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Area

Medicine Hat, ABCensus subdivision

63,260 people

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Topic

First language learned at home in childhood and still understood.

Medicine Hat, AB

Single responses
- Official languages
- Non-official languages
  - Indigenous languages
  - Non-Indigenous languages
Multiple responses

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Percentages are computed only over the population in private households, which excludes residents of collective dwellings such as hospitals, long-term care facilities, prisons, and university residences. A dissemination area dominated by such a facility can have a much smaller percentage denominator than its overall population suggests.

“n.o.s.” means “not otherwise specified”: a broader group reported without a specific subcategory. “n.i.e.” means “not included elsewhere”: a residual catch-all for entries outside the main published list. Read more

To protect confidentiality, Statistics Canada randomly rounds census counts up or down to a multiple of 5 or 10. Totals are rounded independently of their parts, so sub-totals may not match the total and percentages may not add up to 100%. Read more

8.1%

of people in Medicine Hat, ABCensus subdivisionhave a mother tongue of

Non-Indigenous languages

4,989 of 61,980 people

7.7%

19.2%

33.8%

51.4%

70.8%