Statistics 2006 New

Population:

Census Division: 15	Census Sub-Division: 057
Community: 2001 - 715

Town of Birtle - Population by age group
	Male	Female	Male & Female	Percent of Population
0 - 14 years of age	60	45	115	16%
15 - 19 years of age	30	25	55	7.7%
20 - 24 years of age	15	15	35	4.9%
25 - 44 years of age	70	75	145	20.3%
45 - 64 years of age	80	80	155	21.7%
65+ years of age	80	130	210	29.4%
Total	335	385	715	100%

Climate:

    Typical prairie climate, sunshine abounds - warm summers, frosty winters
    Annual Rainfall: 36.5 cm or 14.5 in.
    Annual Snowfall: 145 cm or 58 in.
    Average Frost Free Days: 105
    Average Daily High Winter Temperature: -14C, 6.8F
    Average Daily High Summer Temperature: 25C, 77F

Geology and Soils:

     Birtle is located within the uplands of the Riding Mountain escarpment.
   The town is entirely underlain by cretaceous hard and soft-greenish shale of the Riding Mountain formation. Overlaying this are glacial deposits of powdered rock and rock fragments, interbedded clay, and till deposits which were deposited by the continental ice sheets. These glacial deposits are between 60 and 100 metres thick and form the parent material.
   The surface deposits in Birtle consist of glacial till deposits, glaciofluvial deposits.