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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 Division No. 6
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 234,990 230,690 2,530 350
0 to 4 years 15,045 14,640 85 20
5 to 9 years 13,545 13,355 65 50
10 to 14 years 13,820 13,635 105 50
15 to 19 years 15,805 15,605 140 35
20 to 24 years 17,510 17,335 100 25
25 to 29 years 17,595 17,370 140 25
30 to 34 years 16,595 16,345 155 20
35 to 39 years 15,075 14,800 155 25
40 to 44 years 14,635 14,350 165 25
45 to 49 years 17,925 17,605 215 25
50 to 54 years 18,155 17,835 220 10
55 to 59 years 16,185 15,875 225 10
60 to 64 years 12,730 12,445 205 10
65 to 69 years 8,900 8,685 140 0
70 to 74 years 7,095 6,855 150 10
75 to 79 years 5,900 5,745 100 0
80 to 84 years 4,550 4,410 95 0
85 years and over 3,935 3,810 70 5
Median ageFootnote 2 37.5 37.3 48.7 24.7
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 192,585 189,060 2,275 240
Married or living with a common-law partner 110,505 108,210 1,470 130
Married (and not separated) 94,280 92,210 1,265 120
Living common law 16,225 15,995 200 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 82,075 80,850 805 110
Single (never legally married) 56,190 55,530 455 85
Separated 4,175 4,115 30 5
Divorced 11,545 11,365 140 10
Widowed 10,160 9,840 180 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 234,990 230,690 2,530 350
English only 221,085 221,085 0 0
French only 145 0 145 0
English and French 12,280 9,550 2,380 350
Neither English nor French 1,485 60 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 234,990 230,690 2,530 350
Single responses 232,200 228,060 2,460 265
English 203,790 203,780 5 0
French 2,875 495 2,375 0
Non-official languages 25,545 23,785 70 265
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 505 505 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 370 370 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 120 125 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 24,545 22,825 60 255
African languages, n.i.e. 135 135 0 0
Afrikaans 140 140 0 0
Akan (Twi) 30 25 0 0
Albanian 65 60 0 0
Amharic 110 105 0 5
Arabic 640 545 10 35
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 55 45 0 0
Bengali 385 355 0 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 180 175 0 0
Bosnian 65 65 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 35 30 0 0
Cantonese 575 480 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,855 1,600 5 10
Creoles 30 30 0 0
Croatian 125 120 0 5
Czech 45 40 0 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 360 355 0 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 30 35 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 3,570 3,535 0 10
Greek 510 495 0 5
Gujarati 290 270 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 35 35 0 0
Hindi 305 290 0 0
Hungarian 555 550 0 0
Ilocano 180 170 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 55 55 0 0
Italian 400 390 0 0
Japanese 80 75 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 45 35 0 0
Korean 465 395 0 5
Kurdish 45 45 0 0
Lao 150 145 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0
Malayalam 65 70 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 510 435 0 5
Marathi 25 20 0 0
Nepali 180 110 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 110 105 5 5
Norwegian 60 60 0 0
Oromo 40 30 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,010 915 0 10
Pashto 140 120 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 355 320 5 5
Polish 530 515 0 5
Portuguese 85 75 0 10
Romanian 310 295 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 30 10 5 10
Russian 690 625 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 5 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 160 155 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 40 40 0 0
Shanghainese 10 0 0 5
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 350 235 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slovak 40 35 0 0
Slovenian 25 30 0 0
Somali 275 250 5 0
Spanish 950 855 0 50
Swahili 80 60 20 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 2,505 2,470 0 5
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 100 100 0 0
Telugu 75 75 0 0
Thai 60 55 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 125 120 0 0
Turkish 70 65 0 0
Ukrainian 1,755 1,725 0 0
Urdu 1,060 975 0 15
Vietnamese 915 795 5 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 490 455 10 5
Multiple responses 2,790 2,630 70 85
English and French 415 335 15 70
English and non-official language 2,185 2,180 5 0
French and non-official language 130 75 55 0
English, French and non-official language 55 35 0 20
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 234,990 230,690 2,525 350
Single responses 230,545 226,425 2,445 250
English 218,165 216,585 1,580 0
French 950 115 840 0
Non-official languages 11,430 9,725 30 250
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 70 70 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 60 60 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 15 15 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 11,220 9,545 30 245
African languages, n.i.e. 35 40 0 0
Afrikaans 90 90 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 55 50 0 0
Amharic 60 55 0 0
Arabic 445 355 5 25
