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Wood Buffalo, ABCensus subdivision

72,326 people

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The highest and lowest Census tractsin Wood Buffalo, AB for Knowledge of languages: Somali.

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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.

These estimates come from the long-form questionnaire, which was distributed to a 25% sample of private households. They are subject to sampling variability and may differ from a full enumeration. Read more

“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

0.9%

of people in Wood Buffalo, ABCensus subdivisioncan converse in

Somali

646 of 71,780 people

0.2%

0.6%

1.1%

1.7%