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Focus on Geography Series, 2011 Census

Census subdivision of Clearwater County, MD - Alberta

Map of Clearwater County, MD

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Population, 2011 and 2006 censuses

Chart A description: Clearwater County, MD - Population, 2011 and 2006 censuses

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Nat. rank

326

In 2011, Clearwater County (Municipal district) had a population of 12,278, representing a percentage change of 3.8% from 2006. This compares to the national average growth of 5.9%.

Land area is 18,691.78 square kilometres with a population density of 0.7 persons per square kilometre. This compares to the provincial land area of 640,081.87 square kilometres with a population density of 5.7 persons per square kilometre.

In 2011, Clearwater County (Municipal district) had 4,698 private dwellings occupied by usual residents. The change in private dwellings occupied by usual residents from 2006 was 5.6%. For Canada as a whole, the number of private dwellings occupied by usual residents increased 7.1%.

Population and dwelling counts

Clearwater County (Municipal district) – Neighbouring census subdivisions

Table 1 Clearwater County (Municipal district) – Neighbouring census subdivisions, population change, 2006 to 2011
Census subdivision (CSD) name	CSD type	Population
Census subdivision (CSD) name	CSD type	2011	2006	% change
Mountain View County, Alta.	MD	12,359	12,308 A	0.4
Red Deer County, Alta.	MD	18,351	18,649 A	-1.6
Lacombe County, Alta.	MD	10,312	10,394 A	-0.8
Ponoka County, Alta.	MD	8,856	8,640	2.5
Burnstick Lake, Alta.	SV	16	43	-62.8
Caroline, Alta.	VL	501	515	-2.7
Rocky Mountain House, Alta.	T	6,933	6,874	0.9
O'Chiese 203, Alta.	IRI	751	450	66.9
Sunchild 202, Alta.	IRI	677	482	40.5
Big Horn 144A, Alta.	IRI	134	161	-16.8
Wetaskiwin County No. 10, Alta.	MD	10,866	10,519 A	3.3
Brazeau County, Alta.	MD	7,201	7,040	2.3
Yellowhead County, Alta.	MD	10,469	10,045	4.2
Bighorn No. 8, Alta.	MD	1,341	1,264 E	6.1
Improvement District No. 9 Banff, Alta.	ID	1,175	938	25.3
Improvement District No. 12 Jasper Park, Alta.	ID	34	24	41.7

Alberta – Census subdivisions with 5,000-plus population with the highest population growth

Table 2 Alberta – Census subdivisions with 5,000-plus population with the highest population growth, population change, 2006 to 2011
Census subdivision (CSD) name	CSD type	Population
Census subdivision (CSD) name	CSD type	2011	2006	% change
Chestermere	T	14,824	9,923 A	49.4
Beaumont	T	13,284	8,961	48.2
Airdrie	CY	42,564	28,927	47.1
Leduc	CY	24,279	16,967	43.1
Okotoks	T	24,511	17,150 A	42.9

Alberta – Census subdivisions with 5,000-plus population with the lowest population growth

Table 3 Alberta – Census subdivisions with 5,000-plus population with the lowest population growth, population change, 2006 to 2011
Census subdivision (CSD) name	CSD type	Population
Census subdivision (CSD) name	CSD type	2011	2006	% change
Lac la Biche County	MD	8,402	9,123 A	-7.9
Willow Creek No. 26	MD	5,107	5,337	-4.3
Crowsnest Pass	SM	5,565	5,749	-3.2
Greenview No. 16	MD	5,299	5,464	-3.0
Lethbridge County	MD	10,061	10,254 A	-1.9

Age and sex

Clearwater County, MD – Age distribution

Chart C: Clearwater County, MD - Population by broad age groups

Chart C description: Clearwater County, MD - Population by broad age groups

Table 4 Clearwater County, MD – Age distributions by broad age groups and sex, 2011 Census
Age groups	Both sexes	Males	Females
0 to 14	19.3%	19.7%	18.8%
15 to 64	67.5%	66.6%	68.4%
65 and over	13.2%	13.7%	12.7%

In 2011, the percentage of the population aged 65 and over in Clearwater County, MD was 13.2%, compared with a national percentage of 14.8%. The percentage of the working age population (15 to 64) was 67.5% and the percentage of children aged 0 to 14 was 19.3%. In comparison, the national percentages were 68.5% for the population aged 15 to 64 and 16.7% for the population aged 0 to 14.

