35 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 45 35 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 5
Arabic 45 40 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 30 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 105 75 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 755 695 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 5 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 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 20 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 15 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 10 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 15 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. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 15 0 0
Spanish 35 35 0 5
Swahili 20 10 5 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 65 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 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 35 35 0 0
Vietnamese 15 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 5 5 0 0
Multiple responses 370 350 10 15
English and French 25 10 10 10
English and non-official language 325 325 0 0
French and non-official language 15 15 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 45,635 44,810 650 35
None 43,615 43,080 375 25
Single responses 1,980 1,690 270 5
English 800 690 100 0
French 440 285 155 0
Non-official languages 730 715 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 15 15 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 10 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 700 690 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 25 30 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
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 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 35 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 230 230 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 15 0 0
Japanese 5 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 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 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0
Spanish 65 65 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 40 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 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 40 40 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 15 15 0 0
Multiple responses 45 35 5 5
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 20 15 5 0
French and non-official language 20 20 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 45,635 44,805 650 35
English 44,810 44,810 0 0
French 650 0 650 0
English and French 35 0 0 35
Neither English nor French 140 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 665 0 650 15
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.5 0.0 100.0 42.9

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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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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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