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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), Mother Tongue (4A), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , mother tongue , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Grande PrairieFootnote 2
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 3 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 54,695 53,085 1,340 105
0 to 4 years 4,830 4,715 50 20
5 to 9 years 3,600 3,560 35 5
10 to 14 years 3,220 3,175 40 15
15 to 19 years 3,660 3,605 45 5
20 to 24 years 5,240 5,160 70 10
25 to 29 years 6,535 6,385 140 10
30 to 34 years 5,205 5,055 145 10
35 to 39 years 4,250 4,130 100 10
40 to 44 years 3,575 3,455 100 10
45 to 49 years 3,755 3,600 135 5
50 to 54 years 3,385 3,230 140 0
55 to 59 years 2,545 2,420 110 5
60 to 64 years 1,665 1,570 80 0
65 to 69 years 1,030 965 50 0
70 to 74 years 775 725 40 0
75 to 79 years 575 545 25 0
80 to 84 years 445 425 10 0
85 years and over 395 375 15 0
Median ageFootnote 4 30.2 30.0 42.1 24.3
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 43,040 41,645 1,215 65
Married or living with a common-law partner 25,185 24,295 775 35
Married (and not separated) 18,640 17,935 595 35
Living common law 6,545 6,360 180 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 17,850 17,345 440 30
Single (never legally married) 12,905 12,600 280 25
Separated 1,220 1,190 35 0
Divorced 2,415 2,325 80 5
Widowed 1,310 1,230 55 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 54,695 53,090 1,345 110
English only 50,575 50,570 0 0
French only 65 0 70 0
English and French 3,890 2,510 1,275 105
Neither English nor French 165 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 54,690 53,085 1,345 105
Single responses 54,010 52,480 1,310 65
English 48,230 48,235 0 0
French 1,405 120 1,290 0
Non-official languages 4,370 4,125 30 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 210 215 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 175 175 0 0
Dene 35 35 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 4,075 3,835 20 65
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 40 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 30 25 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 145 125 0 20
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 75 75 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 95 65 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 175 145 0 0
Creoles 15 5 10 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 100 95 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 670 655 0 0
Greek 10 15 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 55 50 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 45 45 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 40 40 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 45 40 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 40 40 5 0
Oromo 15 10 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 215 195 0 5
Pashto 10 10 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 50 45 0 0
Polish 210 200 0 0
Portuguese 30 30 0 0
Romanian 40 30 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 85 65 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 110 95 0 0
Spanish 310 290 5 5
Swahili 5 10 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 795 790 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0
Tamil 25 15 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 200 190 5 0
Urdu 50 45 0 0
Vietnamese 10 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 85 80 0 0
Multiple responses 680 610 30 50
English and French 220 165 15 40
English and non-official language 425 430 0 0
French and non-official language 20 10 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 5 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 54,695 53,085 1,340 110
Single responses 53,905 52,410 1,285 55
English 51,595 50,755 835 0
French 480 35 445 0
Non-official languages 1,830 1,615 5 55
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 55 55 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 45 45 0 0
Dene 15 15 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 12 1,740 1,525 5 55
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 40 40 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 80 55 5 20
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 35 35 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 60 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 65 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 120 115 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 40 35 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 20 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 5 5 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 10 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 170 145 0 5
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 35 0 0
Polish 65 50 0 0
Portuguese 0 5 0 0
Romanian 25 15 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 35 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 85 75 0 5
Spanish 160 145 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 420 415 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 35 35 0 0
Multiple responses 785 680 55 55
English and French 125 30 45 50
English and non-official language 645 645 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 54,695 53,090 1,340 105
None 50,880 49,925 735 70
Single responses 3,730 3,090 600 30
English 1,210 940 240 20
French 830 490 335 0
Non-official languages 1,695 1,665 25 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 145 145 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 135 130 5 0
Dene 10 10 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 5 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 1,485 1,460 20 5
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 55 55 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 60 0 0
Creoles 10 5 10 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0
Dutch 40 40 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 240 240 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 0
Hungarian 15 10 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 10 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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 45 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 10 0 0
Polish 70 70 0 0
Portuguese 30 25 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 35 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 35 35 0 0
Spanish 140 140 0 5
Swahili 10 5 5 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 320 320 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 60 50 5 0
Multiple responses 85 70 5 10
English and French 10 0 0 5
English and non-official language 25 20 0 0
French and non-official language 50 50 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 54,690 53,085 1,340 105
English 53,085 53,085 0 0
French 1,340 0 1,340 0
English and French 105 0 0 105
Neither English nor French 155 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 1,395 0 1,345 55
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 2.6 0.0 100.0 52.4

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Language groups are defined as follows: 'English' includes respondents who reported English only or English and one non-official language; 'French' includes respondents who reported French only or French and one non-official language; 'English and French' includes respondents who reported English and French, with or without one non-official language.

'Total' category includes all groups mentioned as well as respondents who reported a non-official language as their only mother tongue.

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Footnote 2

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

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Footnote 3

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 14

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 18

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 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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Footnote 20

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-XCB2011058.

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