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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 Fort Erie, T
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 29,665 28,985 515 50
0 to 4 years 1,290 1,265 10 0
5 to 9 years 1,465 1,455 10 0
10 to 14 years 1,590 1,575 5 10
15 to 19 years 1,995 1,970 15 15
20 to 24 years 1,600 1,575 15 5
25 to 29 years 1,325 1,300 20 5
30 to 34 years 1,385 1,350 25 5
35 to 39 years 1,590 1,550 25 5
40 to 44 years 1,970 1,920 45 5
45 to 49 years 2,460 2,380 65 5
50 to 54 years 2,570 2,510 55 5
55 to 59 years 2,380 2,340 30 5
60 to 64 years 2,320 2,255 60 0
65 to 69 years 1,820 1,760 55 0
70 to 74 years 1,385 1,345 30 0
75 to 79 years 1,095 1,060 20 0
80 to 84 years 810 785 15 0
85 years and over 620 590 10 0
Median ageFootnote 2 46.4 46.2 52.4 20.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 25,325 24,690 490 40
Married or living with a common-law partner 14,925 14,525 330 10
Married (and not separated) 12,590 12,265 255 10
Living common law 2,340 2,255 75 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 10,400 10,170 160 30
Single (never legally married) 5,905 5,815 70 15
Separated 940 910 20 0
Divorced 1,785 1,740 40 5
Widowed 1,765 1,705 30 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 29,670 28,985 515 55
English only 28,150 28,150 0 0
French only 15 0 10 0
English and French 1,385 830 500 55
Neither English nor French 120 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 29,665 28,985 515 50
Single responses 29,400 28,760 480 40
English 26,430 26,430 5 0
French 530 60 470 0
Non-official languages 2,440 2,275 15 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 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 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 2,400 2,235 10 40
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 30 30 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 10 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 75 70 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 175 150 0 0
Creoles 60 30 5 30
Croatian 50 45 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 145 145 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 320 315 0 0
Greek 55 50 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 70 70 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 450 430 0 0
Japanese 10 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 55 50 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0
Mandarin 35 25 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) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 5
Polish 85 85 0 0
Portuguese 65 65 0 0
Romanian 10 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0
Russian 35 35 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 15 15 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) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 295 265 5 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 40 40 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 20 15 0 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 35 30 0 0
Multiple responses 270 225 35 15
English and French 50 40 0 10
English and non-official language 170 165 0 0
French and non-official language 45 15 30 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 29,670 28,985 515 55
Single responses 29,305 28,685 465 35
English 28,290 27,905 385 0
French 85 5 75 0
Non-official languages 930 770 10 40
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 10 925 765 10 35
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 5 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 55 45 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 140 115 0 0
Creoles 35 5 5 25
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 35 35 0 0
Greek 20 15 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 125 110 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 35 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 20 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) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 25 25 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 5 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 200 165 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 15 0 0
Taiwanese 0 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 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 0 5 0 0
Multiple responses 360 300 45 20
English and French 35 5 20 10
English and non-official language 290 290 0 0
French and non-official language 20 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 5 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 29,665 28,985 515 55
None 28,190 27,740 320 35
Single responses 1,415 1,200 185 10
English 355 300 35 5
French 255 115 145 0
Non-official languages 805 790 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 10 10 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 5 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 765 750 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 25 0 0
Creoles 20 20 5 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 45 40 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 105 105 0 0
Greek 20 20 5 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 170 170 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
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) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 10 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 20 20 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 90 85 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 10 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 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 30 35 0 0
Multiple responses 65 40 10 15
English and French 15 0 0 10
English and non-official language 5 0 0 0
French and non-official language 45 40 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 29,665 28,985 515 55
English 28,985 28,985 0 0
French 515 0 515 0
English and French 50 0 0 55
Neither English nor French 115 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 540 0 515 25
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.8 0.0 100.0 45.5

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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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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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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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