Statistics Canada

maple leaf
 
Français  Home  Census Profile

Census Profile

Daysland, Alberta (Town)
Characteristics Total

Symbols

The following standard symbols may be found in this community profile.

For further information, read the special notes.

Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 807
Population in 20061 818
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -1.3
Total private dwellings2 352
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 329
Population density per square kilometre 461.2
Land area (square km) 1.75
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 805
0 to 4 years 40
5 to 9 years 50
10 to 14 years 50
15 to 19 years 45
15 years 15
16 years 5
17 years 5
18 years 5
19 years 10
20 to 24 years 35
25 to 29 years 35
30 to 34 years 40
35 to 39 years 45
40 to 44 years 35
45 to 49 years 55
50 to 54 years 50
55 to 59 years 55
60 to 64 years 45
65 to 69 years 45
70 to 74 years 60
75 to 79 years 40
80 to 84 years 35
85 years and over 45
Median age of the population5 47.5
% of the population aged 15 and over 82.1
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 665
Married or living with a common-law partner 415
Married (and not separated) 355
Living common law 55
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 255
Single (never legally married) 115
Separated 20
Divorced 45
Widowed 80
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 230
Size of census family: 2 persons 135
Size of census family: 3 persons 35
Size of census family: 4 persons 40
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 20
Total number of census families in private households8 230
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 200
Married couples 170
Without children at home 105
With children at home 70
1 child 25
2 children 30
3 or more children 15
Common-law couples 30
Without children at home 20
With children at home 10
1 child 5
2 children 5
3 or more children 5
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 30
Female parent 25
1 child 10
2 children 5
3 or more children 5
Male parent 5
1 child 5
2 children 5
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 215
Under six years of age 55
6 to 14 years 90
15 to 17 years 30
18 to 24 years 40
25 years and over 15
Average number of children at home per census family 0.9
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 755
Number of persons not in census families 110
Living with relatives9 0
Living with non-relatives only 10
Living alone 100
Number of census family persons 645
Average number of persons per census family 2.8
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 170
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 55
Living with relatives9 0
Living with non-relatives only 0
Living alone 45
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 120
Total number of private households by household type10 325
Census-family households 225
One-family-only households11 220
Couple-family households12 195
Without children 115
With children 75
Lone-parent-family households 25
Other family households13 5
One-family households with persons not in a census family 5
Couple-family households14 0
Without children 0
With children 0
Lone-parent-family households 0
Two-or-more-family households 0
Non-census-family households 105
One-person households 95
Two-or-more-person households 5
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 330
Single-detached house 270
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 30
Other dwelling17 25
Semi-detached house 20
Row house 0
Apartment, duplex 0
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 10
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 330
1 person 95
2 persons 130
3 persons 35
4 persons 40
5 persons 15
6 or more persons 10
Number of persons in private households 755
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 805
  Single responses  805
    English  745
    French  5
    Non-official languages  50
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 50
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  5
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  0
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  5
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  20
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  0
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  5
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  0
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  0
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  5
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  0
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  0
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  10
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses          5
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  5
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language 0
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 805
  English only 785
  French only 0
  English and French 15
  Neither English nor French 5
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 810
  English 800
  French 5
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 5
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.6
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 805
  Single responses 800
    English 790
    French 0
    Non-official languages 15
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        Atikamekw   0
        Cree, n.o.s. 0
        Dene 0
        Innu/Montagnais 0
        Inuktitut 0
        Mi'kmaq 0
        Ojibway 0
        Oji-Cree 0
        Stoney 0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 10
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 5
        Akan (Twi) 0
        Albanian 0
        Amharic 0
        Arabic 0
        Armenian 0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0
        Bengali 0
        Berber languages (Kabyle) 0
        Bisayan languages 0
        Bosnian 0
        Bulgarian 0
        Burmese 0
        Cantonese 0
        Chinese, n.o.s. 5
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 0
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 10
        Greek 0
        Gujarati 0
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 0
        Hungarian 0
        Ilocano 0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0
        Italian 0
        Japanese 0
        Khmer (Cambodian) 0
        Korean 0
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 0
        Latvian 0
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 0
        Malayalam 0
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 0
        Marathi 0
        Nepali 0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0
        Norwegian 0
        Oromo 0
        Panjabi (Punjabi) 0
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 0
        Polish 0
        Portuguese 0
        Romanian 0
        Rundi (Kirundi) 0
        Russian 0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Serbian 0
        Serbo-Croatian 0
        Shanghainese 0
        Sign languages, n.i.e. 0
        Sindhi 0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slovak 0
        Slovenian 0
        Somali 0
        Spanish 0
        Swahili 0
        Swedish 0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 0
        Telugu 0
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 0
        Ukrainian 0
        Urdu 0
        Vietnamese 0
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses         5
    English and French 0
    English and non-official language 5
    French and non-official language 0
    English, French and non-official language 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 805
  None 795
  Single responses  10
    English  0
    French  0
    Non-official languages  15
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 10
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  0
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  0
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  5
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  0
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  0
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  0
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  0
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  5
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  0
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  0
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses          0
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.