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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 Medicine Hat
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 71,815 70,685 685 55
0 to 4 years 4,570 4,495 20 0
5 to 9 years 4,320 4,290 20 10
10 to 14 years 4,445 4,425 10 10
15 to 19 years 4,455 4,435 10 5
20 to 24 years 4,540 4,495 30 0
25 to 29 years 5,025 4,960 35 5
30 to 34 years 5,000 4,905 35 0
35 to 39 years 4,610 4,515 40 0
40 to 44 years 4,640 4,565 40 5
45 to 49 years 5,315 5,215 65 5
50 to 54 years 5,730 5,640 70 0
55 to 59 years 5,135 5,035 80 5
60 to 64 years 4,025 3,940 65 5
65 to 69 years 3,025 2,945 60 5
70 to 74 years 2,425 2,375 35 5
75 to 79 years 1,990 1,945 35 0
80 to 84 years 1,485 1,450 25 0
85 years and over 1,075 1,060 5 0
Median ageFootnote 3 38.9 38.7 52.6 24.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 58,480 57,480 640 35
Married or living with a common-law partner 36,145 35,460 420 25
Married (and not separated) 30,565 29,975 345 20
Living common law 5,575 5,490 75 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 22,330 22,015 225 10
Single (never legally married) 13,435 13,285 95 10
Separated 1,675 1,650 20 0
Divorced 4,150 4,075 65 0
Widowed 3,070 3,005 40 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 71,815 70,690 685 55
English only 68,905 68,905 0 0
French only 20 0 20 0
English and French 2,495 1,770 665 55
Neither English nor French 400 10 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 71,815 70,685 685 55
Single responses 71,265 70,170 675 35
English 64,385 64,380 5 0
French 835 170 660 0
Non-official languages 6,050 5,625 0 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 20 15 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 5,975 5,550 0 35
African languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 0
Afrikaans 45 40 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 140 125 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 75 75 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 70 60 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 245 195 0 0
Creoles 20 20 0 0
Croatian 45 45 0 0
Czech 20 25 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0
Dutch 245 245 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 2,655 2,590 5 5
Greek 35 35 0 0
Gujarati 5 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 5
Hungarian 75 75 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 70 70 0 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0
Korean 40 40 0 0
Kurdish 5 10 0 0
Lao 15 10 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 40 35 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 65 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 5
Polish 120 120 0 0
Portuguese 40 40 0 0
Romanian 35 30 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 75 70 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 25 25 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 15 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 35 30 0 0
Spanish 590 490 0 10
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 260 260 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 15 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 115 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 145 150 0 0
Urdu 60 55 0 0
Vietnamese 65 60 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 55 55 0 0
Multiple responses 550 520 10 20
English and French 105 80 5 15
English and non-official language 410 410 0 0
French and non-official language 30 25 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 71,815 70,685 685 55
Single responses 71,150 70,055 675 30
English 68,790 68,265 525 0
French 175 40 140 0
Non-official languages 2,180 1,750 5 30
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 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 11 2,170 1,740 5 30
African languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 20 15 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 95 75 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 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 160 110 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 15 20 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 10 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 700 630 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 30 25 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 10 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0
Korean 25 20 0 0
Kurdish 10 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 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 30 25 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 5
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 50 45 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0
Polish 20 15 0 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 10 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 25 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 35 30 0 0
Spanish 340 245 0 15
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 125 120 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 105 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0
Vietnamese 35 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 10 10 0 0
Multiple responses 670 635 10 25
English and French 40 10 15 15
English and non-official language 615 615 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 71,815 70,690 685 55
None 68,730 67,915 415 35
Single responses 3,030 2,715 270 15
English 980 855 85 15
French 490 305 180 0
Non-official languages 1,560 1,555 5 0
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 5 5 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 1,510 1,505 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 10 5 0 0
Arabic 45 45 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 25 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 50 50 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 75 75 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 490 485 0 0
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 25 25 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 10 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 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 225 220 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 100 100 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 25 25 0 0
Urdu 15 20 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 30 35 0 0
Multiple responses 60 50 5 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 20 20 0 0
French and non-official language 35 35 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 71,815 70,685 685 55
English 70,685 70,690 0 0
French 685 0 685 0
English and French 55 0 0 55
Neither English nor French 385 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 715 0 685 25
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.0 0.0 100.0 45.5

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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

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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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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Footnote 14

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-XCB2011058.

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