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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 La Prairie, 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 23,060 1,395 20,885 670
0 to 4 years 1,670 100 1,470 45
5 to 9 years 1,580 75 1,460 40
10 to 14 years 1,485 65 1,380 40
15 to 19 years 1,585 65 1,465 55
20 to 24 years 1,180 70 1,060 45
25 to 29 years 1,050 65 955 35
30 to 34 years 1,595 120 1,400 75
35 to 39 years 1,835 130 1,615 95
40 to 44 years 1,920 150 1,680 90
45 to 49 years 2,065 145 1,850 60
50 to 54 years 1,910 115 1,765 30
55 to 59 years 1,430 75 1,330 20
60 to 64 years 1,240 85 1,130 25
65 to 69 years 950 55 880 10
70 to 74 years 635 35 580 5
75 to 79 years 445 20 415 5
80 to 84 years 305 15 285 5
85 years and over 180 10 160 0
Median ageFootnote 2 38.8 40.1 38.9 35.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 18,330 1,150 16,565 540
Married or living with a common-law partner 11,310 785 10,110 380
Married (and not separated) 6,770 600 5,780 345
Living common law 4,545 180 4,330 30
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 7,015 370 6,455 165
Single (never legally married) 4,855 235 4,485 140
Separated 255 20 230 10
Divorced 1,210 80 1,115 15
Widowed 690 35 630 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 23,065 1,390 20,885 670
English only 370 375 0 0
French only 10,090 0 10,085 0
English and French 12,480 1,015 10,790 675
Neither English nor French 120 0 5 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 23,060 1,395 20,885 670
Single responses 22,655 1,315 20,670 550
English 925 915 10 0
French 19,780 5 19,775 0
Non-official languages 1,950 400 880 555
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 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 6 1,940 395 870 555
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 225 25 130 65
Armenian 15 10 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 10 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 5 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 20 5 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 180 70 20 60
Creoles 55 0 40 10
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 30 15 5 5
Greek 80 50 5 25
Gujarati 5 5 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 5 5
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 120 45 60 15
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 0 15 10
Korean 15 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 0 10 10
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 20 20 15
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 20 0 25 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 55 5 15 25
Polish 25 10 15 0
Portuguese 200 25 125 45
Romanian 175 0 70 85
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 50 5 25 15
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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 5 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 5 0
Spanish 360 30 210 100
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 10 10 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 5
Ukrainian 15 0 5 5
Urdu 10 5 0 5
Vietnamese 60 10 15 25
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 410 75 215 120
English and French 245 40 100 100
English and non-official language 35 30 0 0
French and non-official language 105 0 105 0
English, French and non-official language 30 5 10 20
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 23,065 1,390 20,880 675
Single responses 22,510 1,295 20,595 500
English 1,065 920 145 0
French 20,355 215 20,145 0
Non-official languages 1,090 160 305 505
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 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 10 1,085 165 305 505
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 100 10 20 60
Armenian 5 0 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 0 0 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 30 15 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 150 55 15 55
Creoles 25 0 5 10
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 5 0 0 5
Greek 40 10 0 20
Gujarati 10 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 5
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 0 10 5
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 0 10 10
Korean 10 5 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 0 0 5
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 20 10 15
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 45 5 10 25
Polish 10 0 5 5
Portuguese 80 0 35 35
Romanian 130 0 35 80
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 5 20 20
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 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 5 0 5
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 230 10 105 95
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 0 5 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 45 10 10 25
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 555 95 285 170
English and French 250 35 100 115
English and non-official language 60 55 0 0
French and non-official language 180 0 180 0
English, French and non-official language 70 0 10 55
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 23,060 1,390 20,880 670
None 19,695 710 18,545 330
Single responses 3,095 625 2,225 240
English 1,800 190 1,540 70
French 745 305 280 155
Non-official languages 550 125 405 20
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 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 14 535 125 390 15
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 85 10 75 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 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 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 5 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 5 0
Creoles 40 0 40 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 10 10 5 5
Greek 30 20 5 0
Gujarati 5 0 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 50 25 20 5
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 10 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 0 10 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 5 5
Polish 5 5 5 0
Portuguese 65 5 60 0
Romanian 20 0 25 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 0 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 125 15 110 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 15 0 15 0
Multiple responses 275 55 115 105
English and French 115 5 10 95
English and non-official language 110 10 105 0
French and non-official language 45 45 0 5
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 23,060 1,390 20,885 670
English 1,390 1,390 0 0
French 20,885 0 20,880 0
English and French 670 0 0 670
Neither English nor French 115 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 1,730 1,395 0 335
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 7.5 100.0 0.0 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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Footnote 6

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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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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