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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 Kamloops, 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 84,295 83,025 870 75
0 to 4 years 4,305 4,235 20 5
5 to 9 years 4,325 4,310 5 5
10 to 14 years 4,710 4,675 25 10
15 to 19 years 5,615 5,585 20 5
20 to 24 years 6,335 6,295 20 0
25 to 29 years 5,710 5,675 20 5
30 to 34 years 4,850 4,805 35 0
35 to 39 years 4,895 4,825 65 10
40 to 44 years 5,680 5,615 55 5
45 to 49 years 6,555 6,455 75 5
50 to 54 years 7,000 6,865 105 10
55 to 59 years 6,205 6,090 90 5
60 to 64 years 5,525 5,430 80 0
65 to 69 years 3,965 3,865 75 5
70 to 74 years 3,085 2,985 70 5
75 to 79 years 2,490 2,390 55 5
80 to 84 years 1,730 1,670 25 0
85 years and over 1,315 1,260 30 5
Median ageFootnote 2 41.2 41.0 54.2 40.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 70,955 69,805 820 60
Married or living with a common-law partner 40,990 40,245 540 35
Married (and not separated) 33,635 33,005 430 30
Living common law 7,355 7,240 105 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 29,970 29,560 285 25
Single (never legally married) 18,860 18,725 100 15
Separated 2,200 2,175 15 5
Divorced 5,210 5,110 85 0
Widowed 3,700 3,545 80 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 84,295 83,030 875 70
English only 79,320 79,320 0 0
French only 15 0 15 0
English and French 4,605 3,680 850 70
Neither English nor French 350 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 84,295 83,030 870 75
Single responses 83,595 82,350 865 55
English 74,935 74,935 0 0
French 1,015 170 850 0
Non-official languages 7,640 7,245 10 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 25 25 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 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 7,475 7,085 10 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 60 65 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 325 310 0 0
Armenian 10 15 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 25 25 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 5 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 5
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 180 160 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 405 375 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 95 95 0 0
Czech 35 30 0 5
Danish 65 70 0 0
Dutch 275 275 0 5
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 50 50 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,070 1,055 0 10
Greek 75 70 0 0
Gujarati 25 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 100 95 0 0
Hungarian 130 125 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 965 935 0 5
Japanese 205 200 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 10 0 0
Korean 135 120 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 190 175 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,140 985 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 30 0 0
Polish 180 175 0 0
Portuguese 110 105 0 0
Romanian 20 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 145 140 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 35 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 15 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 35 35 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 250 240 5 5
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 30 35 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 285 285 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 30 25 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 280 280 0 0
Urdu 50 40 0 0
Vietnamese 80 80 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 145 135 0 0
Multiple responses 700 680 10 15
English and French 125 110 0 10
English and non-official language 525 530 0 0
French and non-official language 35 30 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 84,295 83,025 875 75
Single responses 83,190 81,975 840 55
English 80,270 79,585 685 0
French 195 35 155 0
Non-official languages 2,730 2,350 0 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 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 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 2,705 2,330 0 55
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 40 40 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 235 215 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 90 70 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 285 255 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 5
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 20 20 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 115 95 0 10
Greek 25 20 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 275 245 0 0
Japanese 45 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0
Korean 90 75 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 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 150 135 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 725 580 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 50 45 0 5
Portuguese 25 25 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 20 0 5
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. 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 15 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 95 85 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 70 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 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 15 10 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 20 20 5 0
Multiple responses 1,100 1,050 30 20
English and French 50 10 25 15
English and non-official language 1,030 1,035 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 84,295 83,025 870 70
None 79,745 78,835 560 45
Single responses 4,470 4,125 305 20
English 1,265 1,140 85 20
French 655 450 205 0
Non-official languages 2,540 2,530 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 14 2,415 2,400 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 25 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 60 60 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 65 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 65 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 50 50 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 60 55 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 315 315 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 5 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 0
Hungarian 30 30 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 380 380 0 0
Japanese 115 110 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 40 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 10 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 50 45 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 260 260 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 55 55 0 0
Portuguese 35 35 0 0
Romanian 15 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 60 60 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 5 10 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 215 210 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 115 110 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 50 50 0 0
Urdu 25 30 0 0
Vietnamese 20 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 115 110 0 0
Multiple responses 80 70 5 10
English and French 10 0 0 5
English and non-official language 10 10 5 0
French and non-official language 60 60 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 84,290 83,030 870 70
English 83,025 83,030 0 0
French 870 0 870 0
English and French 70 0 0 75
Neither English nor French 320 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 905 0 870 35
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.1 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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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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