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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 Brossard, 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 78,835 19,645 46,730 9,380
0 to 4 years 4,245 910 2,355 285
5 to 9 years 3,900 865 2,565 410
10 to 14 years 4,070 875 2,570 615
15 to 19 years 4,965 1,120 2,845 970
20 to 24 years 5,185 1,240 2,880 1,045
25 to 29 years 5,310 1,380 2,990 905
30 to 34 years 5,490 1,540 3,000 900
35 to 39 years 5,165 1,555 2,750 775
40 to 44 years 5,270 1,595 2,790 720
45 to 49 years 5,615 1,505 3,170 660
50 to 54 years 5,895 1,465 3,580 570
55 to 59 years 5,870 1,485 3,580 540
60 to 64 years 5,610 1,435 3,515 400
65 to 69 years 4,550 1,020 3,040 265
70 to 74 years 3,155 750 2,060 165
75 to 79 years 2,215 465 1,470 85
80 to 84 years 1,420 290 945 40
85 years and over 910 155 605 15
Median ageFootnote 2 41.0 41.0 42.5 32.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 66,620 16,995 39,235 8,065
Married or living with a common-law partner 39,880 10,725 23,095 4,400
Married (and not separated) 31,515 9,580 16,240 4,090
Living common law 8,360 1,145 6,855 310
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 26,740 6,275 16,145 3,670
Single (never legally married) 18,565 4,455 10,840 3,170
Separated 1,015 285 585 100
Divorced 4,045 925 2,715 265
Widowed 3,110 610 2,005 135
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 78,835 19,645 46,730 9,380
English only 8,850 8,850 0 0
French only 18,250 0 18,255 0
English and French 48,570 10,765 28,435 9,370
Neither English nor French 3,165 25 50 5
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 78,835 19,645 46,730 9,380
Single responses 75,460 18,525 45,245 8,615
English 9,460 9,435 30 0
French 37,340 45 37,295 0
Non-official languages 28,665 9,045 7,925 8,615
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 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 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 28,435 8,990 7,800 8,570
African languages, n.i.e. 20 0 10 5
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 45 5 15 15
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 3,380 665 1,570 955
Armenian 280 100 65 95
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 5 5 5
Bengali 350 215 15 95
Berber languages (Kabyle) 45 5 30 10
Bisayan languages 30 25 5 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 5
Bulgarian 315 55 90 150
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 2,425 875 215 725
Chinese, n.o.s. 4,570 1,845 560 1,190
Creoles 935 70 555 290
Croatian 30 15 5 10
Czech 30 20 5 10
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 40 25 10 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 10 0 5 5
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 195 135 35 25
Greek 1,275 810 65 315
Gujarati 135 80 30 20
Hakka 30 10 5 5
Hebrew 15 5 10 5
Hindi 240 180 10 40
Hungarian 130 80 10 40
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 5
Italian 745 435 180 115
Japanese 60 30 10 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 140 10 95 20
Korean 205 80 10 85
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 65 10 40 10
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 25 20 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 5
Malayalam 35 30 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 985 425 120 265
Marathi 10 15 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 5 35 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 70 5 60 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 350 210 15 105
Pashto 10 5 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 1,780 295 570 620
Polish 340 160 75 100
Portuguese 805 230 315 235
Romanian 1,210 70 455 640
Rundi (Kirundi) 30 0 25 0
Russian 515 130 145 210
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 20 0 15 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 35 20 5 10
Serbo-Croatian 20 5 5 5
Shanghainese 15 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 20 15 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5
Slovak 35 15 0 15
Slovenian 35 25 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 5
Spanish 3,190 260 1,645 1,085
Swahili 15 0 10 0
Swedish 5 0 5 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 305 260 5 35
Taiwanese 80 45 5 10
Tamil 165 105 5 40
Telugu 30 30 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 25 15 5 5
Turkish 165 70 25 40
Ukrainian 95 55 15 25
Urdu 590 385 20 145
Vietnamese 1,470 185 525 670
Yiddish 5 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 225 50 120 40
Multiple responses 3,370 1,120 1,485 765
English and French 1,135 325 340 475
English and non-official language 710 700 15 0
French and non-official language 1,040 10 1,030 0
English, French and non-official language 485 90 105 295
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 78,835 19,645 46,730 9,380
Single responses 72,645 17,755 43,920 7,885
English 13,525 12,425 1,105 0
French 39,820 590 39,235 0
Non-official languages 19,295 4,745 3,580 7,890
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 0 0 5
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 19,245 4,740 3,565 7,870
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 35 0 15 10
Amharic 5 0 0 5
Arabic 1,820 345 480 820
Armenian 135 20 25 70
