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Census Profile

Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories (Hamlet)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 792
Population in 20061 776
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 2.1
Total private dwellings2 307
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 266
Population density per square kilometre 14.8
Land area (square km) 53.39
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 790
0 to 4 years 60
5 to 9 years 55
10 to 14 years 80
15 to 19 years 85
15 years 15
16 years 20
17 years 15
18 years 20
19 years 20
20 to 24 years 60
25 to 29 years 60
30 to 34 years 40
35 to 39 years 45
40 to 44 years 45
45 to 49 years 55
50 to 54 years 45
55 to 59 years 25
60 to 64 years 30
65 to 69 years 35
70 to 74 years 30
75 to 79 years 10
80 to 84 years 10
85 years and over 10
Median age of the population5 28.9
% of the population aged 15 and over 75.4
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 600
Married or living with a common-law partner 255
Married (and not separated) 145
Living common law 110
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 340
Single (never legally married) 275
Separated 20
Divorced 10
Widowed 35
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 205
Size of census family: 2 persons 80
Size of census family: 3 persons 60
Size of census family: 4 persons 25
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 40
Total number of census families in private households8 205
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 125
Married couples 70
Without children at home 20
With children at home 50
1 child 20
2 children 15
3 or more children 20
Common-law couples 55
Without children at home 20
With children at home 35
1 child 10
2 children 5
3 or more children 15
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 85
Female parent 60
1 child 35
2 children 15
3 or more children 10
Male parent 20
1 child 10
2 children 10
3 or more children 5
Total children in census families in private households 350
Under six years of age 60
6 to 14 years 125
15 to 17 years 45
18 to 24 years 70
25 years and over 45
Average number of children at home per census family 1.7
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 785
Number of persons not in census families 105
Living with relatives9 30
Living with non-relatives only 5
Living alone 70
Number of census family persons 680
Average number of persons per census family 3.3
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 100
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 45
Living with relatives9 10
Living with non-relatives only 0
Living alone 30
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 55
Total number of private households by household type10 270
Census-family households 195
One-family-only households11 155
Couple-family households12 105
Without children 30
With children 80
Lone-parent-family households 50
Other family households13 35
One-family households with persons not in a census family 15
Couple-family households14 10
Without children 0
With children 5
Lone-parent-family households 10
Two-or-more-family households 15
Non-census-family households 75
One-person households 70
Two-or-more-person households 10
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 265
Single-detached house 170
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 5
Other dwelling17 90
Semi-detached house 25
Row house 60
Apartment, duplex 5
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 5
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 265
1 person 65
2 persons 60
3 persons 55
4 persons 35
5 persons 25
6 or more persons 25
Number of persons in private households 785
Average number of persons in private households 3.0
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 785
  Single responses  785
    English  615
    French  10
    Non-official languages  160
      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.  5
        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  5
        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 150
  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 790
  English only 780
  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 785
  English 780
  French 5
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 5
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.6
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 785
  Single responses 790
    English 750
    French 0
    Non-official languages 35
      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 0
        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 35
  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
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 785
  None 715
  Single responses  65
    English  20
    French  0
    Non-official languages  50
      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.  5
        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 45
  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

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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