Census 2021: Red Deerians studying the trades more than anything else

Of those, there are 46,425 (86.5%) with a high school diploma or equivalent, and 7,265 (13.5%) without.

The national marks for those aged 25 to 64 are 88.4 per cent and 11.6 per cent, respectively.

Post-secondary (ages 25 to 64)

No certificate, diploma or degree: 5,780 (10.8%) >> National: 9.9%

Post-secondary certificate, diploma or degree: 32,070 (59.7%) >> National: 67.1%
>> Below bachelor level: 20,240 (37.7%) >> National: 34.3%
>> Apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 5,885 (11.0%) >> National: 9.6%
>> Non-apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 1,660 (3.1%) >> National: 5.4%
>> Bachelor’s or higher: 11,825 (22.0%) >> National: 32.9%
>> Master’s: 1,715 (3.2%) >> National: 7.4%
>> Earned doctorate: 180 (0.3%) >> National: 1.1%”

Top fields of study for Red Deerians (ages 25 to 64)

Architecture, engineering, and related trades: 7,515
Health and related fields: 6,525
Business, management and public admin: 6,445
Social and behavioural sciences and law: 2,865
Education: 2,470

Within architecture, engineering, and related trades, the most common discipline is engineering/engineering-related technologies/technicians, with 2,015 people. Construction, and then mechanic and repair technologies were next.

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Moving on to languages used at work, the most common in Red Deer aside from English are French (125), Tagalog (100), Spanish (40) and Cantonese (35)

Nationally, the most common aside from English are French (3,986,330), Mandarin (76,040), Cantonese (50,950), Punjabi (40,840), Spanish (21,455), Indigenous languages (19,435), Korean (14,345), German (10,480), Vietnamese (9,260) and Arabic (7,190).

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(*Unless noted otherwise, the following numbers are percentages representative of Red Deer’s and Canada’s population that is 15-years-old and over)

Lastly, with the commute to work 25,660 (77.3%) Red Deerians say they commute within the city for work, while 1,220 (3.7%) are headed to a different municipality. Another 205 (0.6%) head to another province or territory.

Nationally, 59.0 per cent are staying near home, 18.5 per cent venture out of town, and 0.9 per cent are heading out of province or territory.

Of Red Deer’s labour force 15 and older who are commuters, there are 40,625 people.

Their main mode of transportation is car, truck or van, with just 6.7 per cent of all commuters 15+ indicating they’re typically a car, truck or van passenger. Nationally, the carpool rate is 6.5 per cent.

In Red Deer*, 1,320 (3.2%) people say they usually walk, and 265 (0.65%) bike, while 1,030 (2.5%) use public transit. Another 625 indicated “other method.” (*these percentages are reflective of the employed labour force population aged 15 years and over with a usual place of work or no fixed workplace address [40,625], not total population)

Nationally, 5.2 per cent walk, 1.1 per cent bike, and 7.7 per cent take transit.

The vast majority of commutes by Red Deerians are 29 minutes or less, while the highest portion of people leave for work between 7:00 and 7:59 a.m.

For more on today’s new data, visit statcan.gc.ca.

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by Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

Census 2021: Red Deerians studying the trades more than anything else

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