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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 Red DeerFootnote 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 89,375 87,635 1,110 140
0 to 4 years 6,235 6,115 15 5
5 to 9 years 5,175 5,115 30 10
10 to 14 years 5,140 5,090 20 20
15 to 19 years 5,980 5,920 35 25
20 to 24 years 7,450 7,355 60 10
25 to 29 years 8,295 8,175 85 10
30 to 34 years 7,240 7,120 85 15
35 to 39 years 6,225 6,100 85 15
40 to 44 years 5,860 5,720 90 10
45 to 49 years 6,490 6,330 110 10
50 to 54 years 6,900 6,730 130 5
55 to 59 years 5,460 5,335 95 5
60 to 64 years 4,035 3,935 65 0
65 to 69 years 2,670 2,575 70 5
70 to 74 years 2,130 2,065 45 0
75 to 79 years 1,765 1,700 45 0
80 to 84 years 1,285 1,245 20 0
85 years and over 1,050 1,010 25 0
Median ageFootnote 4 34.4 34.2 47.8 25.6
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 72,830 71,320 1,040 105
Married or living with a common-law partner 41,285 40,315 670 55
Married (and not separated) 33,535 32,705 545 50
Living common law 7,755 7,615 125 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 31,545 31,005 370 55
Single (never legally married) 21,010 20,735 195 45
Separated 2,185 2,140 30 5
Divorced 5,330 5,230 90 5
Widowed 3,020 2,905 60 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 89,375 87,635 1,105 140
English only 83,795 83,795 0 0
French only 40 0 40 0
English and French 5,040 3,830 1,065 145
Neither English nor French 500 15 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 89,375 87,635 1,105 145
Single responses 88,345 86,655 1,085 115
English 77,735 77,730 5 0
French 1,245 180 1,060 0
Non-official languages 9,365 8,740 20 110
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 90 90 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 70 70 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 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 10 10 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 8 9,120 8,510 20 110
African languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 0
Afrikaans 90 90 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 20 20 0 0
Arabic 230 205 0 10
Armenian 10 15 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 30 0 0
Bengali 35 30 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 95 100 0 0
Bosnian 65 65 0 0
Bulgarian 15 20 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 225 185 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 490 385 0 5
Creoles 15 15 5 0
Croatian 35 30 0 0
Czech 45 35 0 0
Danish 70 70 0 0
Dutch 425 425 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 725 710 0 5
Greek 50 45 0 0
Gujarati 40 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 5
Hindi 135 130 0 0
Hungarian 95 90 0 0
Ilocano 135 130 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 85 85 0 0
Japanese 20 15 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 60 55 0 0
Korean 150 140 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0
Lao 60 55 0 0
Latvian 10 15 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 65 60 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 25 5 0
Norwegian 15 20 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 185 175 0 0
Pashto 60 60 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 195 160 0 0
Polish 170 165 0 0
Portuguese 30 35 0 0
Romanian 95 90 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0
Russian 235 220 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Serbian 90 85 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 25 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 10 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 20 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 45 40 0 0
Spanish 1,455 1,235 10 55
Swahili 25 25 0 0
Swedish 15 20 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,980 1,960 5 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 25 20 0 0
Telugu 20 15 0 0
Thai 35 30 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 10 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 330 315 0 5
Urdu 130 125 0 0
Vietnamese 175 155 0 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 150 145 0 0
Multiple responses 1,030 980 20 30
English and French 165 135 10 20
English and non-official language 790 785 0 0
French and non-official language 50 35 15 0
English, French and non-official language 35 20 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 89,375 87,635 1,110 145
Single responses 87,630 85,975 1,060 105
English 82,625 81,835 795 0
French 290 35 255 0
Non-official languages 4,710 4,105 15 110
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 20 20 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 15 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 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 5 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 12 4,660 4,055 15 105
African languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 0
Afrikaans 60 65 0 5
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 100 80 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 140 95 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 330 230 0 5
Creoles 10 10 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 25 20 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 15 15 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 80 65 0 5
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 30 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 45 45 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 0
Ilocano 30 30 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 0
Japanese 0 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 20 0 0
Korean 115 105 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 35 30 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 45 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 120 110 0 0
Pashto 50 50 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 145 110 0 0
Polish 45 45 0 5
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 55 45 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0
Russian 130 115 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 45 45 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 35 30 0 0
Spanish 1,025 805 10 60
Swahili 15 15 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,250 1,230 0 5
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 10 0 0
Ukrainian 85 70 0 0
Urdu 75 70 0 0
Vietnamese 115 95 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 35 25 0 5
Multiple responses 1,745 1,665 45 40
English and French 65 15 30 25
English and non-official language 1,625 1,620 0 0
French and non-official language 30 20 10 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 5 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 89,375 87,635 1,105 145
None 83,160 81,990 660 85
Single responses 6,110 5,555 440 55
English 2,300 2,075 145 50
French 910 630 280 5
Non-official languages 2,900 2,850 15 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 100 100 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 80 80 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 10 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0
Stoney 5 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 16 2,720 2,670 15 10
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 10 0 0
Arabic 100 95 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 65 60 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 110 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 10 15 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0
Dutch 125 125 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 230 230 5 0
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 80 80 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 40 35 0 5
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 25 30 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 40 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 40 0 0
Polish 35 35 0 0
Portuguese 20 15 0 0
Romanian 30 25 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 65 65 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 25 30 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 15 0 0
Spanish 410 395 10 0
Swahili 10 15 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 565 565 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 5 10 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 75 75 0 0
Urdu 60 60 0 0
Vietnamese 50 50 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 85 80 0 0
Multiple responses 105 95 5 5
English and French 5 5 0 5
English and non-official language 30 35 0 0
French and non-official language 65 60 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 89,375 87,635 1,105 145
English 87,640 87,640 0 0
French 1,110 0 1,110 0
English and French 145 0 0 145
Neither English nor French 485 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 1,180 0 1,105 70
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 1.3 0.0 100.0 48.3

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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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Footnote 11

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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