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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 Okotoks, TFootnote 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 24,510 24,090 345 40
0 to 4 years 2,015 1,990 10 0
5 to 9 years 2,055 2,035 20 0
10 to 14 years 2,000 1,980 15 0
15 to 19 years 1,910 1,900 5 0
20 to 24 years 1,310 1,300 10 0
25 to 29 years 1,470 1,455 15 0
30 to 34 years 1,845 1,815 30 0
35 to 39 years 2,130 2,080 40 10
40 to 44 years 1,950 1,915 25 5
45 to 49 years 1,910 1,875 25 5
50 to 54 years 1,750 1,700 40 10
55 to 59 years 1,380 1,340 35 0
60 to 64 years 975 950 20 0
65 to 69 years 725 695 25 0
70 to 74 years 430 420 10 0
75 to 79 years 295 285 5 0
80 to 84 years 195 195 0 0
85 years and over 165 165 5 0
Median ageFootnote 3 34.1 34.0 44.1 39.8
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 4 18,440 18,085 295 35
Married or living with a common-law partner 12,325 12,050 235 30
Married (and not separated) 10,825 10,600 190 25
Living common law 1,500 1,450 40 5
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 6,110 6,035 60 10
Single (never legally married) 4,180 4,140 30 10
Separated 480 465 10 0
Divorced 935 915 15 0
Widowed 520 510 10 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 5 24,510 24,090 350 40
English only 22,895 22,895 0 0
French only 15 0 15 0
English and French 1,570 1,195 330 40
Neither English nor French 30 0 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 24,510 24,090 350 40
Single responses 24,335 23,930 340 35
English 22,610 22,610 0 0
French 370 35 340 0
Non-official languages 1,355 1,285 5 40
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 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 7 1,340 1,275 0 35
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 40 40 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 30 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0
Dutch 140 130 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 245 240 0 5
Greek 0 5 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 30 35 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 30 30 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 0 5
Marathi 5 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 60 50 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 65 60 0 0
Portuguese 20 20 0 0
Romanian 15 10 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 40 40 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 145 130 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 135 130 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 15 0 0
Ukrainian 55 50 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 8 15 10 0 0
Multiple responses 170 160 5 5
English and French 45 35 5 5
English and non-official language 115 115 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 9 24,505 24,090 345 40
Single responses 24,300 23,890 340 35
English 23,715 23,520 195 0
French 155 15 150 0
Non-official languages 425 360 0 35
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 11 425 360 0 40
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 0 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 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 20 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0
Czech 5 10 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 50 35 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 25 25 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 15 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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 30 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 15 0 0
Portuguese 0 5 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 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 55 40 0 10
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 65 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 12 0 5 0 0
Multiple responses 210 195 5 5
English and French 15 5 5 5
English and non-official language 190 190 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 5 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 13 24,505 24,090 350 45
None 23,475 23,245 185 25
Single responses 1,005 825 160 15
English 290 195 80 10
French 220 140 70 5
Non-official languages 495 490 0 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 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 5 5 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 480 475 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 20 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 5 5 0
Armenian 5 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 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 15 15 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0
Dutch 40 35 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 90 90 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 10 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 10 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 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 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 15 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 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 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 90 85 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 16 10 10 0 0
Multiple responses 25 20 5 0
English and French 0 5 0 0
English and non-official language 5 5 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 17 24,510 24,090 345 45
English 24,095 24,090 0 0
French 345 0 350 0
English and French 40 0 0 40
Neither English nor French 30 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 18 370 0 345 25
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 19 1.5 0.0 100.0 55.6

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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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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-XCB2011053.

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