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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), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Airdrie, CY
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 1 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 42,480 41,620 665 90
0 to 4 years 4,145 4,070 35 15
5 to 9 years 3,315 3,280 20 15
10 to 14 years 2,905 2,855 40 15
15 to 19 years 2,740 2,710 25 0
20 to 24 years 2,545 2,520 25 5
25 to 29 years 3,555 3,510 40 5
30 to 34 years 4,265 4,175 75 5
35 to 39 years 3,870 3,760 85 15
40 to 44 years 3,330 3,250 70 10
45 to 49 years 3,045 2,960 75 5
50 to 54 years 2,720 2,655 55 0
55 to 59 years 2,210 2,150 50 5
60 to 64 years 1,495 1,445 35 0
65 to 69 years 835 810 15 0
70 to 74 years 545 530 10 0
75 to 79 years 390 380 5 0
80 to 84 years 300 290 5 0
85 years and over 275 255 10 0
Median ageFootnote 2 32.4 32.2 39.6 23.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 32,115 31,420 570 50
Married or living with a common-law partner 21,160 20,650 420 40
Married (and not separated) 17,830 17,410 335 35
Living common law 3,330 3,235 85 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 10,955 10,770 150 15
Single (never legally married) 7,500 7,400 90 10
Separated 875 860 15 0
Divorced 1,725 1,675 40 0
Widowed 860 835 10 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 42,480 41,625 665 90
English only 39,380 39,380 0 0
French only 25 0 20 0
English and French 2,970 2,240 645 90
Neither English nor French 105 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 42,480 41,625 665 90
Single responses 42,000 41,185 660 50
English 38,260 38,260 0 0
French 720 65 655 0
Non-official languages 3,020 2,865 0 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 5 5 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 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 6 2,980 2,825 5 50
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Afrikaans 20 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 20 15 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 55 45 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 20 15 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 75 65 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 85 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0
Dutch 155 155 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 395 395 0 5
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 30 30 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0
Hungarian 50 50 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 65 70 0 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0
Korean 55 55 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 15 0 5
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 230 205 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 0
Polish 95 85 0 5
Portuguese 50 50 0 0
Romanian 35 35 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 45 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 35 30 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 380 345 0 25
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 375 370 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 70 70 0 0
Urdu 95 90 0 0
Vietnamese 75 70 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 35 30 0 5
Multiple responses 480 435 5 35
English and French 140 105 0 35
English and non-official language 310 310 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 15 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 42,480 41,625 665 85
Single responses 41,885 41,095 635 50
English 40,600 40,215 385 0
French 255 10 245 0
Non-official languages 1,025 875 5 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 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 10 1,015 870 0 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 30 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 25 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 15 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 35 30 0 5
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 40 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 15 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 150 120 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 25 20 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 15 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. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 190 155 0 25
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 150 145 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 45 40 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 0 0 5
Multiple responses 595 525 30 40
English and French 80 20 25 35
English and non-official language 495 495 0 0
French and non-official language 10 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 42,480 41,625 665 85
None 40,015 39,520 355 55
Single responses 2,410 2,060 305 25
English 605 425 140 25
French 555 395 160 0
Non-official languages 1,250 1,235 5 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Dene 0 0 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 14 1,225 1,210 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 30 30 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 30 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 20 15 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0
Dutch 50 50 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 130 130 0 5
Greek 5 10 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 5
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 35 35 0 0
Japanese 30 35 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 75 70 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 45 45 0 0
Portuguese 40 40 0 0
Romanian 20 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 5 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 0 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 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 200 195 5 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 150 150 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 55 55 0 0
Vietnamese 35 35 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 25 25 0 0
Multiple responses 50 50 5 0
English and French 5 0 0 5
English and non-official language 15 10 5 0
French and non-official language 40 35 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 42,480 41,625 665 85
English 41,625 41,625 0 0
French 665 0 665 0
English and French 90 0 0 90
Neither English nor French 105 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 705 0 665 45
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.7 0.0 100.0 52.9

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

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Footnote 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 12

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 13

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 14

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 15

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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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 17

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 18

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-XCB2011053.

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