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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 Windsor
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 316,515 299,960 9,815 2,235
0 to 4 years 17,330 16,425 155 105
5 to 9 years 18,835 18,215 245 310
10 to 14 years 20,095 19,455 295 290
15 to 19 years 22,040 21,380 365 245
20 to 24 years 21,105 20,575 315 155
25 to 29 years 17,940 17,455 315 110
30 to 34 years 18,375 17,780 375 135
35 to 39 years 20,865 20,110 495 125
40 to 44 years 23,020 22,090 585 190
45 to 49 years 25,590 24,350 860 155
50 to 54 years 24,775 23,515 910 120
55 to 59 years 21,400 20,140 880 90
60 to 64 years 19,435 18,110 960 60
65 to 69 years 14,245 12,945 890 35
70 to 74 years 11,030 9,760 685 35
75 to 79 years 8,650 7,515 605 40
80 to 84 years 6,530 5,625 515 20
85 years and over 5,265 4,525 375 15
Median ageFootnote 3 40.4 39.7 55.0 25.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 260,260 245,870 9,125 1,530
Married or living with a common-law partner 146,695 137,865 5,770 810
Married (and not separated) 129,990 121,815 5,195 775
Living common law 16,710 16,055 575 30
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 113,560 108,000 3,355 725
Single (never legally married) 73,240 70,925 1,500 560
Separated 8,140 7,680 295 50
Divorced 17,075 16,245 630 70
Widowed 15,110 13,145 935 40
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 316,515 299,965 9,815 2,235
English only 279,865 279,860 0 0
French only 410 0 410 0
English and French 31,650 20,025 9,390 2,230
Neither English nor French 4,595 75 15 5
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 316,515 299,965 9,820 2,235
Single responses 309,545 293,605 9,525 1,905
English 230,845 230,835 15 0
French 10,565 1,350 9,215 0
Non-official languages 68,140 61,425 305 1,910
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 15 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 5 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 15 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 67,770 61,105 290 1,900
African languages, n.i.e. 200 185 0 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 55 55 0 0
Albanian 1,075 960 0 40
Amharic 125 120 0 0
Arabic 10,520 9,000 80 640
Armenian 225 200 5 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 55 40 5 5
Bengali 625 570 0 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 65 65 0 0
Bosnian 325 310 5 5
Bulgarian 95 95 0 5
Burmese 15 15 0 0
Cantonese 1,200 990 5 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 3,320 2,800 0 40
Creoles 170 80 25 55
Croatian 1,785 1,735 0 10
Czech 185 180 0 0
Danish 65 65 0 0
Dutch 475 465 5 5
Estonian 10 15 0 0
Finnish 135 135 0 0
Flemish 55 50 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0
German 2,185 2,135 0 20
Greek 1,060 1,015 0 10
Gujarati 600 545 0 5
Hakka 10 5 0 0
Hebrew 30 30 0 5
Hindi 585 565 0 5
Hungarian 1,335 1,265 0 20
Ilocano 60 60 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 0
Italian 9,715 9,080 10 95
Japanese 65 60 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 415 345 0 5
Korean 390 350 0 5
Kurdish 130 110 0 0
Lao 155 135 0 5
Latvian 15 15 0 0
Lingala 20 5 10 5
Lithuanian 70 70 0 0
Macedonian 1,175 1,115 0 15
Malay 45 50 0 0
Malayalam 140 135 0 0
Maltese 225 220 0 5
Mandarin 1,080 925 0 30
Marathi 80 80 0 0
Nepali 95 60 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 175 165 5 5
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 45 40 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 2,070 1,810 0 45
Pashto 35 30 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 595 550 0 20
Polish 3,255 3,040 5 80
Portuguese 715 660 5 15
Romanian 2,360 1,975 10 275
Rundi (Kirundi) 40 10 15 10
Russian 530 475 0 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 95 45 30 20
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 2,075 1,760 5 35
Serbian 2,990 2,800 0 60
Serbo-Croatian 215 205 0 5
Shanghainese 10 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 15 0 0
Sindhi 25 20 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 125 120 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 155 90 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 140 135 0 0
Slovak 765 745 0 5
Slovenian 190 180 0 0
Somali 575 465 0 0
Spanish 2,855 2,525 15 130
Swahili 135 65 30 25
Swedish 20 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,620 1,600 0 0
Taiwanese 20 20 0 0
Tamil 260 245 0 5
Telugu 120 115 0 0
Thai 35 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 125 110 0 0
Turkish 395 370 0 5
Ukrainian 640 620 0 5
Urdu 1,900 1,800 0 25
Vietnamese 1,835 1,605 5 30
Yiddish 30 30 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 350 300 10 5
Multiple responses 6,970 6,355 290 325
English and French 1,540 1,255 55 220
English and non-official language 4,820 4,815 5 0
French and non-official language 380 160 220 0
English, French and non-official language 235 120 5 105
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 316,520 299,965 9,815 2,235
Single responses 304,405 288,820 9,300 1,780
English 266,230 259,845 6,385 0
French 2,960 245 2,715 0
Non-official languages 35,215 28,730 195 1,785
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 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 35,080 28,640 195 1,775
African languages, n.i.e. 110 95 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0
Albanian 570 450 5 35
Amharic 70 70 0 0
Arabic 6,415 4,920 95 590
Armenian 105 80 5 10
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 430 375 0 25
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 180 160 0 5
Bulgarian 50 50 0 5
Burmese 15 10 0 0
Cantonese 890 680 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,365 1,855 5 35
Creoles 95 20 10 50
Croatian 685 635 0 10
Czech 50 50 5 5
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 15 10 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 35 35 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 330 295 0 15
