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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 Wood Buffalo, SMFootnote 1
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 2 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 65,520 63,045 1,810 300
0 to 4 years 5,120 4,850 75 20
5 to 9 years 3,665 3,595 40 20
10 to 14 years 3,440 3,380 45 15
15 to 19 years 3,915 3,825 55 35
20 to 24 years 6,070 5,900 140 20
25 to 29 years 7,995 7,740 215 30
30 to 34 years 6,835 6,585 200 35
35 to 39 years 5,650 5,420 170 55
40 to 44 years 5,375 5,185 160 25
45 to 49 years 5,570 5,330 200 20
50 to 54 years 5,525 5,265 245 10
55 to 59 years 3,555 3,370 160 5
60 to 64 years 1,655 1,550 75 5
65 to 69 years 625 595 20 0
70 to 74 years 265 235 20 0
75 to 79 years 155 135 0 0
80 to 84 years 70 55 0 0
85 years and over 30 25 0 0
Median ageFootnote 3 31.8 31.6 38.8 31.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 53,290 51,225 1,655 235
Married or living with a common-law partner 33,245 31,925 1,035 155
Married (and not separated) 25,180 24,185 715 150
Living common law 8,060 7,735 315 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 20,050 19,300 625 85
Single (never legally married) 15,900 15,350 460 75
Separated 1,265 1,220 40 0
Divorced 2,345 2,235 105 5
Widowed 530 490 15 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 65,520 63,045 1,815 300
English only 60,330 60,330 0 0
French only 100 0 100 0
English and French 4,700 2,695 1,705 300
Neither English nor French 385 25 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 65,515 63,045 1,810 300
Single responses 64,200 61,830 1,750 255
English 52,165 52,160 5 0
French 1,790 95 1,700 0
Non-official languages 10,250 9,580 55 255
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 410 400 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 270 260 0 0
Dene 130 130 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 9,645 9,000 45 245
African languages, n.i.e. 65 50 0 10
Afrikaans 130 130 0 0
Akan (Twi) 45 45 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 145 145 0 5
Arabic 755 620 20 75
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 75 80 0 0
Bengali 195 185 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 65 60 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 100 90 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 390 360 0 0
Creoles 30 15 5 10
Croatian 15 15 0 0
Czech 30 30 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 85 80 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 195 190 0 5
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 860 775 5 10
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 335 330 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 5
Ilocano 35 35 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 50 45 0 5
Japanese 15 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 95 85 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0
Malayalam 150 140 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 155 145 0 0
Marathi 40 40 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 85 80 10 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 40 35 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 295 285 0 0
Pashto 40 35 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 130 115 5 10
Polish 130 125 0 0
Portuguese 115 110 0 5
Romanian 90 70 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 95 90 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Serbian 55 45 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 15 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slovak 15 20 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 575 550 5 10
Spanish 890 810 0 30
Swahili 30 20 5 5
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,395 1,385 0 5
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0
Tamil 140 140 0 0
Telugu 45 45 0 0
Thai 30 30 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 40 40 0 0
Turkish 35 35 0 5
Ukrainian 60 60 0 0
Urdu 835 790 0 10
Vietnamese 30 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 190 175 5 5
Multiple responses 1,315 1,215 60 45
English and French 210 150 25 35
English and non-official language 1,035 1,040 0 0
French and non-official language 45 5 35 0
English, French and non-official language 20 15 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 65,520 63,045 1,810 300
Single responses 63,595 61,270 1,720 240
English 56,930 56,105 830 0
French 880 25 860 0
Non-official languages 5,780 5,145 30 240
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 125 115 5 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 60 50 0 0
Dene 70 65 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 11 5,580 4,965 30 230
African languages, n.i.e. 40 30 0 10
Afrikaans 80 80 0 0
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 115 105 0 0
Arabic 500 375 10 70
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 0
Bengali 135 125 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 60 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 265 235 0 5
Creoles 25 5 0 15
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 30 20 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 40 35 0 5
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 645 565 0 10
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 200 200 0 5
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 5
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 65 55 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 75 65 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 105 90 0 5
Marathi 15 15 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 25 25 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 145 130 0 0
Pashto 35 30 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 90 75 0 5
Polish 30 25 0 0
Portuguese 40 35 0 0
Romanian 60 40 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 35 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 45 30 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Sindhi 10 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 10 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 5
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 405 380 0 15
Spanish 595 515 5 30
Swahili 20 15 0 5
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 615 610 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 80 80 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 35 35 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 580 530 0 10
Vietnamese 10 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 75 65 0 5
Multiple responses 1,920 1,770 90 60
English and French 120 25 65 30
English and non-official language 1,740 1,735 5 0
French and non-official language 15 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 45 5 15 25
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 65,520 63,045 1,810 300
None 57,560 56,230 860 155
Single responses 7,815 6,725 930 125
English 3,310 2,700 490 100
French 890 480 395 15
Non-official languages 3,615 3,550 45 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 295 295 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 220 215 0 0
Dene 65 65 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 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 15 3,215 3,155 45 10
African languages, n.i.e. 25 25 5 0
Afrikaans 60 60 0 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 40 35 0 0
Arabic 330 320 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0
Bengali 35 35 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 95 0 0
Creoles 10 0 5 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 55 55 0 0
Greek 15 15 0 0
Gujarati 105 110 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 230 220 0 5
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5 0
Italian 20 25 0 0
Japanese 10 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 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 15 15 0 0
Malayalam 55 55 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 40 0 0
Marathi 25 25 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 90 80 10 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 15 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 100 100 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 45 45 0 0
Polish 65 65 0 0
Portuguese 60 65 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 5 0
Russian 50 45 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 5 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 135 125 0 0
Spanish 235 235 0 0
Swahili 25 20 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 555 560 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 55 55 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 15 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 220 220 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 105 100 0 0
Multiple responses 140 90 25 25
English and French 35 0 10 20
English and non-official language 50 40 10 0
French and non-official language 50 45 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 65,515 63,045 1,810 300
English 63,045 63,040 0 0
French 1,810 0 1,810 0
English and French 300 0 0 300
Neither English nor French 360 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,960 0 1,810 145
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 3.0 0.0 100.0 48.3

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

In 2006, the population and/or dwelling counts for this census subdivision were found to be incorrect. Since it is not possible to make changes to the 2006 Census data presented in these tables, the 2006 data should be used with caution. For further details, please refer to the Population and dwelling count amendments, 2011 Census.

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Footnote 2

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

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Footnote 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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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Footnote 8

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 9

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 13

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 17

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 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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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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011053.

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