Saskatoon - Demographics

Demographics

Historical populations
Year	Pop.	±%
1901	113	—
1911	12,004	+10523.0%
1921	25,739	+114.4%
1931	43,291	+68.2%
1941	42,320	−2.2%
1951	53,268	+25.9%
1961	95,526	+79.3%
1971	126,449	+32.4%
1981	154,210	+22.0%
1991	186,058	+20.7%
1996	193,653	+4.1%
2001	196,811	+1.6%
2006	202,340	+2.8%
2011	222,189	+9.8%

Canada 2006 Census		Population	% of Total Population
Visible minority group	South Asian	2,210	1.1
	Chinese	4,185	2.1
	Black	1,825	0.9
	Filipino	1,855	0.9
	Latin American	1,045	0.5
	Southeast Asian	1,005	0.5
	Other visible minority	2,470	1.3
Total visible minority population		14,595	7.3
Aboriginal group	First Nations	10,855	5.4
	Métis	8,605	4.3
	Inuit	60	0
Total Aboriginal population		19,820	9.9
White		164,970	82.8
Total population		199,385	100

The 2011 census listed Saskatoon with a population of 222,189, which grew 9.8 per cent from 2006. A civic estimate at the end of 2011 had Saskatoon's population at 234,200. and Saskatoon's CMA population as 272,000. A study released in July 2008 found that Saskatoon's population fell by approximately 2,000 people during the previous sixteen months, as more people move out of the city proper and into "bedroom communities" and adjacent Alberta. At the end of 2008, the City of Saskatoon claimed a population of 209,400.

According to the 2006 census, 18% of the population consists of youths under the age of 15, while those over 65 constitute 13% of the population. The median age of Saskatoon residents is 35.5 years of age, four years younger than Canada as a whole.

Canada census – Saskatoon Community Profile

	2011	2006	2001

Population: Land area: Population density: Median age: Total private dwellings: Mean household income:	222,189 (9.8% from 2006) 209.56 km2 (80.91 sq mi) 1,060.3 /km2 (2,746 /sq mi) 96,257	202,340 (+2.8% from 2001) 170.83 km2 (65.96 sq mi) 1,184.4 /km2 (3,068 /sq mi) 35.9 (M: 34.2, F: 37.4) 89,646 $49,313	196,811 (1.6% from 1996) 148.34 km2 (57.27 sq mi) 1,326.8 /km2 (3,436 /sq mi) 34.3 (M: 33.1, F: 35.5) 84,281 $41,991

References: 2011 2006 2001

The above land area figure was provided by the City of Saskatoon in January 2006 and takes into account recent annexations up to that point. It does not include the two large annexations of land that occurred in the summer of 2010. These portions of land have been zoned under the provincial land management acts.

In terms of race, according to the 2001 census, 190,120 or 85.4% of the city's population were white Canadians, 19,900 or 8.9% were Aboriginals, with less than 5% belonging to other visible minority Canadians such as Han Chinese, South Asians, etc. combined.

Some 78.5% of Saskatoon's inhabitants profess to be Christian, mostly Protestant (40.1%) and Roman Catholic (32.5%). Another 19.6% of Saskatoon's inhabitants do not profess a religious faith at all. Minority faiths include Sikhism, Buddhism (0.7%), Judaism, Hinduism, and Islam (0.6%).