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Bengali 225 120 5 80
Berber languages (Kabyle) 20 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 255 25 65 150
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 2,190 745 145 675
Chinese, n.o.s. 3,845 1,415 350 1,125
Creoles 405 15 80 285
Croatian 10 5 0 5
Czech 15 0 0 10
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 30 15 0 15
Greek 680 280 30 290
Gujarati 65 35 5 15
Hakka 5 0 0 5
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 115 65 5 40
Hungarian 60 25 0 25
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 155 10 45 80
Japanese 35 10 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 0 35 25
Korean 170 55 15 70
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 25 0 15 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 860 360 90 240
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 0 5 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 210 105 0 80
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 1,415 205 355 555
Polish 175 45 25 95
Portuguese 420 25 140 220
Romanian 905 10 225 630
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5
Russian 420 75 105 210
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 25 5 5 10
Serbo-Croatian 10 0 0 5
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 0 5 0
Sindhi 15 5 0 10
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 5 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
Slovak 10 0 0 5
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 5
Spanish 2,315 100 975 1,040
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 125 95 0 30
Taiwanese 50 20 5 10
Tamil 115 65 0 40
Telugu 15 10 0 5
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 5
Turkish 135 55 20 40
Ukrainian 25 5 0 25
Urdu 370 190 10 130
Vietnamese 1,085 120 250 620
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 50 5 20 20
Multiple responses 6,190 1,885 2,810 1,490
English and French 1,390 250 535 605
English and non-official language 1,515 1,490 20 0
French and non-official language 2,100 25 2,070 0
English, French and non-official language 1,185 120 180 885
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 78,830 19,645 46,730 9,380
None 54,785 11,885 35,535 4,520
Single responses 21,430 7,190 10,555 3,470
English 8,105 2,010 4,810 1,240
French 6,760 2,380 2,375 1,940
Non-official languages 6,560 2,795 3,375 290
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 0 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 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 6,445 2,780 3,285 285
African languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 1,055 210 825 20
Armenian 65 40 15 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 10 10 0
Bengali 75 70 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 10 5 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 40 20 20 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 235 140 65 25
Chinese, n.o.s. 450 260 155 25
Creoles 615 40 550 15
Croatian 10 5 5 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 100 70 25 5
Greek 415 375 35 10
Gujarati 75 30 35 5
Hakka 25 5 5 15
Hebrew 5 5 0 5
Hindi 110 90 5 10
Hungarian 35 20 10 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Italian 260 170 80 10
Japanese 25 15 10 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 5 25 0
Korean 20 20 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 20 0 20 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 20 0 20 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 20 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 170 80 40 25
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 0 20 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 40 0 30 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 115 100 0 10
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 150 40 100 5
Polish 75 50 25 0
Portuguese 240 115 125 0
Romanian 185 30 145 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 0 20 0
Russian 90 45 40 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Sindhi 15 10 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 5 0 5 0
Spanish 695 135 540 20
Swahili 15 5 10 0
Swedish 5 0 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 125 120 5 5
Taiwanese 30 15 0 5
Tamil 40 35 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 25 15 10 0
Ukrainian 15 15 5 0
Urdu 195 180 15 5
Vietnamese 270 50 200 15
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 115 15 90 5
Multiple responses 2,620 570 635 1,385
English and French 1,515 75 95 1,325
English and non-official language 570 50 505 20
French and non-official language 495 440 40 15
English, French and non-official language 40 5 0 30
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 78,835 19,645 46,730 9,380
English 19,645 19,645 0 0
French 46,730 0 46,730 0
English and French 9,380 0 0 9,380
Neither English nor French 3,080 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 24,335 19,645 0 4,685
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 30.9 100.0 0.0 49.9

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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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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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