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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 YorkFootnote 1
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 2 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 96,365 89,440 6,315 370
0 to 4 years 5,140 4,760 275 55
5 to 9 years 5,230 4,905 265 45
10 to 14 years 5,440 5,130 245 55
15 to 19 years 5,915 5,570 295 45
20 to 24 years 7,335 6,955 350 25
25 to 29 years 6,580 6,135 410 30
30 to 34 years 6,255 5,715 505 15
35 to 39 years 6,410 5,900 475 15
40 to 44 years 6,485 5,915 535 15
45 to 49 years 7,465 6,780 615 25
50 to 54 years 7,270 6,630 610 15
55 to 59 years 6,855 6,260 580 5
60 to 64 years 6,330 5,890 430 5
65 to 69 years 4,555 4,275 270 5
70 to 74 years 3,370 3,175 180 0
75 to 79 years 2,430 2,290 130 5
80 to 84 years 1,735 1,655 70 0
85 years and over 1,560 1,495 55 5
Median ageFootnote 3 39.9 39.7 43.2 18.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 80,545 74,635 5,525 220
Married or living with a common-law partner 49,015 45,010 3,785 105
Married (and not separated) 41,255 37,960 3,090 95
Living common law 7,760 7,055 695 15
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 31,530 29,635 1,740 110
Single (never legally married) 21,015 19,710 1,185 100
Separated 2,245 2,095 145 5
Divorced 4,190 3,945 240 5
Widowed 4,080 3,890 165 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 96,365 89,435 6,310 370
English only 76,185 76,185 0 0
French only 315 0 315 0
English and French 19,600 13,235 6,000 370
Neither English nor French 260 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 96,365 89,440 6,310 370
Single responses 95,310 88,630 6,235 200
English 84,145 84,140 5 0
French 6,345 170 6,180 0
Non-official languages 4,820 4,320 55 205
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 30 30 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 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 25 25 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 4,575 4,090 55 200
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 20 15 0 0
Arabic 445 360 15 45
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5
Bengali 95 95 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 60 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 470 420 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 40 35 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 0
Danish 30 25 0 0
Dutch 220 215 0 10
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 5 10 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 415 390 5 15
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0
Hindi 95 90 0 0
Hungarian 50 45 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 70 60 0 5
Japanese 40 40 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 555 505 0 15
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 180 150 0 10
Marathi 15 15 0 5
Nepali 45 25 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 225 210 0 5
Polish 75 65 0 5
Portuguese 60 55 0 0
Romanian 85 75 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 10 5 5
Russian 155 140 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 15 0 10 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 75 65 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 30 25 0 5
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 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 265 230 5 25
Swahili 35 25 10 5
Swedish 20 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 80 80 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0
Telugu 20 15 0 0
Thai 25 30 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 30 25 0 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 5
Urdu 70 65 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 215 195 0 0
Multiple responses 1,055 810 75 170
English and French 645 420 65 160
English and non-official language 370 370 0 0
French and non-official language 20 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 96,365 89,435 6,315 370
Single responses 95,210 88,725 6,060 180
English 89,105 86,515 2,590 0
French 3,580 115 3,465 0
Non-official languages 2,520 2,090 5 180
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 2,455 2,045 5 180
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 10 0 0
Arabic 225 155 0 40
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 60 55 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 5 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 360 315 0 5
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 5
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 25 20 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 5
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 80 65 0 15
Greek 5 0 0 5
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0
Hungarian 5 10 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 15 10 5 0
Japanese 20 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 475 430 0 10
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 20 15 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 145 115 0 10
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 35 20 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 170 160 0 5
Polish 30 20 0 5
Portuguese 20 15 0 5
Romanian 45 30 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 5
Russian 100 80 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 65 60 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 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 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 135 100 0 20
Swahili 10 5 0 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 15 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 40 30 0 0
Vietnamese 30 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 60 45 0 0
Multiple responses 1,150 715 250 190
English and French 505 90 240 170
English and non-official language 615 610 5 0
French and non-official language 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 35 15 0 20
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 96,365 89,440 6,310 370
None 88,310 84,575 3,285 235
Single responses 7,905 4,760 3,005 105
English 2,760 1,040 1,615 80
French 3,340 2,015 1,315 10
Non-official languages 1,805 1,710 75 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 40 35 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 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 35 35 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,535 1,440 70 15
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 190 175 15 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 5 0
Bengali 20 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 100 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 100 90 0 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 175 170 5 5
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 20 0 0
Hindi 45 45 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 25 25 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 50 50 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 40 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 5 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 20 15 0 5
Romanian 30 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 5 0 0
Russian 40 40 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 10 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 15 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 170 160 10 0
Swahili 50 30 10 5
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 5
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 235 230 0 0
Multiple responses 150 105 25 25
English and French 25 0 0 20
English and non-official language 35 20 20 0
French and non-official language 90 85 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 96,365 89,440 6,310 375
English 89,435 89,440 0 0
French 6,315 0 6,310 0
English and French 375 0 0 375
Neither English nor French 245 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 6,495 0 6,310 185
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 6.7 0.0 100.0 49.3

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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Footnote 2

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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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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 13

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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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 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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Footnote 19

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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