Clearwater County, MD – Population by broad age groups and sex

Table 5 Clearwater County, MD – Population by broad age groups, sex and population change between 2006 and 2011, 2006 to 2011 censuses
Broad age groups by sex	Population
Broad age groups by sex	2011	2006	change	% change
Both sexes
Total	12,275	11,825	450	3.8
0 to 14	2,365	2,425	-60	-2.5
15 to 64	8,290	8,050	240	3.0
65 and over	1,625	1,350	275	20.4
Males
Total	6,355	6,135	220	3.6
0 to 14	1,250	1,275	-25	-2.0
15 to 64	4,235	4,110	125	3.0
65 and over	870	755	115	15.2
Females
Total	5,925	5,690	235	4.1
0 to 14	1,115	1,155	-40	-3.5
15 to 64	4,055	3,945	110	2.8
65 and over	750	590	160	27.1

Clearwater County, MD – Population by five-year age groups and sex

Chart D description: Clearwater County, MD - Population by five-year age groups and sex

Table 6 Clearwater County, MD – Population by five-year age groups and sex, 2011 Census
Age groups	Both sexes	Males	Females
Total - Age groups	12,275	6,355	5,925
0 to 4 years	720	375	345
5 to 9 years	760	400	360
10 to 14 years	885	470	410
15 to 19 years	875	455	415
20 to 24 years	575	305	265
25 to 29 years	570	275	295
30 to 34 years	655	330	325
35 to 39 years	740	380	355
40 to 44 years	810	395	410
45 to 49 years	1,120	565	560
50 to 54 years	1,160	590	565
55 to 59 years	955	505	445
60 to 64 years	835	425	410
65 to 69 years	640	310	325
70 to 74 years	460	245	210
75 to 79 years	305	195	115
80 to 84 years	130	80	45
85 years and over	90	40	50
Median age	42.4	42.5	42.3

Clearwater County, MD – Median age¹ of the population

Chart E: Canada, Alberta and Clearwater County, MD - Median age, 2006 and 2011 censuses

Chart E description: Canada, Alberta and Clearwater County, MD - Median age, 2006 and 2011 censuses

In 2011, the median age in Clearwater County, MD was 42.4 years. In comparison, the median age of Alberta was 36.5 years.

Table 7 Canada, Alberta and Clearwater County, MD – Median age, 2006 and 2011 censuses
	Median age
	2006	2011
Canada	39.5	40.6
Alberta	36.0	36.5
Clearwater County, MD	40.1	42.4

Families and households

In 2011, the number of census families² in Clearwater County was 3,735, which represents a change of 4.6% from 2006. This compares to a growth rate for Canada of 5.5% over the same period.

In Clearwater County, 79.1% of census families were married couples in 2011, while 13.0% were common-law-couples and 7.6% were lone-parent families.

