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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 Wood Buffalo
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 66,845 64,370 1,810 300
0 to 4 years 5,260 4,985 80 20
5 to 9 years 3,765 3,690 35 20
10 to 14 years 3,540 3,475 45 15
15 to 19 years 4,015 3,925 55 30
20 to 24 years 6,180 6,015 140 15
25 to 29 years 8,110 7,855 210 30
30 to 34 years 6,920 6,670 205 35
35 to 39 years 5,745 5,510 165 50
40 to 44 years 5,490 5,300 155 30
45 to 49 years 5,655 5,415 200 20
50 to 54 years 5,610 5,355 240 10
55 to 59 years 3,620 3,435 155 10
60 to 64 years 1,710 1,605 75 5
65 to 69 years 660 625 15 5
70 to 74 years 280 255 20 0
75 to 79 years 175 155 0 0
80 to 84 years 75 60 5 0
85 years and over 40 35 0 0
Median ageFootnote 3 31.7 31.6 38.8 31.2
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 54,285 52,215 1,655 240
Married or living with a common-law partner 33,690 32,375 1,030 160
Married (and not separated) 25,350 24,355 720 150
Living common law 8,340 8,015 310 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 20,595 19,845 625 85
Single (never legally married) 16,335 15,785 460 75
Separated 1,295 1,245 45 0
Divorced 2,380 2,270 100 5
Widowed 585 545 20 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 66,850 64,370 1,810 300
English only 61,645 61,645 0 0
French only 100 0 100 0
English and French 4,715 2,705 1,710 300
Neither English nor French 385 20 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 66,845 64,370 1,810 305
Single responses 65,530 63,155 1,750 260
English 53,050 53,045 5 0
French 1,795 95 1,695 0
Non-official languages 10,690 10,015 55 255
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 840 825 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 510 500 0 5
Dene 320 320 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 9,655 9,005 50 245
African languages, n.i.e. 65 50 0 10
Afrikaans 130 130 0 5
Akan (Twi) 45 45 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0
Amharic 150 145 0 5
Arabic 755 625 20 75
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 75 75 0 0
Bengali 195 185 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 60 55 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 5
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0
Burmese 5 10 0 0
Cantonese 95 90 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 390 360 0 0
Creoles 30 15 5 15
Croatian 15 20 0 0
Czech 30 25 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 80 80 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 195 190 0 5
Greek 25 25 0 0
Gujarati 860 775 5 10
Hakka 5 5 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 340 330 0 5
Hungarian 45 40 0 5
Ilocano 35 35 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Italian 50 50 0 5
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 10 0 0
Korean 95 90 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 5
Malayalam 150 140 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 160 145 0 0
Marathi 45 45 0 0
Nepali 20 15 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 85 80 5 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 40 40 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 300 285 0 0
Pashto 40 35 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 130 120 5 10
Polish 130 130 0 0
Portuguese 115 110 0 5
Romanian 90 75 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 95 90 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 10 5 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. 5 5 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 45 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 575 550 0 10
Spanish 885 810 5 30
Swahili 30 20 5 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 1,400 1,390 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0
Tamil 145 135 0 0
Telugu 45 40 0 0
Thai 30 30 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 40 40 0 0
Turkish 30 30 0 5
Ukrainian 65 60 0 5
Urdu 840 790 0 10
Vietnamese 35 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 190 175 0 10
Multiple responses 1,320 1,215 60 45
English and French 210 150 25 35
English and non-official language 1,040 1,045 0 0
French and non-official language 45 10 35 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 0 10
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 66,845 64,375 1,815 300
Single responses 64,925 62,595 1,715 240
English 58,120 57,290 830 0
French 880 25 855 0
Non-official languages 5,920 5,280 30 240
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 270 255 5 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 90 80 0 5
Dene 175 170 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 5,575 4,960 30 230
African languages, n.i.e. 40 25 5 10
Afrikaans 80 80 0 0
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 110 105 0 5
Arabic 505 375 10 75
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 0
Bengali 130 125 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 65 60 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 270 235 0 0
Creoles 20 5 5 10
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 30 25 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 35 30 0 5
Greek 5 5 0 0
Gujarati 645 565 0 10
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 205 200 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 20 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 15 10 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 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 25 25 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 145 135 0 0
Pashto 30 30 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 85 70 5 5
Polish 30 25 0 5
Portuguese 40 35 0 5
Romanian 60 40 0 10
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 50 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 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 405 380 0 10
Spanish 595 515 0 30
Swahili 20 15 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 615 610 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 85 80 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 35 35 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 585 535 0 10
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 75 70 0 5
Multiple responses 1,925 1,770 90 60
English and French 120 25 60 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 10 10 25
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 66,845 64,370 1,810 305
None 58,440 57,105 855 150
Single responses 8,270 7,175 930 125
English 3,445 2,830 490 100
French 890 485 395 15
Non-official languages 3,935 3,870 40 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 615 610 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 430 430 0 0
Dene 170 170 0 5
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 3,220 3,160 40 10
African languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0
Afrikaans 60 60 0 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 40 40 0 0
Arabic 335 320 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0
Bengali 30 30 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 5
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 90 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 15 15 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 60 55 0 0
Greek 15 20 0 0
Gujarati 110 105 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0
Hindi 230 225 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 25 20 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 30 30 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 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 20 20 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 90 80 5 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0
Oromo 15 10 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 65 65 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 50 50 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 15 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 135 130 5 0
Spanish 235 230 5 0
Swahili 25 15 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 560 560 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 55 55 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 15 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 15 10 0 0
Urdu 220 220 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 105 100 5 0
Multiple responses 140 90 30 25
English and French 35 0 15 20
English and non-official language 50 40 10 0
French and non-official language 55 45 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 66,850 64,370 1,810 300
English 64,375 64,370 0 0
French 1,810 0 1,810 0
English and French 300 0 0 300
Neither English nor French 365 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 1,960 0 1,810 150
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 2.9 0.0 100.0 50.0

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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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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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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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