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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 Strathcona County, SM
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 92,035 90,200 1,585 90
0 to 4 years 5,605 5,530 35 10
5 to 9 years 6,005 5,950 45 5
10 to 14 years 6,305 6,230 70 5
15 to 19 years 6,925 6,860 55 15
20 to 24 years 5,820 5,770 40 5
25 to 29 years 4,810 4,710 90 10
30 to 34 years 5,475 5,380 85 5
35 to 39 years 6,360 6,210 130 10
40 to 44 years 7,060 6,920 135 10
45 to 49 years 8,030 7,865 155 5
50 to 54 years 7,820 7,625 185 0
55 to 59 years 6,355 6,215 130 5
60 to 64 years 5,535 5,365 150 5
65 to 69 years 3,940 3,820 110 5
70 to 74 years 2,490 2,385 85 0
75 to 79 years 1,695 1,620 50 0
80 to 84 years 1,025 995 20 5
85 years and over 775 750 20 0
Median ageFootnote 2 39.0 38.8 48.7 32.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 74,120 72,490 1,435 75
Married or living with a common-law partner 49,255 48,055 1,085 45
Married (and not separated) 44,255 43,210 935 45
Living common law 5,000 4,845 150 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 24,860 24,435 345 25
Single (never legally married) 17,135 16,930 170 25
Separated 1,435 1,415 20 0
Divorced 3,595 3,505 85 5
Widowed 2,695 2,585 70 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 92,035 90,200 1,590 85
English only 85,455 85,455 0 0
French only 55 0 55 0
English and French 6,365 4,740 1,540 90
Neither English nor French 160 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 92,035 90,200 1,590 90
Single responses 91,295 89,515 1,565 60
English 82,090 82,085 0 0
French 1,750 190 1,560 0
Non-official languages 7,455 7,240 5 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 30 30 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 25 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 7,355 7,140 5 55
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 55 55 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 95 90 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 25 20 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 20 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 125 120 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 245 225 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 55 55 0 0
Czech 55 55 0 0
Danish 100 100 0 0
Dutch 490 485 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 5
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 1,730 1,710 0 0
Greek 40 40 0 0
Gujarati 100 95 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 100 95 0 0
Hungarian 95 85 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 195 200 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 50 45 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 5 5
Latvian 10 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 10 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 95 85 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 390 350 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 50 45 0 0
Polish 285 285 0 5
Portuguese 115 110 0 5
Romanian 45 45 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 85 85 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 35 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 25 25 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 25 30 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 475 440 5 15
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 25 30 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 615 610 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 20 15 0 0
Thai 15 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 1,015 1,005 0 5
Urdu 70 70 0 0
Vietnamese 60 55 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 65 65 0 0
Multiple responses 740 690 20 30
English and French 210 170 10 25
English and non-official language 490 485 0 0
French and non-official language 25 15 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 92,030 90,200 1,585 85
Single responses 91,145 89,395 1,540 60
English 88,645 87,590 1,055 0
French 510 20 485 0
Non-official languages 1,995 1,775 5 60
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 5 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 5 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 1,985 1,775 0 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 35 25 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 15 15 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 55 50 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 105 80 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 10 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 40 35 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 240 225 0 5
Greek 0 5 0 0
Gujarati 40 35 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0
Hungarian 25 15 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 15 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 30 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 5
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 10 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 50 45 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 260 220 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 5
Polish 80 75 0 5
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 20 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 30 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. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 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 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 255 220 0 15
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 320 310 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 10 0 0
Ukrainian 50 50 0 5
Urdu 45 40 0 0
Vietnamese 20 10 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 5 0 0
Multiple responses 890 810 45 35
English and French 90 20 40 30
English and non-official language 785 780 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 5 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 92,035 90,200 1,585 90
None 86,740 85,650 900 50
Single responses 5,210 4,485 675 30
English 1,320 1,030 250 35
French 1,085 675 410 0
Non-official languages 2,805 2,785 15 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 20 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 2,760 2,740 15 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 35 35 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 65 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 80 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 35 35 0 0
Dutch 120 120 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 515 515 5 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 70 65 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0
Hindi 80 80 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 95 95 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 115 115 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 85 90 0 0
Portuguese 65 65 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 35 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. 10 10 5 0
Sindhi 30 30 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 245 245 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 210 205 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 25 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 410 410 0 0
Urdu 25 20 0 0
Vietnamese 30 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 25 30 0 0
Multiple responses 80 65 10 5
English and French 0 5 0 0
English and non-official language 15 5 10 0
French and non-official language 60 60 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 92,035 90,200 1,585 90
English 90,200 90,200 0 0
French 1,585 0 1,590 0
English and French 90 0 0 90
Neither English nor French 155 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,635 0 1,590 45
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.8 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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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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