Chart F: Clearwater County - Census families by family structure

Chart F description: Clearwater County - Census families by family structure

Clearwater County – Family structure

Table 8 Canada, Alberta, CSD of Clearwater County, MD and neighbouring census subdivisions – Distribution of census families by family structure, 2011 Census
Geographic name	Total families	Married-couple families		Common-law-couple families		Lone-parent families		% change, census families, 2006 to 2011
Geographic name	Total families	number	%	number	%	number	%	% change, census families, 2006 to 2011
Canada †	9,389,695	6,293,950	67.0	1,567,905	16.7	1,527,840	16.3	5.5
Alberta †	999,525	719,355	72.0	135,660	13.6	144,510	14.5	10.5
Clearwater County, MD	3,735	2,955	79.1	485	13.0	285	7.6	4.6
Mountain View County, MD	3,835	3,200	83.4	380	9.9	260	6.8	1.9
Red Deer County, MD	5,410	4,445	82.2	530	9.8	435	8.0	0.4
Lacombe County, MD	3,075	2,585	84.1	285	9.3	205	6.7	3.7
Ponoka County, MD	2,615	2,200	84.1	240	9.2	175	6.7	4.0
Caroline, VL	130	80	61.5	30	23.1	25	19.2	-10.3
Rocky Mountain House, T	1,850	1,250	67.6	290	15.7	305	16.5	1.9
O'Chiese 203, IRI	170	5	2.9	85	50.0	80	47.1	70.0
Sunchild 202, IRI	160	15	9.4	75	46.9	70	43.8	33.3
Big Horn 144A, IRI	35	10	28.6	20	57.1	5	14.3	0.0
Wetaskiwin County No. 10, MD	3,370	2,780	82.5	355	10.5	235	7.0	3.4
Brazeau County, MD	2,200	1,680	76.4	305	13.9	215	9.8	4.3
Yellowhead County, MD	3,155	2,395	75.9	465	14.7	290	9.2	7.5
Bighorn No. 8, MD	395	300	75.9	60	15.2	35	8.9	6.8
Improvement District No. 9 Banff, ID	45	30	66.7	15	33.3	0	0.0	-47.1

Clearwater County – Presence of children within couple families

Among couples (married and common-law) in the census subdivision of Clearwater County, 41.7% were couples with children aged 24 and under at home. In comparison, as a whole, 46.9% of couples in Canada had children aged 24 and under at home.

Presence of children within couple families
* Children aged 24 and under at home
Married couples with children *	1,275
Married couples without children *	1,680
Common-law-couples with children *	160
Common-law-couples without children *	325

Clearwater County – Marital status

Chart H description: Clearwater County - Marital status

In Clearwater County, 70.5% of the total population aged 15 and over were either married (60.7%) or living with a common-law partner (9.9%).

The remaining 29.5% were not married and not living with a common-law partner, including those who were single (never-married), separated, divorced or widowed.

Note: Percentages may not total 100 percent due to random rounding.

Table 9 Canada, Alberta, Clearwater County, MD – Population 15 years and older by marital status, 2011 Census
Marital status	Clearwater County, MD		Alberta		Canada
Marital status	number	%	number	%	number	%
Total - Population 15 years and over	9,915	100.0	2,960,470	100.0	27,869,345	100.0
Married or living with a common-law partner	6,990	70.5	1,756,860	59.3	16,084,490	57.7
Married (and not separated)	6,015	60.7	1,484,705	50.2	12,941,965	46.4
Living common-law	980	9.9	272,155	9.2	3,142,525	11.3
Not married and not living with a common-law partner	2,925	29.5	1,203,615	40.7	11,784,855	42.3
Single (never legally married)	1,895	19.1	823,935	27.8	7,816,045	28.0
Separated	185	1.9	70,855	2.4	698,245	2.5
Divorced	460	4.6	177,375	6.0	1,686,035	6.0
Widowed	385	3.9	131,440	4.4	1,584,525	5.7

Clearwater County – Types of private households

There were 4,700 private households³ in Clearwater County in 2011, a change of 6.2% from 2006. Of these, 30.1% of households were comprised of couples with children aged 24 and under at home, a change of -6.3% compared with five years earlier.

