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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 Whitehorse, 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 23,035 21,875 995 80
0 to 4 years 1,410 1,325 55 15
5 to 9 years 1,370 1,300 55 15
10 to 14 years 1,425 1,375 45 10
15 to 19 years 1,585 1,535 45 0
20 to 24 years 1,670 1,615 45 5
25 to 29 years 1,730 1,660 70 0
30 to 34 years 1,645 1,550 90 0
35 to 39 years 1,740 1,635 90 5
40 to 44 years 1,720 1,630 80 5
45 to 49 years 1,920 1,805 105 0
50 to 54 years 2,005 1,885 105 5
55 to 59 years 1,690 1,615 65 5
60 to 64 years 1,345 1,270 70 5
65 to 69 years 750 705 30 5
70 to 74 years 450 420 20 0
75 to 79 years 300 280 10 0
80 to 84 years 175 160 10 0
85 years and over 120 115 5 5
Median ageFootnote 2 36.9 36.8 40.0 15.7
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 18,835 17,880 845 45
Married or living with a common-law partner 10,180 9,650 465 20
Married (and not separated) 7,305 6,990 260 20
Living common law 2,880 2,665 205 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 8,650 8,230 375 20
Single (never legally married) 6,065 5,775 270 15
Separated 540 520 15 0
Divorced 1,445 1,370 65 0
Widowed 600 570 20 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 23,035 21,875 995 80
English only 19,555 19,550 0 0
French only 70 0 75 0
English and French 3,320 2,315 920 80
Neither English nor French 90 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 23,035 21,875 995 80
Single responses 22,725 21,610 985 45
English 19,505 19,505 5 0
French 1,015 40 975 0
Non-official languages 2,210 2,070 5 45
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 15 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 10 0 0
Dene 10 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 1,990 1,855 10 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 60 60 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 90 70 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 90 0 0
Creoles 20 10 5 5
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 15 20 0 0
Dutch 85 75 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 345 340 0 10
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 5
Hungarian 45 40 0 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 25 0 0
Japanese 40 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 30 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 30 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 85 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 40 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0
Spanish 140 125 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 355 350 0 0
Taiwanese 5 10 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 65 55 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 200 190 0 0
Multiple responses 310 265 15 35
English and French 105 65 5 35
English and non-official language 180 180 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 23,035 21,875 995 80
Single responses 22,640 21,565 955 40
English 21,120 20,755 365 0
French 610 30 585 0
Non-official languages 910 775 5 35
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 10 875 750 10 35
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 5 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 45 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 55 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 45 40 0 10
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 5
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 10 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 15 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 30 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 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) 60 55 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 25 10 5
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. 5 0 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 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 90 70 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 225 220 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 55 45 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 35 25 0 5
Multiple responses 390 310 40 45
English and French 75 10 30 35
English and non-official language 300 300 5 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 5 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 23,035 21,870 995 80
None 20,885 20,270 495 50
Single responses 2,100 1,565 490 25
English 695 390 270 25
French 535 330 205 0
Non-official languages 865 845 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0
Dene 5 10 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 14 680 660 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 5 0 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 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Creoles 15 5 5 5
Croatian 5 10 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 25 20 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 150 150 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 15 5 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 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 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 5 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 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 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 75 70 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 95 90 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 10 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 165 165 5 0
Multiple responses 50 35 10 0
English and French 5 0 5 0
English and non-official language 10 5 10 0
French and non-official language 40 35 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 23,035 21,875 995 80
English 21,875 21,875 0 0
French 995 0 995 0
English and French 80 0 0 80
Neither English nor French 85 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,035 0 995 40
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 4.5 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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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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