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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 Medicine Hat, CY
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 1 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 59,015 58,200 585 50
0 to 4 years 3,640 3,600 15 5
5 to 9 years 3,400 3,375 15 10
10 to 14 years 3,495 3,475 5 10
15 to 19 years 3,575 3,555 10 5
20 to 24 years 3,870 3,840 25 5
25 to 29 years 4,270 4,240 25 5
30 to 34 years 4,090 4,055 35 5
35 to 39 years 3,700 3,650 30 0
40 to 44 years 3,710 3,665 30 5
45 to 49 years 4,275 4,210 50 0
50 to 54 years 4,665 4,590 60 5
55 to 59 years 4,120 4,035 70 0
60 to 64 years 3,355 3,285 60 5
65 to 69 years 2,530 2,460 60 0
70 to 74 years 2,120 2,075 35 5
75 to 79 years 1,810 1,765 30 0
80 to 84 years 1,380 1,345 25 0
85 years and over 1,005 990 5 0
Median ageFootnote 2 39.3 39.1 53.6 19.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 48,480 47,750 550 30
Married or living with a common-law partner 29,155 28,690 350 20
Married (and not separated) 24,405 24,015 290 20
Living common law 4,750 4,675 60 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 19,325 19,060 195 10
Single (never legally married) 11,400 11,290 85 10
Separated 1,465 1,440 15 0
Divorced 3,695 3,630 55 0
Widowed 2,770 2,710 40 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 59,015 58,200 585 55
English only 56,620 56,625 0 0
French only 5 0 10 0
English and French 2,200 1,570 575 50
Neither English nor French 185 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 59,020 58,195 585 50
Single responses 58,565 57,775 575 40
English 53,095 53,090 0 0
French 690 125 570 0
Non-official languages 4,780 4,565 0 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 15 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 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 6 4,725 4,505 0 35
African languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 25 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 10 10 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 75 65 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 70 60 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 235 190 0 0
Creoles 20 15 0 0
Croatian 40 40 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0
Dutch 205 205 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0
Flemish 10 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 1,805 1,790 0 5
Greek 35 35 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 5
Hungarian 70 70 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Italian 65 65 0 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0
Kurdish 5 10 0 0
Lao 15 10 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 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 0 0 0
Nepali 5 10 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 60 55 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0
Polish 105 105 0 0
Portuguese 40 35 0 0
Romanian 30 25 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 65 65 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 20 25 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0
Somali 40 25 0 0
Spanish 500 455 0 15
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 230 230 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 135 130 0 0
Urdu 50 50 0 0
Vietnamese 65 55 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 45 40 0 0
Multiple responses 445 420 10 15
English and French 85 65 5 15
English and non-official language 335 340 0 0
French and non-official language 20 15 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 59,015 58,200 585 55
Single responses 58,415 57,630 575 30
English 56,925 56,470 460 0
French 135 25 110 0
Non-official languages 1,350 1,135 5 30
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 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 10 1,340 1,130 5 30
African languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 90 75 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 15 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 40 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 155 105 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0
Croatian 20 15 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 10 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 110 100 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Italian 10 10 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0
Korean 20 20 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 20 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 35 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 0
Romanian 10 5 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 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 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 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 35 30 0 0
Spanish 265 225 0 15
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 105 105 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0
Urdu 30 25 0 0
Vietnamese 40 30 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 10 10 0 0
Multiple responses 600 565 10 20
English and French 35 5 15 15
English and non-official language 560 560 0 0
French and non-official language 0 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 12 59,015 58,200 585 50
None 56,520 55,980 345 35
Single responses 2,440 2,170 235 20
English 655 550 70 15
French 420 255 165 0
Non-official languages 1,370 1,360 5 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 15 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 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 14 1,330 1,320 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 10 0 0
Arabic 45 50 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 25 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 45 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 60 65 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 410 410 0 0
Greek 20 20 0 0
Gujarati 10 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 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Italian 20 20 0 0
Japanese 20 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 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 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. 15 10 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 15 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0
Portuguese 15 15 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 0 5 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 205 205 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 85 85 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 25 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 30 30 0 0
Multiple responses 50 50 0 5
English and French 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 20 15 0 0
French and non-official language 35 30 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 59,015 58,200 585 50
English 58,200 58,200 0 0
French 585 0 585 0
English and French 50 0 0 50
Neither English nor French 180 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 610 0 585 30
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 1.0 0.0 100.0 60.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 11

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 12

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 13

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 14

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 17

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 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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011053.

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