Table 10 Canada, Alberta, Clearwater County, MD – Distribution of households by household type, 2011 Census
Household type⁴	Clearwater County, MD		Alberta		Canada
Household type⁴	number	%	number	%	number	%
Total private households	4,700	100.0	1,390,275	100.0	13,320,615	100.0
Couple-family households with children aged 24 and under at home⁵	1,415	30.1	407,145	29.3	3,524,915	26.5
Couple-family households without children aged 24 and under at home⁶	1,950	41.5	406,380	29.2	3,935,540	29.5
Lone-parent family households⁷	250	5.3	128,330	9.2	1,375,450	10.3
One-person households	905	19.3	342,735	24.7	3,673,310	27.6
Multiple family households⁸	55	1.2	27,900	2.0	268,060	2.0
Other households⁹	115	2.4	77,785	5.6	543,340	4.1

Clearwater County – Structural type of dwelling

In Clearwater County, 72.5% of private households lived in single-detached houses and 0.0% lived in apartments in buildings that have five or more storeys. The rest lived in other types of dwelling structures.

Table 11 Canada, Alberta, Clearwater County, MD – Distribution of private households by structural type of dwelling, 2011 Census
Structural type of dwelling	Clearwater County, MD		Alberta		Canada
Structural type of dwelling	number	%	number	%	number	%
Total - Structural type of dwelling	4,695	100.0	1,390,275	100.0	13,320,615	100.0
Single-detached house	3,405	72.5	883,260	63.5	7,329,150	55.0
Semi-detached house	10	0.2	71,850	5.2	646,240	4.9
Row house	5	0.1	97,865	7.0	791,600	5.9
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys	0	0.0	58,205	4.2	1,234,770	9.3
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys	0	0.0	197,945	14.2	2,397,555	18.0
Apartment, duplex	10	0.2	33,505	2.4	704,485	5.3
Other single-attached house¹⁰	10	0.2	1,060	0.1	33,310	0.3
Movable dwelling¹¹	1,260	26.8	46,590	3.4	183,510	1.4

Language

Clearwater County, MD – Mother tongue

Chart J description: Clearwater County, MD - Mother tongue and language spoken most often at home

Note: Counts for mother tongue as well as those for language spoken most often at home include single responses only.

In Clearwater County, 94.5% of the population reported English only as mother tongue, 0.9% reported French only, and 4.1% reported a non-official language only, in 2011. In comparison, the provincial / territorial percentages were 77.0% for English only, 1.9% for French only and 19.4% for only non-official languages.

In 2011, 98.6% of the population spoke only English most often at home, 0.2% spoke only French and 0.8% spoke only a non-official language. In comparison, the provincial / territorial percentages were 85.7% for only English, 0.7% for only French and 10.5% for only a non-official language.

Table 12 Clearwater County, MD – Mother tongue and language spoken most often at home, 2011 Census
Selected languages	Mother tongue		Language spoken most often at home
Selected languages	number	%	number	%
Total	12,280	100.0	12,280	100.0
English	11,600	94.5	12,110	98.6
French	115	0.9	25	0.2
Non-official language	505	4.1	100	0.8
Multiple responses	60	0.5	50	0.4

Table 13 Clearwater County, MD – Mother-tongue retention, 2011 Census
Mother tongue	Mother-tongue retention¹² (in percentage)
Mother tongue	Total retention; language spoken at home at least on a regular basis	Complete retention; language spoken most often at home	Partial retention; language spoken at home on a regular basis
Note: Counts for mother tongue and home language include single response of a language as well as multiple responses of a language with English and/or French.
English	100.0	99.9	0.0
French	48.0	20.0	28.0
Non-official language	47.7	23.4	24.3

Clearwater County, MD – Non-official languages

In Clearwater County, the three most common mother tongues were German (1.6%), Dutch (1.1%) and Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) (0.2%), in 2011. In comparison, the most common mother tongues at the provincial / territorial level were German (2.3%), Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) (1.9%) and Panjabi (Punjabi) (1.5%).

