Demographics
| Population history | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1901 | 323 | — |
| 1906 | 1,418 | +339.0% |
| 1911 | 2,118 | +49.4% |
| 1916 | 2,203 | +4.0% |
| 1921 | 2,328 | +5.7% |
| 1926 | 2,021 | −13.2% |
| 1931 | 2,344 | +16.0% |
| 1936 | 2,384 | +1.7% |
| 1941 | 2,924 | +22.7% |
| 1946 | 4,042 | +38.2% |
| 1951 | 7,575 | +87.4% |
| 1956 | 12,338 | +62.9% |
| 1961 | 19,612 | +59.0% |
| 1966 | 26,171 | +33.4% |
| 1971 | 27,674 | +5.7% |
| 1976 | 32,184 | +16.3% |
| 1981 | 46,393 | +44.1% |
| 1986 | 54,425 | +17.3% |
| 1991 | 58,145 | +6.8% |
| 1996 | 60,075 | +3.3% |
| 2001 | 67,707 | +12.7% |
| 2006 | 82,772 | +22.3% |
| 2011 | 90,564 | +9.4% |
| Source: Statistics Canada |
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| Visible minorities and Aboriginal population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada 2006 Census | Population | % of Total Population | |
| Visible minority group |
South Asian | 630 | 0.8% |
| Chinese | 895 | 1.1% | |
| Black | 680 | 0.8% | |
| Filipino | 1,290 | 1.6% | |
| Latin American | 1,410 | 1.7% | |
| Arab | 110 | 0.1% | |
| Southeast Asian | 300 | 0.4% | |
| West Asian | 100 | 0.1% | |
| Korean | 55 | 0.1% | |
| Japanese | 140 | 0.2% | |
| Other visible minority | 40 | 0% | |
| Mixed visible minority | 155 | 0.2% | |
| Total visible minority population | 5,815 | 7.1% | |
| Aboriginal group |
First Nations | 915 | 1.1% |
| Métis | 2,535 | 3.1% | |
| Inuit | 35 | 0% | |
| Total Aboriginal population | 3,600 | 4.4% | |
| White | 71,955 | 88.4% | |
| Total population | 81,370 | 100% | |
In the 2011 Census, the City of Red Deer had a population of 90,564 living in 36,346 of its 38,789 total dwellings, a 8.9% change from its 2006 adjusted population of 83,154. With a land area of 104.29 km2 (40.27 sq mi), it had a population density of 868.39/km2 (2,249.11/sq mi) in 2011.
The population of the City of Red Deer according to its 2011 municipal census is 91,877, a two-percent increase over its 2010 municipal census population of 90,084.
In 2006, Red Deer had a population of 82,772 living in 33,894 dwellings, a 22.0% increase from 2001. The city has a land area of 69.23 km2 (26.73 sq mi) and a population density of 1,195.6 /km2 (3,097 /sq mi).
Nearly ninety percent of residents spoke English as a first language while 1.7 percent spoke Spanish and 1.6% spoke French. The next most common languages were Tagalog (Filipino) at 1.1 percent, German at 1.0 percent, and Chinese at 0.8 percent, followed by Dutch at 0.6%, Ukrainian at 0.4 percent, and Vietnamese at 0.3 percent.
About 4.4 percent of residents identified as aboriginal at the time of the 2006 census.
Red Deer is home to almost 1,800 recent immigrants (arriving between 2001 and 2006) who now make up just more than two percent of the population. About sixteen percent of these immigrants came from the Philippines, while about 14% came from Colombia, 8% came from India, seven percent came from the United States, and about five percent from each of South Africa and the United Kingdom, and about four percent from El Salvador.
Almost seventy-two percent of the residents are identified as Christian and over twenty-six percent said they had no religious affiliation for the 2001 Census. For specific denominations Statistics Canada counted 14,660 Roman Catholics (22 percent), and 10,970 United Church (16.5 percent), 3,720 Anglicans (5.6 percent), 3,065 Lutherans (4.6 percent), as well as about 1,305 Baptists (2 percent), and about 1,200 Pentecostals (1.8 percent), about 1,060 Presbyterians (1.6 percent), about 905 for the Christian and Missionary Alliance (1.5 percent), and about 650 Jehovah's Witnesses (1.0 percent), as well as about 585 for the Evangelical Missionary Church (0.9 percent) and 455 Mormons (0.7 percent ).
In a July 2007 analysis of demographic information from the 2006 Federal Census prepared by Environics Analytics, Red Deer was the city most closely resembling the country as a whole.
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