SASKATCHEWAN’S CENSUS NUMBERS

7,945 people living in Saskatche- wan knew neither English nor French 530

people knew only French 13,515

said their first official language spoken was French 28,340

Saskatchewanians had an Aboriginal language for a mother tongue 8,525

people spoke Cree most often at home 6,360

people spoke Dene most often at home 128,615

people had a non-Aboriginal language (excluding French and English) for a mother tongue 3,955

people spoke French most often at home 4.7

per cent of Saskatchewan

people are bilingual (French and English), up 10.3 per cent from 2011 2,890

people spoke Arabic most often at home 16

per cent of Saskatchewan people have a common-law union, lower than the national average of 21 per cent 24.4

per cent of 20- to 34-yearolds in Saskatchewan are living with their parents 1,845

children under age 14 are in foster care, of Saskatchewan’s 213,285 total children 1,700

children were living with relatives, aside from their parents or grandparents 820

same-sex couples lived in Saskatchewan in 2016 351,735

Saskatchewan people said they were single in 2016