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Gimli, Manitoba (Rural municipality)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 5,845
Population in 20061 5,797
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 0.8
Total private dwellings2 4,515
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 2,749
Population density per square kilometre 18.3
Land area (square km) 319.25
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 5,845
0 to 4 years 185
5 to 9 years 195
10 to 14 years 260
15 to 19 years 285
15 years 55
16 years 55
17 years 50
18 years 65
19 years 70
20 to 24 years 200
25 to 29 years 175
30 to 34 years 195
35 to 39 years 225
40 to 44 years 250
45 to 49 years 390
50 to 54 years 415
55 to 59 years 590
60 to 64 years 660
65 to 69 years 570
70 to 74 years 450
75 to 79 years 365
80 to 84 years 235
85 years and over 190
Median age of the population5 56.2
% of the population aged 15 and over 89.1
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 5,210
Married or living with a common-law partner 3,485
Married (and not separated) 3,105
Living common law 380
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 1,720
Single (never legally married) 835
Separated 140
Divorced 270
Widowed 485
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 1,900
Size of census family: 2 persons 1,350
Size of census family: 3 persons 265
Size of census family: 4 persons 220
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 70
Total number of census families in private households8 1,900
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 1,710
Married couples 1,525
Without children at home 1,110
With children at home 410
1 child 180
2 children 165
3 or more children 60
Common-law couples 190
Without children at home 120
With children at home 70
1 child 35
2 children 30
3 or more children 5
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 190
Female parent 140
1 child 85
2 children 35
3 or more children 20
Male parent 50
1 child 30
2 children 15
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 1,115
Under six years of age 205
6 to 14 years 405
15 to 17 years 150
18 to 24 years 245
25 years and over 110
Average number of children at home per census family 0.6
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 5,720
Number of persons not in census families 990
Living with relatives9 65
Living with non-relatives only 90
Living alone 830
Number of census family persons 4,730
Average number of persons per census family 2.5
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 1,735
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 510
Living with relatives9 30
Living with non-relatives only 10
Living alone 470
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 1,225
Total number of private households by household type10 2,750
Census-family households 1,875
One-family-only households11 1,800
Couple-family households12 1,630
Without children 1,180
With children 450
Lone-parent-family households 170
Other family households13 75
One-family households with persons not in a census family 50
Couple-family households14 40
Without children 20
With children 15
Lone-parent-family households 15
Two-or-more-family households 25
Non-census-family households 875
One-person households 830
Two-or-more-person households 40
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 2,750
Single-detached house 2,210
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 50
Movable dwelling16 25
Other dwelling17 465
Semi-detached house 175
Row house 25
Apartment, duplex 5
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 260
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 2,750
1 person 835
2 persons 1,315
3 persons 275
4 persons 225
5 persons 65
6 or more persons 35
Number of persons in private households 5,720
Average number of persons in private households 2.1
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,755
  Single responses  5,685
    English  4,975
    French  95
    Non-official languages  615
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  5
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  5
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 495
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  10
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  10
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  5
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  5
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  20
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  120
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  5
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  5
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  15
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  10
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  5
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  35
        Portuguese  5
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  15
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  0
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  0
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  5
        Somali  0
        Spanish  10
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  5
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  200
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 115
  Multiple responses          65
    English and French  5
    English and non-official language  50
    French and non-official language  5
    English, French and non-official language 0
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,750
  English only 5,515
  French only 5
  English and French 225
  Neither English nor French 5
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,750
  English 5,665
  French 75
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 5
Official language minority (number)23 75
Official language minority (percentage)23 1.3
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,755
  Single responses 5,695
    English 5,595
    French 15
    Non-official languages 80
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        Atikamekw   0
        Cree, n.o.s. 0
        Dene 0
        Innu/Montagnais 0
        Inuktitut 0
        Mi'kmaq 0
        Ojibway 0
        Oji-Cree 0
        Stoney 0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 75
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 15
        Akan (Twi) 0
        Albanian 0
        Amharic 0
        Arabic 5
        Armenian 0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0
        Bengali 0
        Berber languages (Kabyle) 0
        Bisayan languages 0
        Bosnian 0
        Bulgarian 0
        Burmese 0
        Cantonese 5
        Chinese, n.o.s. 0
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 0
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 25
        Greek 0
        Gujarati 0
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 0
        Hungarian 0
        Ilocano 0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0
        Italian 5
        Japanese 0
        Khmer (Cambodian) 0
        Korean 0
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 0
        Latvian 5
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 0
        Malayalam 0
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 0
        Marathi 0
        Nepali 0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0
        Norwegian 0
        Oromo 0
        Panjabi (Punjabi) 0
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 0
        Polish 5
        Portuguese 0
        Romanian 0
        Rundi (Kirundi) 0
        Russian 0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Serbian 0
        Serbo-Croatian 0
        Shanghainese 0
        Sign languages, n.i.e. 0
        Sindhi 0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slovak 0
        Slovenian 5
        Somali 0
        Spanish 5
        Swahili 0
        Swedish 0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 0
        Telugu 0
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 0
        Ukrainian 10
        Urdu 0
        Vietnamese 0
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 10
  Multiple responses         55
    English and French 5
    English and non-official language 50
    French and non-official language 0
    English, French and non-official language 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,750
  None 5,520
  Single responses  225
    English  30
    French  25
    Non-official languages  170
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 135
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  0
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  5
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  5
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  25
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  5
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  5
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  5
        Portuguese  0
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  0
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  5
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  5
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  0
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  60
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 30
  Multiple responses          5
    English and French  5
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  10
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.