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Bengali 250 220 0 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 95 95 0 0
Bosnian 30 25 0 0
Bulgarian 5 10 0 0
Burmese 30 25 0 5
Cantonese 365 265 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,235 985 5 10
Creoles 10 5 0 5
Croatian 35 25 0 5
Czech 5 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 30 30 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 315 280 0 10
Greek 200 185 0 5
Gujarati 155 135 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 20 0 0
Hindi 190 180 0 0
Hungarian 45 40 0 0
Ilocano 40 40 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Italian 95 90 0 0
Japanese 25 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0
Korean 370 305 0 5
Kurdish 15 15 0 0
Lao 80 70 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 395 315 0 5
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 135 70 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 30 20 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 615 530 0 5
Pashto 75 60 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 255 220 0 5
Polish 100 85 0 5
Portuguese 25 15 0 5
Romanian 80 65 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 0 5
Russian 530 480 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 80 70 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 0 0
Shanghainese 10 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 30 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 300 195 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 5 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 185 160 0 5
Spanish 415 325 0 50
Swahili 25 10 10 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,475 1,440 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 40 35 0 0
Telugu 45 40 0 5
Thai 25 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 80 70 0 0
Turkish 50 45 0 0
Ukrainian 245 220 0 0
Urdu 760 665 0 15
Vietnamese 685 570 0 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 135 105 0 5
Multiple responses 4,445 4,260 80 100
English and French 200 85 55 65
English and non-official language 4,140 4,135 5 0
French and non-official language 40 20 20 0
English, French and non-official language 65 20 5 35
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 234,990 230,690 2,530 350
None 219,700 216,745 1,495 190
Single responses 14,930 13,665 1,000 115
English 5,195 4,650 370 90
French 2,050 1,505 535 10
Non-official languages 7,685 7,515 90 15
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 420 415 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 330 325 5 0
Dene 10 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 75 75 5 0
Oji-Cree 0 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 6,970 6,820 70 10
African languages, n.i.e. 55 60 5 0
Afrikaans 40 45 0 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0
Amharic 25 30 0 0
Arabic 200 190 10 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 55 50 5 0
Bengali 90 90 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 35 40 0 0
Bosnian 30 30 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 175 170 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 390 390 0 0
Creoles 30 25 0 5
Croatian 30 30 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 105 100 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 780 780 0 0
Greek 295 295 0 0
Gujarati 75 75 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 55 55 0 0
Hindi 225 225 0 0
Hungarian 145 145 5 0
Ilocano 40 40 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Italian 130 125 0 0
Japanese 55 60 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 25 0 0
Korean 65 70 0 0
Kurdish 20 25 0 0
Lao 45 45 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 125 120 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 125 110 15 0
Norwegian 15 20 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 250 240 0 0
Pashto 35 35 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 60 60 0 0
Polish 130 130 0 0
Portuguese 50 50 0 0
Romanian 60 60 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 10 10 0
Russian 140 135 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 40 40 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 35 35 0 0
Spanish 595 590 5 0
Swahili 50 40 5 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 645 645 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 45 45 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 40 40 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 0
Ukrainian 455 450 0 0
Urdu 245 240 0 0
Vietnamese 175 170 5 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 295 280 15 0
Multiple responses 365 275 35 45
English and French 55 10 0 40
English and non-official language 110 90 15 0
French and non-official language 195 175 20 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 234,990 230,690 2,525 350
English 230,690 230,690 0 0
French 2,525 0 2,525 0
English and French 355 0 0 355
Neither English nor French 1,420 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 2,705 0 2,530 175
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.2 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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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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