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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 High RiverFootnote 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 12,855 12,630 150 5
0 to 4 years 815 800 0 5
5 to 9 years 760 755 0 0
10 to 14 years 725 720 5 0
15 to 19 years 745 740 0 0
20 to 24 years 625 620 0 0
25 to 29 years 765 750 5 0
30 to 34 years 885 860 10 0
35 to 39 years 825 810 10 0
40 to 44 years 805 795 5 0
45 to 49 years 865 845 15 0
50 to 54 years 920 900 20 0
55 to 59 years 830 815 15 0
60 to 64 years 895 880 10 0
65 to 69 years 760 740 15 0
70 to 74 years 610 590 15 0
75 to 79 years 500 490 5 0
80 to 84 years 320 315 0 0
85 years and over 210 200 5 0
Median ageFootnote 4 41.7 41.5 53.2 12.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 5 10,545 10,360 135 0
Married or living with a common-law partner 6,980 6,840 105 0
Married (and not separated) 5,990 5,875 80 0
Living common law 990 965 25 0
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 3,565 3,515 40 0
Single (never legally married) 1,990 1,975 15 0
Separated 310 300 0 0
Divorced 685 670 10 0
Widowed 585 570 10 0
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 6 12,855 12,630 150 5
English only 12,085 12,085 0 0
French only 0 0 0 0
English and French 690 535 150 5
Neither English nor French 70 5 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 12,850 12,630 150 10
Single responses 12,735 12,520 150 5
English 11,400 11,400 0 0
French 180 30 150 0
Non-official languages 1,155 1,085 0 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 7 5 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 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 8 1,140 1,070 0 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 55 50 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 30 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 10 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0
Danish 5 10 0 0
Dutch 90 90 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 185 180 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 10 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 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 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 5 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0
Polish 20 15 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 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 5 5 0 5
Slovenian 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0
Spanish 225 185 0 5
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 200 205 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 35 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 9 15 10 0 0
Multiple responses 120 110 5 5
English and French 25 20 0 5
English and non-official language 90 90 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 10 12,850 12,630 150 5
Single responses 12,670 12,455 140 5
English 12,085 11,965 125 0
French 20 0 20 0
Non-official languages 560 490 0 5
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 11 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 12 565 490 0 5
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 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 20 15 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 5 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 15 15 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 10 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 5 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 5 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) 10 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 0 5 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) 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Spanish 185 145 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 165 165 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 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 20 20 0 0
Vietnamese 15 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 13 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 185 175 5 5
English and French 10 0 5 0
English and non-official language 170 175 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 14 12,855 12,630 150 5
None 12,235 12,075 100 5
Single responses 605 540 55 5
English 250 230 15 0
French 100 65 40 0
Non-official languages 250 250 0 0
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 15 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 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 16 245 245 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0
Dutch 25 25 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 35 35 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 5 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 5 10 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 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 5 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0
Polish 0 5 0 0
Portuguese 0 5 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 0 0 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 40 40 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 40 40 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 5 5 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0
Vietnamese 5 10 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 17 10 5 0 0
Multiple responses 15 15 0 0
English and French 0 5 0 0
English and non-official language 5 5 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 18 12,855 12,630 150 5
English 12,630 12,630 0 0
French 150 0 150 0
English and French 5 0 0 10
Neither English nor French 65 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 19 155 0 150 5
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 20 1.2 0.0 100.0 100.0

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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

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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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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