Greek 440 395 0 5
Gujarati 375 325 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 315 300 0 5
Hungarian 455 390 0 15
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Italian 3,395 2,765 10 90
Japanese 25 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 265 195 0 5
Korean 275 245 0 5
Kurdish 90 70 0 0
Lao 95 80 5 5
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 540 475 5 15
Malay 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 75 70 0 0
Maltese 40 35 0 5
Mandarin 890 720 0 25
Marathi 40 35 0 0
Nepali 85 55 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 35 30 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,435 1,185 0 40
Pashto 20 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 365 320 0 20
Polish 1,595 1,385 0 75
Portuguese 200 145 0 10
Romanian 1,370 995 5 260
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 15 0 5
Russian 310 250 0 25
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 25 5 5 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 1,440 1,145 0 25
Serbian 1,685 1,505 0 55
Serbo-Croatian 120 110 0 0
Shanghainese 10 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 65 40 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 60 60 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 145 75 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 40 30 0 0
Slovak 195 180 0 5
Slovenian 40 40 0 5
Somali 390 290 0 5
Spanish 1,525 1,205 10 125
Swahili 100 30 15 40
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 710 690 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 140 125 0 0
Telugu 45 40 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 80 70 0 0
Turkish 200 180 0 5
Ukrainian 120 105 0 5
Urdu 1,205 1,090 0 35
Vietnamese 1,375 1,155 10 25
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 125 85 5 5
Multiple responses 12,115 11,145 520 455
English and French 750 165 345 240
English and non-official language 10,905 10,855 50 0
French and non-official language 125 45 85 0
English, French and non-official language 335 85 40 210
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 316,520 299,965 9,815 2,235
None 270,445 259,450 5,775 1,100
Single responses 44,990 39,710 3,925 970
English 16,205 13,730 1,420 845
French 6,475 4,185 2,240 50
Non-official languages 22,305 21,790 270 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 15 10 5 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 10 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 22,060 21,555 260 70
African languages, n.i.e. 65 50 5 5
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 45 50 0 0
Albanian 330 330 0 0
Amharic 45 40 0 0
Arabic 3,925 3,765 80 10
Armenian 75 75 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 45 30 5 10
Bengali 120 115 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 25 20 0 0
Bosnian 100 100 0 0
Bulgarian 40 40 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 325 315 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 645 635 0 0
Creoles 90 70 20 5
Croatian 695 690 0 0
Czech 50 50 0 0
Danish 20 25 0 0
Dutch 120 115 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0
Finnish 40 35 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 745 735 5 0
Greek 475 475 0 0
Gujarati 115 115 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 5
Hebrew 20 20 0 0
Hindi 345 340 0 0
Hungarian 425 420 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 3,770 3,750 20 5
Japanese 45 45 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 105 105 0 0
Korean 60 65 0 0
Kurdish 20 25 0 0
Lao 35 40 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0
Lingala 25 5 15 5
Lithuanian 30 30 0 0
Macedonian 440 430 0 5
Malay 20 20 0 0
Malayalam 50 50 0 0
Maltese 75 75 0 0
Mandarin 180 170 0 0
Marathi 30 25 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 150 145 5 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 405 400 5 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 130 130 0 0
Polish 945 945 5 0
Portuguese 360 355 0 0
Romanian 625 615 5 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 5 0
Russian 160 155 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 45 20 20 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 420 390 0 0
Serbian 930 925 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 60 55 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 50 50 5 0
Sindhi 10 5 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 55 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0
Slovak 230 230 0 0
Slovenian 60 60 0 0
Somali 145 145 0 0
Spanish 1,240 1,200 30 5
Swahili 70 45 25 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 625 625 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 95 95 0 0
Telugu 50 50 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 40 35 0 0
Turkish 155 150 0 0
Ukrainian 205 200 0 0
Urdu 465 465 0 0
Vietnamese 350 340 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 235 230 10 5
Multiple responses 1,085 805 110 165
English and French 205 35 20 150
English and non-official language 260 210 40 5
French and non-official language 620 560 55 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 316,520 299,965 9,815 2,235
English 299,960 299,965 0 0
French 9,815 0 9,815 0
English and French 2,235 0 0 2,235
Neither English nor French 4,505 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 10,935 0 9,815 1,120
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 3.5 0.0 100.0 50.1

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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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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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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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