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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 St. Albert, CYFootnote 1
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 60,595 58,720 1,675 115
0 to 4 years 3,380 3,320 30 5
5 to 9 years 3,655 3,590 50 15
10 to 14 years 4,200 4,110 70 20
15 to 19 years 4,550 4,480 60 10
20 to 24 years 4,080 4,015 60 15
25 to 29 years 3,335 3,285 40 5
30 to 34 years 3,415 3,320 80 10
35 to 39 years 3,905 3,810 90 5
40 to 44 years 4,415 4,305 100 10
45 to 49 years 5,165 4,990 160 5
50 to 54 years 5,155 4,970 170 5
55 to 59 years 4,520 4,330 175 5
60 to 64 years 3,820 3,650 160 0
65 to 69 years 2,590 2,455 130 5
70 to 74 years 1,730 1,630 95 0
75 to 79 years 1,210 1,115 90 0
80 to 84 years 865 795 65 0
85 years and over 590 545 40 0
Median ageFootnote 3 39.7 39.3 52.4 22.3
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 49,355 47,700 1,520 75
Married or living with a common-law partner 31,610 30,450 1,085 45
Married (and not separated) 28,180 27,125 985 40
Living common law 3,430 3,325 100 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 17,745 17,255 440 35
Single (never legally married) 12,015 11,775 205 30
Separated 1,010 975 25 5
Divorced 2,810 2,720 85 5
Widowed 1,915 1,780 120 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 60,595 58,720 1,670 115
English only 53,900 53,895 0 0
French only 50 0 50 0
English and French 6,545 4,810 1,625 115
Neither English nor French 105 15 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 60,600 58,720 1,670 115
Single responses 60,020 58,190 1,660 75
English 53,135 53,135 0 0
French 1,840 195 1,650 0
Non-official languages 5,035 4,860 10 75
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 25 25 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 20 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 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 4,945 4,775 10 75
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 35 40 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 295 260 0 20
Armenian 5 0 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 135 130 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 155 150 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 70 65 0 0
Czech 45 45 0 5
Danish 55 50 0 0
Dutch 385 385 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 10 5 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 730 720 0 10
Greek 30 30 0 5
Gujarati 25 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 85 90 0 0
Hungarian 90 80 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 235 225 0 0
Japanese 30 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 50 50 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 40 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5
Norwegian 15 15 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 80 0 0
Pashto 10 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 65 60 0 0
Polish 270 265 0 5
Portuguese 110 110 0 0
Romanian 55 50 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 110 105 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
Serbian 20 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 30 30 0 5
Slovenian 10 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 300 280 0 5
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 10 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 440 435 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 5
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 550 540 0 10
Urdu 55 55 0 5
Vietnamese 45 45 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 65 60 0 5
Multiple responses 580 530 15 40
English and French 210 175 5 35
English and non-official language 340 340 5 0
French and non-official language 20 15 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 5 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 60,600 58,720 1,675 115
Single responses 59,930 58,155 1,620 65
English 58,125 57,030 1,095 0
French 535 15 525 0
Non-official languages 1,270 1,105 0 65
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 1,250 1,095 0 65
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 125 95 0 15
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 50 45 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 40 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 15 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 75 65 0 10
Greek 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 45 40 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 30 25 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 30 30 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
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 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 25 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 25 0 0
Polish 55 45 0 0
Portuguese 20 20 0 0
Romanian 20 20 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 40 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 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 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 115 95 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 195 190 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 5
Turkish 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 35 25 0 0
Urdu 35 25 0 5
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 20 10 0 5
Multiple responses 670 570 55 50
English and French 100 10 50 40
English and non-official language 555 555 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 60,595 58,720 1,675 115
None 56,670 55,540 980 65
Single responses 3,870 3,130 685 45
English 940 610 290 35
French 1,045 665 375 0
Non-official languages 1,880 1,860 15 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 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 15 1,835 1,815 20 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 155 160 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 5 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 35 35 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 70 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 30 30 0 0
Danish 20 25 0 0
Dutch 120 120 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 215 215 0 0
Greek 25 20 0 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 110 105 5 0
Japanese 15 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 40 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 20 0 0
Polish 85 85 0 0
Portuguese 45 45 0 0
Romanian 25 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 35 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 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 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 215 200 10 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 145 145 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 10 0 0
Ukrainian 135 130 5 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 10 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 30 30 0 0
Multiple responses 60 50 10 5
English and French 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 20 15 5 0
French and non-official language 35 30 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 60,595 58,720 1,675 115
English 58,720 58,720 0 0
French 1,675 0 1,675 0
English and French 110 0 0 115
Neither English nor French 85 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,730 0 1,670 55
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 2.9 0.0 99.7 47.8

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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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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Footnote 7

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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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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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-XCB2011053.

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