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Census Profile

Killam, Alberta (Town)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 981
Population in 20061 1,019
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -3.7
Total private dwellings2 433
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 399
Population density per square kilometre 216.3
Land area (square km) 4.53
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 980
0 to 4 years 70
5 to 9 years 70
10 to 14 years 70
15 to 19 years 45
15 years 15
16 years 10
17 years 10
18 years 5
19 years 10
20 to 24 years 45
25 to 29 years 65
30 to 34 years 70
35 to 39 years 55
40 to 44 years 60
45 to 49 years 60
50 to 54 years 55
55 to 59 years 55
60 to 64 years 65
65 to 69 years 70
70 to 74 years 25
75 to 79 years 40
80 to 84 years 25
85 years and over 40
Median age of the population5 39.9
% of the population aged 15 and over 78.3
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 765
Married or living with a common-law partner 505
Married (and not separated) 450
Living common law 55
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 260
Single (never legally married) 135
Separated 10
Divorced 50
Widowed 70
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 270
Size of census family: 2 persons 145
Size of census family: 3 persons 45
Size of census family: 4 persons 50
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 35
Total number of census families in private households8 270
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 245
Married couples 215
Without children at home 115
With children at home 100
1 child 25
2 children 40
3 or more children 30
Common-law couples 30
Without children at home 15
With children at home 15
1 child 10
2 children 5
3 or more children 0
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 30
Female parent 25
1 child 10
2 children 10
3 or more children 0
Male parent 5
1 child 0
2 children 0
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 280
Under six years of age 85
6 to 14 years 125
15 to 17 years 30
18 to 24 years 25
25 years and over 10
Average number of children at home per census family 1.0
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 940
Number of persons not in census families 145
Living with relatives9 10
Living with non-relatives only 10
Living alone 125
Number of census family persons 800
Average number of persons per census family 3.0
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 165
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 55
Living with relatives9 0
Living with non-relatives only 0
Living alone 50
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 115
Total number of private households by household type10 400
Census-family households 270
One-family-only households11 265
Couple-family households12 240
Without children 125
With children 110
Lone-parent-family households 25
Other family households13 10
One-family households with persons not in a census family 10
Couple-family households14 5
Without children 0
With children 5
Lone-parent-family households 5
Two-or-more-family households 0
Non-census-family households 130
One-person households 120
Two-or-more-person households 5
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 400
Single-detached house 335
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 20
Other dwelling17 45
Semi-detached house 10
Row house 15
Apartment, duplex 5
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 15
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 400
1 person 125
2 persons 145
3 persons 45
4 persons 50
5 persons 20
6 or more persons 10
Number of persons in private households 940
Average number of persons in private households 2.4
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 945
  Single responses  945
    English  915
    French  5
    Non-official languages  20
      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 20
        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.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  5
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  5
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  0
        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  0
        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  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  0
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  0
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  5
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses          0
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language 0
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 945
  English only 930
  French only 0
  English and French 10
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 945
  English 940
  French 5
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 0
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.0
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 945
  Single responses 945
    English 935
    French 0
    Non-official languages 5
      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 5
        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. 0
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 0
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 0
        Greek 0
        Gujarati 0
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 0
        Hungarian 0
        Ilocano 0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0
        Italian 0
        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 0
        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 0
        Somali 0
        Spanish 0
        Swahili 0
        Swedish 0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 0
        Telugu 0
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 0
        Ukrainian 0
        Urdu 0
        Vietnamese 0
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses         0
    English and French 0
    English and non-official language 5
    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 945
  None 935
  Single responses  5
    English  0
    French  0
    Non-official languages  5
      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 5
        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.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  0
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  0
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  0
        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  0
        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  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  0
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses          5
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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