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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 Peterborough
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 133,495 131,815 1,310 135
0 to 4 years 6,290 6,205 35 10
5 to 9 years 6,015 5,970 35 10
10 to 14 years 6,905 6,845 40 15
15 to 19 years 8,660 8,585 55 20
20 to 24 years 9,355 9,290 40 15
25 to 29 years 7,740 7,655 70 10
30 to 34 years 6,615 6,550 55 5
35 to 39 years 6,770 6,680 75 0
40 to 44 years 7,720 7,605 100 10
45 to 49 years 9,970 9,820 130 5
50 to 54 years 10,845 10,700 120 10
55 to 59 years 10,515 10,390 95 10
60 to 64 years 10,090 9,965 100 5
65 to 69 years 7,905 7,760 125 5
70 to 74 years 5,900 5,790 85 0
75 to 79 years 5,020 4,935 65 5
80 to 84 years 3,840 3,775 50 0
85 years and over 3,340 3,300 30 5
Median ageFootnote 2 45.4 45.3 50.7 25.3
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 114,285 112,800 1,200 105
Married or living with a common-law partner 67,915 66,925 845 55
Married (and not separated) 56,715 55,870 705 50
Living common law 11,200 11,055 140 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 46,365 45,875 360 50
Single (never legally married) 28,190 27,945 175 40
Separated 3,660 3,620 30 5
Divorced 6,785 6,705 65 5
Widowed 7,730 7,610 90 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 133,495 131,815 1,310 140
English only 124,685 124,685 0 0
French only 35 0 35 0
English and French 8,515 7,100 1,275 140
Neither English nor French 265 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 133,495 131,815 1,310 140
Single responses 132,755 131,135 1,285 100
English 124,320 124,320 5 0
French 1,435 165 1,265 0
Non-official languages 7,000 6,650 20 100
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 95 95 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 80 85 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 6,795 6,460 15 100
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 90 80 5 5
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 165 150 0 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0
Bengali 40 40 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 90 85 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 335 285 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 0
Croatian 35 35 0 0
Czech 90 85 0 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 765 760 0 5
Estonian 40 35 0 5
Finnish 110 110 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0
German 1,130 1,115 0 0
Greek 110 105 0 0
Gujarati 180 160 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 10 0 0
Hindi 75 70 0 0
Hungarian 145 140 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 420 410 0 5
Japanese 40 40 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 65 0 0
Korean 205 190 0 5
Kurdish 10 10 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 20 15 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 20 20 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 30 35 0 0
Mandarin 115 100 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 10 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 20 15 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 80 75 0 0
Pashto 30 20 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 110 100 0 5
Polish 535 515 0 20
Portuguese 125 120 0 0
Romanian 60 50 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 120 105 0 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 25 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 10 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 30 35 0 0
Slovenian 25 20 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0
Spanish 335 315 0 10
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 115 115 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 65 60 0 5
Telugu 20 25 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 20 20 0 5
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 135 135 0 0
Urdu 120 115 0 0
Vietnamese 135 115 0 5
Yiddish 10 10 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 115 100 0 0
Multiple responses 740 680 25 40
English and French 250 195 15 35
English and non-official language 445 445 0 0
French and non-official language 35 25 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 133,495 131,815 1,310 135
Single responses 132,450 130,860 1,260 90
English 129,845 128,910 935 0
French 385 60 325 0
Non-official languages 2,215 1,890 5 90
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 20 20 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 25 25 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 2,150 1,835 5 90
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 35 20 0 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 85 70 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 25 25 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 45 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 215 175 0 5
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 55 50 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 145 135 0 0
Greek 15 10 0 5
Gujarati 95 75 5 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 90 85 0 5
Japanese 10 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 20 0 0
Korean 175 160 0 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 80 70 0 5
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 35 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 55 45 0 5
Polish 195 170 0 15
Portuguese 30 25 0 0
Romanian 20 15 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 45 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 30 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 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 140 125 0 10
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 40 35 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 25 20 0 5
Telugu 10 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 10 0 0
Urdu 90 80 0 0
Vietnamese 75 55 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 45 30 0 0
Multiple responses 1,050 950 45 50
English and French 120 45 40 35
English and non-official language 895 900 5 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 133,495 131,815 1,310 140
None 128,435 127,370 770 90
Single responses 4,945 4,340 530 45
English 1,170 940 165 40
French 1,260 910 350 5
Non-official languages 2,515 2,490 15 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 160 160 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 155 160 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 2,270 2,250 20 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 40 45 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 50 50 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 65 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 215 210 0 0
Estonian 5 10 0 0
Finnish 45 45 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 350 355 0 0
Greek 55 60 0 0
Gujarati 45 50 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0
Hungarian 50 55 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 140 140 0 0
Japanese 20 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 35 35 0 0
Korean 30 25 0 0
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 10 10 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 10 5 0 0
Mandarin 35 35 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 35 0 0
Polish 170 165 0 0
Portuguese 60 60 5 0
Romanian 25 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 40 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 225 225 5 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 40 40 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 25 30 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 10 10 5 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 35 35 0 0
Urdu 20 25 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 80 85 0 0
Multiple responses 115 105 10 5
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 20 15 5 0
French and non-official language 90 85 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 133,495 131,815 1,310 140
English 131,815 131,815 0 0
French 1,310 0 1,310 0
English and French 135 0 0 140
Neither English nor French 235 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,380 0 1,310 70
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.0 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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Footnote 14

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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