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Grande Prairie, Alberta (City)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 ...
Population in 20061 ...
2006 to 2011 population change (%) ...
Total private dwellings2 ...
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 ...
Population density per square kilometre ...
Land area (square km) ...
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 28,115
0 to 4 years 2,445
5 to 9 years 1,820
10 to 14 years 1,635
15 to 19 years 1,845
15 years 350
16 years 350
17 years 335
18 years 380
19 years 430
20 to 24 years 2,710
25 to 29 years 3,435
30 to 34 years 2,830
35 to 39 years 2,275
40 to 44 years 1,840
45 to 49 years 1,910
50 to 54 years 1,745
55 to 59 years 1,295
60 to 64 years 835
65 to 69 years 495
70 to 74 years 385
75 to 79 years 260
80 to 84 years 190
85 years and over 165
Median age of the population5 30.2
% of the population aged 15 and over 79.0
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 22,215
Married or living with a common-law partner 12,660
Married (and not separated) 9,390
Living common law 3,270
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 9,550
Single (never legally married) 7,645
Separated 545
Divorced 1,105
Widowed 255
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 ...
Size of census family: 2 persons ...
Size of census family: 3 persons ...
Size of census family: 4 persons ...
Size of census family: 5 or more persons ...
Total number of census families in private households8 ...
Total couple families by family structure and number of children ...
Married couples ...
Without children at home ...
With children at home ...
1 child ...
2 children ...
3 or more children ...
Common-law couples ...
Without children at home ...
With children at home ...
1 child ...
2 children ...
3 or more children ...
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children ...
Female parent ...
1 child ...
2 children ...
3 or more children ...
Male parent ...
1 child ...
2 children ...
3 or more children ...
Total children in census families in private households ...
Under six years of age ...
6 to 14 years ...
15 to 17 years ...
18 to 24 years ...
25 years and over ...
Average number of children at home per census family ...
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 27,865
Number of persons not in census families 6,405
Living with relatives9 800
Living with non-relatives only 2,880
Living alone 2,725
Number of census family persons 21,460
Average number of persons per census family ...
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 1,335
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 265
Living with relatives9 30
Living with non-relatives only 35
Living alone 200
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 1,070
Total number of private households by household type10 ...
Census-family households ...
One-family-only households11 ...
Couple-family households12 ...
Without children ...
With children ...
Lone-parent-family households ...
Other family households13 ...
One-family households with persons not in a census family ...
Couple-family households14 ...
Without children ...
With children ...
Lone-parent-family households ...
Two-or-more-family households ...
Non-census-family households ...
One-person households ...
Two-or-more-person households ...
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 ...
Single-detached house ...
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys ...
Movable dwelling16 ...
Other dwelling17 ...
Semi-detached house ...
Row house ...
Apartment, duplex ...
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys ...
Other single-attached house ...
Total number of private households by household size18 ...
1 person ...
2 persons ...
3 persons ...
4 persons ...
5 persons ...
6 or more persons ...
Number of persons in private households ...
Average number of persons in private households ...
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 27,960
  Single responses  27,640
    English  24,800
    French  750
    Non-official languages  2,095
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 85
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  75
        Dene  10
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 1,960
        African languages, n.i.e.  10
        Afrikaans  20
        Akan (Twi)  5
        Albanian  15
        Amharic  10
        Arabic  95
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  10
        Bengali  5
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  35
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  5
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  45
        Chinese, n.o.s.  85
        Creoles  5
        Croatian  5
        Czech  10
        Danish  10
        Dutch  60
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  330
        Greek  5
        Gujarati  10
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  30
        Hungarian  5
        Ilocano  20
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  15
        Japanese  5
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  25
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  5
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  10
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  5
        Norwegian  15
        Oromo  5
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  110
        Pashto  5
        Persian (Farsi)  25
        Polish  85
        Portuguese  20
        Romanian  20
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  40
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  5
        Serbian  5
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  0
        Sindhi  5
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  10
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  60
        Spanish  150
        Swahili  5
        Swedish  5
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  300
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  10
        Telugu  5
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  10
        Ukrainian  85
        Urdu  30
        Vietnamese  10
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 50
  Multiple responses          320
    English and French  120
    English and non-official language  180
    French and non-official language  10
    English, French and non-official language 10
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 27,960
  English only 25,950
  French only 25
  English and French 1,915
  Neither English nor French 70
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 27,960
  English 27,115
  French 720
  English and French 55
  Neither English nor French 70
Official language minority (number)23 750
Official language minority (percentage)23 2.7
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 27,960
  Single responses 27,570
    English 26,395
    French 265
    Non-official languages 915
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 25
        Atikamekw   0
        Cree, n.o.s. 20
        Dene 10
        Innu/Montagnais 0
        Inuktitut 0
        Mi'kmaq 0
        Ojibway 0
        Oji-Cree 0
        Stoney 0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 870
        African languages, n.i.e. 5
        Afrikaans 20
        Akan (Twi) 0
        Albanian 5
        Amharic 5
        Arabic 45
        Armenian 0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0
        Bengali 5
        Berber languages (Kabyle) 0
        Bisayan languages 20
        Bosnian 0
        Bulgarian 0
        Burmese 5
        Cantonese 25
        Chinese, n.o.s. 40
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 5
        Czech 5
        Danish 0
        Dutch 0
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 70
        Greek 0
        Gujarati 5
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 25
        Hungarian 0
        Ilocano 15
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0
        Italian 0
        Japanese 0
        Khmer (Cambodian) 0
        Korean 15
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 0
        Latvian 0
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 5
        Malayalam 0
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 10
        Marathi 0
        Nepali 0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0
        Norwegian 0
        Oromo 10
        Panjabi (Punjabi) 90
        Pashto 5
        Persian (Farsi) 15
        Polish 25
        Portuguese 0
        Romanian 10
        Rundi (Kirundi) 0
        Russian 25
        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 50
        Spanish 85
        Swahili 0
        Swedish 0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 190
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 5
        Telugu 5
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 5
        Ukrainian 5
        Urdu 15
        Vietnamese 0
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 20
  Multiple responses         390
    English and French 60
    English and non-official language 315
    French and non-official language 5
    English, French and non-official language 10
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 27,960
  None 26,125
  Single responses  1,790
    English  635
    French  385
    Non-official languages  770
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 50
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  50
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 690
        African languages, n.i.e.  5
        Afrikaans  5
        Akan (Twi)  5
        Albanian  10
        Amharic  5
        Arabic  35
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  5
        Bengali  5
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  5
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  10
        Chinese, n.o.s.  35
        Creoles  10
        Croatian  5
        Czech  5
        Danish  0
        Dutch  25
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  125
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  15
        Hungarian  10
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  5
        Japanese  10
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  10
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  5
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  5
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  20
        Pashto  5
        Persian (Farsi)  5
        Polish  30
        Portuguese  20
        Romanian  5
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  15
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  5
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  5
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  5
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  5
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  25
        Spanish  75
        Swahili  5
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  90
        Taiwanese  5
        Tamil  5
        Telugu  5
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  20
        Urdu  10
        Vietnamese  5
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 25
  Multiple responses          50
    English and French  5
    English and non-official language  10
    French and non-official language  30
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.