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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 Pitt Meadows, CY
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 17,730 17,230 210 70
0 to 4 years 1,080 1,050 10 0
5 to 9 years 1,090 1,070 10 15
10 to 14 years 1,075 1,060 0 15
15 to 19 years 1,215 1,205 0 5
20 to 24 years 1,065 1,055 0 0
25 to 29 years 1,085 1,070 15 5
30 to 34 years 1,150 1,125 15 0
35 to 39 years 1,235 1,205 20 5
40 to 44 years 1,405 1,370 15 5
45 to 49 years 1,500 1,465 15 0
50 to 54 years 1,565 1,525 15 5
55 to 59 years 1,165 1,120 25 5
60 to 64 years 990 945 15 0
65 to 69 years 750 700 20 0
70 to 74 years 525 495 15 5
75 to 79 years 395 365 10 0
80 to 84 years 265 240 5 0
85 years and over 175 165 0 0
Median ageFootnote 2 39.5 39.1 47.9 22.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 14,480 14,055 185 45
Married or living with a common-law partner 8,985 8,695 125 20
Married (and not separated) 7,755 7,490 95 15
Living common law 1,235 1,200 30 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 5,495 5,365 60 20
Single (never legally married) 3,570 3,525 15 15
Separated 445 430 5 5
Divorced 840 815 20 0
Widowed 650 590 20 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 17,730 17,230 205 70
English only 16,115 16,115 0 0
French only 10 0 5 0
English and French 1,375 1,105 200 65
Neither English nor French 230 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 17,730 17,230 210 70
Single responses 17,420 16,930 200 70
English 14,175 14,175 0 0
French 215 25 190 0
Non-official languages 3,020 2,725 5 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 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 2,990 2,695 5 70
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 30 30 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 35 30 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 5
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 105 90 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 105 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 30 25 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 140 140 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 20 25 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 200 195 0 5
Greek 30 25 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0
Hungarian 45 45 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 80 80 0 0
Japanese 25 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 175 150 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 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 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 95 75 0 5
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 465 375 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 115 95 0 5
Polish 110 105 0 0
Portuguese 95 90 5 5
Romanian 90 65 0 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 120 100 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 5 5 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) 5 5 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 30 25 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 225 200 0 5
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 280 275 0 5
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 35 35 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 30 30 0 0
Multiple responses 315 300 10 0
English and French 35 35 0 0
English and non-official language 250 250 0 0
French and non-official language 15 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 17,730 17,230 210 65
Single responses 17,245 16,755 205 65
English 15,765 15,630 135 0
French 60 0 60 0
Non-official languages 1,415 1,125 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 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 1,405 1,115 5 65
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 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 15 15 0 5
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 5
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 60 45 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 70 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 20 20 0 5
Estonian 10 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 30 25 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 10 0 5
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 155 125 0 5
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 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 70 50 0 5
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) 320 225 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 60 45 0 5
Polish 55 55 0 0
Portuguese 25 20 0 0
Romanian 65 40 0 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 75 60 5 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 130 100 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 105 100 0 0
Taiwanese 5 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 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 10 0 0
Multiple responses 485 475 5 5
English and French 15 10 5 0
English and non-official language 450 450 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 17,725 17,230 210 70
None 15,865 15,530 110 30
Single responses 1,825 1,670 100 35
English 610 530 30 30
French 200 140 60 0
Non-official languages 1,020 995 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 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 14 1,010 985 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 20 20 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 30 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 30 30 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 60 65 0 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 35 25 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 25 25 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0
Marathi 5 5 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) 120 120 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 35 0 0
Polish 35 35 0 0
Portuguese 40 45 0 0
Romanian 30 30 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 35 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) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 100 100 0 5
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 120 115 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 10 5 0 0
Multiple responses 35 30 5 5
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 25 25 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 17,730 17,230 210 70
English 17,230 17,230 0 0
French 205 0 210 0
English and French 65 0 0 70
Neither English nor French 225 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 245 0 210 35
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.4 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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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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Footnote 11

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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Footnote 15

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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