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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 Peace River
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 59,780 58,800 615 40
0 to 4 years 4,595 4,405 10 0
5 to 9 years 3,925 3,880 15 0
10 to 14 years 4,090 4,065 10 10
15 to 19 years 4,340 4,315 15 0
20 to 24 years 4,425 4,400 25 0
25 to 29 years 4,900 4,865 30 0
30 to 34 years 4,305 4,270 30 0
35 to 39 years 4,000 3,955 40 0
40 to 44 years 4,080 4,010 55 5
45 to 49 years 4,570 4,500 60 5
50 to 54 years 4,575 4,480 85 0
55 to 59 years 3,675 3,595 70 5
60 to 64 years 2,810 2,740 55 5
65 to 69 years 1,910 1,870 40 0
70 to 74 years 1,410 1,370 30 0
75 to 79 years 1,040 1,010 30 0
80 to 84 years 655 635 15 0
85 years and over 460 440 10 0
Median ageFootnote 2 34.1 34.0 51.7 31.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 47,165 46,455 585 30
Married or living with a common-law partner 28,905 28,420 400 20
Married (and not separated) 22,350 21,950 325 20
Living common law 6,550 6,470 80 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 18,265 18,035 185 10
Single (never legally married) 12,530 12,425 90 0
Separated 1,400 1,390 10 0
Divorced 2,500 2,440 55 5
Widowed 1,835 1,785 35 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 59,775 58,800 615 45
English only 56,770 56,765 0 0
French only 15 0 15 0
English and French 2,665 2,025 600 40
Neither English nor French 330 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 59,780 58,800 615 45
Single responses 59,140 58,175 610 30
English 52,745 52,745 0 0
French 730 130 595 0
Non-official languages 5,670 5,300 10 35
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 295 290 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 290 285 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 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 5,125 4,765 10 30
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 80 75 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 15 15 0 0
Arabic 30 30 0 0
Armenian 5 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 105 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 25 30 0 0
Dutch 115 115 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 2,605 2,460 5 10
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 50 50 0 0
Hungarian 50 45 0 5
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 30 30 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 75 60 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 35 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5
Norwegian 50 55 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 85 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 5
Polish 55 55 0 0
Portuguese 50 50 0 0
Romanian 40 35 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 655 515 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 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) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 125 120 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 335 330 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 95 95 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 250 240 0 0
Multiple responses 640 620 10 5
English and French 80 70 5 5
English and non-official language 515 515 0 0
French and non-official language 30 30 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 59,780 58,795 615 40
Single responses 59,060 58,100 600 30
English 56,190 55,720 465 0
French 165 35 130 0
Non-official languages 2,700 2,340 0 35
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 45 40 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 40 40 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 2,555 2,205 0 30
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 65 60 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 10 0 0
Arabic 10 5 0 0
Armenian 5 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 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. 65 55 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 20 15 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,250 1,115 0 5
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 10
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 55 45 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 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 40 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 0
Polish 20 15 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 20 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 585 445 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 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) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 40 35 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 165 160 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 105 100 0 0
Multiple responses 720 700 15 5
English and French 30 10 10 5
English and non-official language 675 675 0 0
French and non-official language 10 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 59,780 58,800 620 40
None 56,120 55,440 370 20
Single responses 3,605 3,300 245 15
English 1,165 1,055 85 15
French 440 290 150 0
Non-official languages 2,000 1,960 15 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 250 250 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 245 245 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 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 1,640 1,600 15 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 10 5 0 0
Arabic 20 20 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 20 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 25 25 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 800 790 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 20 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 5 0
Korean 15 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 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 15 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 40 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 0
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 115 100 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. 20 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 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 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0
Spanish 105 100 5 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 155 145 0 5
Taiwanese 0 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 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 20 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 10 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 110 115 0 0
Multiple responses 55 55 0 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 20 15 0 0
French and non-official language 35 35 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 59,780 58,795 615 45
English 58,795 58,800 0 0
French 615 0 615 0
English and French 40 0 0 40
Neither English nor French 320 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 640 0 615 20
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.1 0.0 100.0 44.4

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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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