Table 14 Clearwater County, MD – The most common non-official-language mother tongues, 2011 Census
Mother tongue	Number	Percentage of non-official language mother-tongue population	Percentage of total population
Note: Counts for mother tongue and home language include single response of a language as well as multiple responses of a language with English and/or French.
German	195	34.8	1.6
Dutch	140	25.0	1.1
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	30	5.4	0.2
Ukrainian	25	4.5	0.2
Spanish	20	3.6	0.2

Clearwater County, MD – Bilingualism

Table 15 Clearwater County, MD – Rate of English-French bilingualism by mother tongue and age groups, 2011 Census
Age groups	Mother tongue
Age groups	Total	English	French	Non-official language
Note: Counts for mother tongue include single responses only. Consequently, the total excludes multiple responses.
Total	3.1	2.3	82.6	4.0
0 to 19	4.7	4.4	0.0	0.0
20 to 44	3.0	2.0	85.7	5.6
45 to 64	2.2	1.1	81.8	5.0
65 and over	2.5	1.4	60.0	0.0

Table 16 Clearwater County, MD – Knowledge of official languages, 2011 Census
Knowledge of official languages	Number	Percentage
Total	12,280	100.0
English only	11,880	96.7
French only	5	0.0
English and French	390	3.2
Neither English nor French	10	0.1

Symbols:

···: not applicable
†: excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements. For further information, refer to Notes.
¶: incompletely enumerated Indian reserve or Indian settlement. For further information, refer to Notes.
A: adjusted figure due to boundary change. For further information, refer to Content considerations.
E: use with caution. For further information, refer to Cautionary note.

Footnotes

Footnote 1

Median age: Age 'x' that divides a population in two groups of the same population size, one group being older than age 'x' and the other group being younger than age 'x'.

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Footnote 2

Census family: Refers to a married couple (with or without children), a common-law couple (with or without children) or a lone parent family.

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Footnote 3

Household, private: Refers to a person or a group of persons (other than foreign residents) who occupy a private dwelling and do not have a usual place of residence elsewhere in Canada.

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Footnote 4

Household type: Refers to the basic division of private households into family and non-family households. Family household refers to a household that contains at least one census family, that is, a married couple with or without children, or a couple living in common-law with or without children or a lone parent living with one or more children.

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Footnote 5

Couple-family households with children: Refers to couple households with at least one child aged 24 and under.

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Footnote 6

Couple-family households without children: Refers to couple households without children aged 24 and under. Includes couple households with all children aged 25 and over.

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Footnote 7

Lone-parent-family households: Refers to all lone-parent family households regardless of age of children.

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Footnote 8

Multiple-family households: Refers to a household in which two or more census families (with or without additional persons) occupy the same private dwelling.

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Footnote 9

Other households: Refers to two or more people who share a private dwelling, but who do not constitute a census family.

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Footnote 10

Other single-attached house: A single dwelling that is attached to another building and that does not fall into any of the other categories, such as a single dwelling attached to a non-residential structure (e.g., a store or a church) or occasionally to another residential structure (e.g., an apartment building).

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Footnote 11

Movable dwelling includes mobile homes and other movable dwellings such as houseboats and railroad cars.

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Footnote 12

Mother-tongue retention: Retention refers to the situation where people speak their mother tongue at home. Retention is defined as 'complete' when the mother tongue is the language spoken most often and 'partial' when it is spoken on a regular basis but not most often. The (complete or partial) retention rate refers to the proportion of the population with a given mother tongue that speaks that language at home most often or on a regular basis. The retention rate provides an indication of a group's linguistic vitality, particularly the importance of transmitting languages between generations.

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Source:

Statistics Canada. 2012. Focus on Geography Series, 2011 Census. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-310-XWE2011004. Ottawa, Ontario. Analytical products, 2011 Census. Last updated October 24, 2012.

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2011 Census Topic-based tabulations – Census subdivision of Clearwater County, Municipal district - Alberta
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2011 Census Data Navigator – Census subdivision of Clearwater County, Municipal district - Alberta
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