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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 Rocky View County, MDFootnote 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 36,425 35,805 430 60
0 to 4 years 1,815 1,775 10 0
5 to 9 years 2,360 2,340 20 0
10 to 14 years 2,890 2,855 25 10
15 to 19 years 3,030 2,995 25 5
20 to 24 years 2,150 2,130 20 5
25 to 29 years 1,215 1,200 10 0
30 to 34 years 1,400 1,380 15 5
35 to 39 years 1,925 1,900 20 5
40 to 44 years 2,735 2,680 45 10
45 to 49 years 3,415 3,350 55 5
50 to 54 years 3,890 3,815 65 5
55 to 59 years 3,250 3,200 45 5
60 to 64 years 2,440 2,400 30 5
65 to 69 years 1,585 1,540 15 0
70 to 74 years 965 940 15 0
75 to 79 years 670 655 10 0
80 to 84 years 410 400 5 0
85 years and over 265 250 0 0
Median ageFootnote 3 42.8 42.7 47.1 42.0
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 29,350 28,830 385 50
Married or living with a common-law partner 20,575 20,195 285 25
Married (and not separated) 18,865 18,535 240 25
Living common law 1,710 1,665 40 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 8,780 8,630 100 20
Single (never legally married) 6,655 6,565 65 15
Separated 455 445 5 0
Divorced 930 905 15 0
Widowed 735 710 5 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 36,420 35,800 435 60
English only 33,740 33,745 0 0
French only 5 0 5 0
English and French 2,540 2,055 430 60
Neither English nor French 140 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 36,425 35,800 435 60
Single responses 36,100 35,500 420 50
English 31,460 31,455 5 0
French 460 45 415 0
Non-official languages 4,180 3,995 10 50
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 0 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 7 4,160 3,980 5 50
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 85 80 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 110 100 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Bengali 10 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 75 70 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 165 155 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 70 65 0 0
Czech 50 50 0 5
Danish 55 55 0 0
Dutch 225 220 0 10
Estonian 0 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0
German 985 975 0 5
Greek 40 45 0 0
Gujarati 40 45 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 55 55 0 0
Hungarian 80 80 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Italian 225 220 5 5
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 130 120 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 50 45 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0
Oromo 5 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 600 540 0 5
Pashto 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 0
Polish 195 195 0 0
Portuguese 50 40 0 0
Romanian 50 35 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 50 45 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0
Sindhi 20 25 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0
Slovenian 15 10 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 125 115 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 135 135 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 5
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 10 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 90 90 0 0
Urdu 75 65 0 0
Vietnamese 65 60 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 15 15 0 0
Multiple responses 325 305 10 10
English and French 55 45 0 10
English and non-official language 240 240 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 36,425 35,800 430 60
Single responses 35,920 35,330 415 45
English 34,120 33,845 270 0
French 175 25 145 0
Non-official languages 1,635 1,460 0 45
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 1,625 1,450 0 45
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 65 60 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0
Arabic 35 25 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 15 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 60 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 35 25 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 355 340 0 5
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 15 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 25 20 0 5
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 105 90 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 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 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 35 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 420 365 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 80 80 0 0
Portuguese 20 15 0 5
Romanian 35 20 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 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 0 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 40 35 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 40 35 0 5
Vietnamese 35 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 10 5 0 0
Multiple responses 500 470 15 15
English and French 20 0 10 5
English and non-official language 455 460 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 5 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 36,425 35,800 435 60
None 33,660 33,300 210 25
Single responses 2,725 2,460 220 35
English 950 830 90 30
French 355 235 115 5
Non-official languages 1,415 1,400 10 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 0 0 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 15 1,415 1,390 15 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 75 75 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 65 0 0
Creoles 5 0 5 0
Croatian 30 25 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0
Dutch 75 75 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 235 230 0 0
Greek 30 30 0 0
Gujarati 30 25 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 40 35 0 0
Hungarian 30 30 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 115 115 0 0
Japanese 10 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 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. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 135 130 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0
Polish 60 60 0 0
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 10 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 20 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Sindhi 10 15 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 130 125 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 50 45 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 10 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 30 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 0 5 0 0
Multiple responses 40 35 5 0
English and French 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 10 10 5 0
French and non-official language 30 25 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 36,420 35,800 435 60
English 35,805 35,800 0 0
French 435 0 435 0
English and French 60 0 0 60
Neither English nor French 130 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 460 0 430 30
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.3 0.0 98.9 50.0

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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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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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