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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), Mother Tongue (4A), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , mother tongue , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Belleville
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 91,400 88,735 2,330 125
0 to 4 years 4,845 4,715 95 10
5 to 9 years 4,660 4,550 90 10
10 to 14 years 5,095 4,975 90 25
15 to 19 years 6,235 6,110 110 15
20 to 24 years 5,545 5,415 125 5
25 to 29 years 5,305 5,135 155 10
30 to 34 years 5,185 4,995 175 10
35 to 39 years 5,105 4,905 185 10
40 to 44 years 5,825 5,600 200 5
45 to 49 years 7,585 7,315 245 10
50 to 54 years 7,475 7,250 210 5
55 to 59 years 6,510 6,375 125 5
60 to 64 years 6,060 5,920 125 5
65 to 69 years 4,690 4,540 130 5
70 to 74 years 3,895 3,760 115 5
75 to 79 years 3,145 3,045 80 0
80 to 84 years 2,315 2,245 55 0
85 years and over 1,930 1,880 30 5
Median ageFootnote 3 43.2 43.2 43.5 22.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 76,800 74,490 2,050 80
Married or living with a common-law partner 45,390 43,880 1,365 40
Married (and not separated) 36,900 35,755 1,010 35
Living common law 8,490 8,125 360 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 31,410 30,615 680 45
Single (never legally married) 18,375 17,940 375 35
Separated 2,660 2,595 60 5
Divorced 5,010 4,875 130 5
Widowed 5,365 5,200 115 10
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 91,405 88,735 2,330 130
English only 84,390 84,390 0 0
French only 155 0 160 0
English and French 6,610 4,310 2,170 130
Neither English nor French 250 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 91,400 88,730 2,330 130
Single responses 90,780 88,185 2,295 85
English 83,790 83,785 0 0
French 2,420 140 2,270 0
Non-official languages 4,575 4,260 15 85
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 5 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 5 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 4,450 4,150 20 80
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 80 75 0 5
Armenian 15 15 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 10 15 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 95 65 5 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 250 205 5 5
Creoles 5 5 0 5
Croatian 30 30 0 0
Czech 40 40 0 5
Danish 30 35 0 0
Dutch 670 665 0 5
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 45 50 0 0
Flemish 15 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 535 525 0 5
Greek 240 230 0 0
Gujarati 65 55 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0
Hindi 25 20 0 0
Hungarian 75 75 0 0
Ilocano 15 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 255 235 0 10
Japanese 20 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 175 155 0 5
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 15 20 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 90 75 5 5
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 65 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 35 0 5
Polish 150 145 0 5
Portuguese 140 130 0 5
Romanian 15 20 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 45 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 30 25 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 10 15 0 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 305 275 5 10
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 110 110 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 50 35 0 5
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 15 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 70 55 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 5
Ukrainian 80 80 0 0
Urdu 65 65 0 0
Vietnamese 120 105 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 110 95 0 0
Multiple responses 625 550 35 45
English and French 240 175 20 40
English and non-official language 350 350 0 0
French and non-official language 20 10 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 91,400 88,735 2,330 130
Single responses 90,600 88,070 2,245 75
English 87,850 86,710 1,140 0
French 1,135 35 1,100 0
Non-official languages 1,620 1,330 5 75
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 1,550 1,275 5 75
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0
Arabic 20 10 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 55 30 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 155 115 0 5
Creoles 5 0 0 5
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 45 45 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 50 45 0 5
Greek 90 85 0 0
Gujarati 45 40 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 10 15 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 90 70 0 10
Japanese 10 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 130 110 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 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 65 50 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 35 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 0
Polish 40 35 0 5
Portuguese 40 35 0 0
Romanian 5 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 55 35 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 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 130 100 0 10
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 40 35 0 5
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0
Telugu 5 10 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 45 35 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 50 45 0 0
Vietnamese 80 70 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 70 55 0 0
Multiple responses 800 665 85 50
English and French 135 25 70 45
English and non-official language 630 635 0 0
French and non-official language 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 5 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 91,400 88,735 2,330 130
None 87,340 85,775 1,285 75
Single responses 3,985 2,895 1,025 50
English 1,250 635 560 45
French 1,085 625 455 0
Non-official languages 1,650 1,630 10 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 15 10 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 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 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 5 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,530 1,515 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 50 50 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 60 0 0
Creoles 10 5 5 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 195 195 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 190 190 0 0
Greek 95 90 0 0
Gujarati 25 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0
Hungarian 35 30 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 75 75 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 35 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 45 45 0 0
Portuguese 55 55 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. 45 35 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 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 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 185 175 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 10 15 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 30 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 105 105 0 0
Multiple responses 80 60 15 5
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 15 10 5 0
French and non-official language 55 50 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 91,405 88,735 2,330 130
English 88,730 88,735 0 0
French 2,330 0 2,325 0
English and French 130 0 0 130
Neither English nor French 215 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 2,390 0 2,330 65
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 2.6 0.0 100.0 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Language groups are defined as follows: 'English' includes respondents who reported English only or English and one non-official language; 'French' includes respondents who reported French only or French and one non-official language; 'English and French' includes respondents who reported English and French, with or without one non-official language.

'Total' category includes all groups mentioned as well as respondents who reported a non-official language as their only mother tongue.

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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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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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Footnote 10

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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Footnote 14

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 17

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-XCB2011058.

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