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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 Châteauguay, V
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 45,630 14,175 29,530 1,675
0 to 4 years 2,535 750 1,605 75
5 to 9 years 2,445 800 1,530 105
10 to 14 years 2,730 930 1,670 130
15 to 19 years 3,415 1,170 2,075 165
20 to 24 years 2,845 985 1,710 150
25 to 29 years 2,355 735 1,505 110
30 to 34 years 2,635 760 1,715 160
35 to 39 years 2,645 800 1,675 165
40 to 44 years 3,030 965 1,900 160
45 to 49 years 3,750 1,240 2,380 125
50 to 54 years 3,930 1,180 2,625 115
55 to 59 years 3,155 855 2,215 65
60 to 64 years 2,735 760 1,930 40
65 to 69 years 2,230 590 1,590 40
70 to 74 years 1,840 590 1,205 30
75 to 79 years 1,515 515 950 25
80 to 84 years 1,075 320 735 10
85 years and over 755 220 510 10
Median ageFootnote 2 42.1 40.8 43.4 33.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 37,915 11,690 24,720 1,375
Married or living with a common-law partner 22,145 6,540 14,680 840
Married (and not separated) 15,450 5,215 9,410 745
Living common law 6,690 1,325 5,270 95
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 15,775 5,150 10,040 530
Single (never legally married) 10,245 3,390 6,420 425
Separated 630 235 380 15
Divorced 2,505 835 1,600 65
Widowed 2,390 695 1,635 30
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 45,630 14,175 29,530 1,675
English only 5,545 5,550 0 0
French only 13,535 0 13,535 0
English and French 26,295 8,625 15,990 1,680
Neither English nor French 250 0 5 5
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 45,630 14,175 29,530 1,680
Single responses 44,365 13,725 29,025 1,365
English 12,255 12,215 35 0
French 27,385 40 27,345 0
Non-official languages 4,725 1,475 1,640 1,365
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 5 5 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 6 4,630 1,435 1,605 1,350
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 5
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 370 20 255 80
Armenian 10 5 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 5
Bengali 85 35 5 25
Berber languages (Kabyle) 20 0 15 5
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 5
Bulgarian 45 0 25 20
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 5 15 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 45 20 15
Creoles 140 25 75 35
Croatian 30 5 10 10
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 35 30 5 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 175 150 5 20
Greek 140 105 10 20
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 5 5
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 70 40 15 10
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 475 305 105 60
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 40 5 15 10
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 0 10 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 10 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 5 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 5 20 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 30 0 30 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 20 0 15
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 95 40 20 35
Polish 275 105 60 95
Portuguese 130 35 55 40
Romanian 265 20 85 145
Rundi (Kirundi) 30 0 25 0
Russian 420 85 145 165
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 25 5 30 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 5 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 25 5 10 15
Spanish 1,045 135 445 405
Swahili 10 0 15 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 45 40 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 5
Turkish 45 15 5 20
Ukrainian 45 25 15 10
Urdu 30 15 0 10
Vietnamese 55 10 25 15
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 95 40 35 20
Multiple responses 1,270 445 505 315
English and French 765 280 225 265
English and non-official language 130 130 5 0
French and non-official language 265 0 265 0
English, French and non-official language 110 45 15 50
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 45,630 14,175 29,535 1,680
Single responses 43,845 13,685 28,685 1,235
English 13,765 12,895 870 0
French 27,570 420 27,145 0
Non-official languages 2,515 370 665 1,235
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 2,475 360 655 1,220
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 0 5 5
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 160 5 60 65
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 70 25 5 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 15 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 5
Bulgarian 30 0 10 20
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 0 10 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 25 10 20
Creoles 45 0 10 30
Croatian 15 5 0 10
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 25 15 0 10
Greek 50 25 0 15
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 25 10 5 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 80 5 20 45
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 5 5 10
Korean 5 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 10 0 15
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 70 15 10 40
Polish 170 40 30 90
Portuguese 55 0 10 35
Romanian 200 10 45 135
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 5
Russian 370 45 120 170
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 0 0 5
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) 10 0 0 5
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 0 0 0
Somali 20 0 10 15
Spanish 720 55 230 375
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 10 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 40 10 10 20
Ukrainian 25 0 5 10
Urdu 15 5 0 10
Vietnamese 35 0 10 15
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 35 5 15 15
Multiple responses 1,780 490 845 445
English and French 815 215 295 305
English and non-official language 265 265 5 0
French and non-official language 525 0 520 0
English, French and non-official language 175 15 20 140
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 45,630 14,175 29,530 1,680
None 37,625 11,300 25,210 900
Single responses 7,555 2,755 4,195 585
English 3,140 365 2,600 165
French 3,065 1,820 880 355
Non-official languages 1,350 565 715 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 5 5 5
Atikamekw 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 5 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 14 1,275 535 665 60
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 140 10 130 10
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 0 10 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 0 0 0
Creoles 105 15 95 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 60 55 5 5
Greek 55 50 5 0
Gujarati 5 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 5
Hindi 0 5 0 0
Hungarian 20 10 5 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 200 140 45 5
Japanese 5 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 0 10 0
Korean 0 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 10 0 10 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 10 20 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 0 10 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 5 5 0
Polish 40 25 15 0
Portuguese 40 25 10 0
Romanian 30 5 25 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 10 0
Russian 35 20 10 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 20 0 15 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. 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. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 5 0
Spanish 235 50 175 10
Swahili 10 5 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0
Vietnamese 15 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 70 25 45 0
Multiple responses 445 120 125 200
English and French 200 5 5 190
English and non-official language 110 10 105 0
French and non-official language 130 105 15 5
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 45,630 14,175 29,535 1,675
English 14,175 14,175 0 0
French 29,530 0 29,530 0
English and French 1,675 0 0 1,680
Neither English nor French 245 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 15,010 14,175 0 840
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 32.9 100.0 0.0 50.1

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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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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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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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