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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 Lethbridge, CYFootnote 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 82,860 81,450 780 150
0 to 4 years 5,175 5,075 20 5
5 to 9 years 4,290 4,225 25 20
10 to 14 years 4,340 4,280 25 15
15 to 19 years 5,195 5,135 30 15
20 to 24 years 7,670 7,605 45 10
25 to 29 years 6,905 6,855 30 10
30 to 34 years 5,615 5,505 65 15
35 to 39 years 4,920 4,810 70 15
40 to 44 years 4,760 4,670 50 5
45 to 49 years 5,590 5,490 60 5
50 to 54 years 5,955 5,845 65 5
55 to 59 years 5,465 5,375 65 5
60 to 64 years 4,630 4,515 85 0
65 to 69 years 3,440 3,375 45 0
70 to 74 years 2,690 2,635 35 0
75 to 79 years 2,415 2,345 30 5
80 to 84 years 2,010 1,970 15 5
85 years and over 1,790 1,740 15 0
Median ageFootnote 3 37.2 37.0 47.5 29.9
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 69,055 67,870 710 115
Married or living with a common-law partner 39,395 38,635 465 70
Married (and not separated) 33,305 32,635 385 65
Living common law 6,090 5,995 75 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 29,655 29,240 245 40
Single (never legally married) 19,205 18,990 130 35
Separated 1,480 1,440 25 5
Divorced 5,000 4,935 50 5
Widowed 3,980 3,870 40 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 82,855 81,450 780 155
English only 78,160 78,160 0 0
French only 40 0 40 0
English and French 4,155 3,265 740 155
Neither English nor French 500 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 82,855 81,450 775 150
Single responses 81,945 80,595 750 125
English 71,610 71,605 0 0
French 815 90 725 0
Non-official languages 9,515 8,895 20 130
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 30 30 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 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 9,160 8,540 25 125
African languages, n.i.e. 65 65 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 5
Albanian 50 50 0 0
Amharic 65 60 0 0
Arabic 150 130 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Bengali 60 55 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 35 40 0 0
Bosnian 25 20 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 245 200 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 485 405 0 0
Creoles 15 10 5 0
Croatian 165 150 0 5
Czech 75 75 0 0
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 860 855 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 10 15 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,445 1,435 0 5
Greek 35 30 0 0
Gujarati 95 90 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 70 65 0 0
Hungarian 405 390 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 280 270 0 5
Japanese 320 305 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0
Korean 135 125 0 0
Kurdish 15 10 0 0
Lao 15 10 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 85 80 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 270 150 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0
Oromo 15 15 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 85 80 0 0
Pashto 25 20 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 165 155 0 0
Polish 435 430 0 0
Portuguese 30 25 0 0
Romanian 85 65 5 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 5
Russian 115 100 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 35 35 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 35 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Slovak 65 60 0 5
Slovenian 55 55 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0
Spanish 1,010 895 10 50
Swahili 40 35 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 460 460 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 30 35 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 280 280 0 0
Urdu 75 75 0 0
Vietnamese 190 160 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 330 325 0 0
Multiple responses 915 855 30 25
English and French 130 100 5 25
English and non-official language 730 725 0 0
French and non-official language 45 20 25 0
English, French and non-official language 10 10 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 82,855 81,450 775 155
Single responses 81,650 80,330 730 115
English 77,675 77,215 465 0
French 295 40 250 0
Non-official languages 3,680 3,080 10 115
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 3,585 2,985 10 110
African languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0
Afrikaans 15 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 5
Albanian 40 35 0 0
Amharic 40 35 0 0
Arabic 75 60 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Bengali 45 35 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 35 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 155 110 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 305 230 0 5
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 75 65 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 70 70 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 150 145 0 5
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 75 70 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 35 25 0 0
Hungarian 50 40 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 65 60 0 5
Japanese 100 85 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 100 95 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 10 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 50 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 250 130 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 50 45 0 0
Pashto 25 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 110 105 0 0
Polish 140 135 0 0
Portuguese 5 10 0 0
Romanian 55 25 0 20
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0
Russian 45 35 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Serbian 25 20 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 10 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 5
Slovenian 15 15 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 620 510 5 45
Swahili 15 10 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 235 235 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 25 0 5
Urdu 45 40 0 0
Vietnamese 150 130 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 95 90 0 0
Multiple responses 1,205 1,120 50 35
English and French 55 10 15 25
English and non-official language 1,105 1,095 5 0
French and non-official language 25 10 15 0
English, French and non-official language 25 0 10 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 82,855 81,450 780 155
None 77,300 76,330 450 80
Single responses 5,440 5,030 325 55
English 1,640 1,420 155 45
French 620 455 160 0
Non-official languages 3,180 3,155 10 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 0 5 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 15 2,810 2,780 5 10
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 20 20 0 0
Arabic 75 70 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 45 40 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 115 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 45 50 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 280 280 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 435 435 0 5
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 25 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 45 45 0 0
Hungarian 100 95 0 5
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 90 90 0 0
Japanese 130 135 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 15 0 0
Korean 35 30 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 40 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0
Polish 125 125 0 0
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 20 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 0 0
Russian 50 45 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 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 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 445 445 0 0
Swahili 35 35 5 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 155 160 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 60 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 30 35 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 360 355 0 0
Multiple responses 115 90 5 15
English and French 15 0 0 15
English and non-official language 40 35 5 0
French and non-official language 60 60 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 82,855 81,455 780 155
English 81,455 81,450 0 0
French 780 0 780 0
English and French 155 0 0 150
Neither English nor French 475 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 860 0 780 75
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.0 0.0 100.0 48.4

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

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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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Footnote 7

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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Footnote 10

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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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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