Papineau Regional County Municipality

Papineau
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 45°53′N75°03′W / 45.883°N 75.050°W / 45.883; -75.050 Coordinates: 45°53′N75°03′W / 45.883°N 75.050°W / 45.883; -75.050 [1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Outaouais
Effective	January 1, 1983
County seat	Papineauville
Government [2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	M. Benoit Lauzon
Area [2] [3]
• Total	3,205.90 km2 (1,237.80 sq mi)
• Land	3,016.78 km2 (1,164.79 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [3]
• Total	25,149
• Density	8.3/km2 (21/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	6.5%
• Dwellings	16,537
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code	819
Website	www.mrcpapineau.com

Papineau is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Papineauville.

Subdivisions

There are 25 subdivisions within the RCM: ^[2]

Name	Type	Population (2016)	Area (km2)	Density (inhab./km2)
Boileau	Municipality	335	136.33	2.5
Bowman	Municipality	658	129.30	5.1
Chénéville	Municipality	764	66.76	11.4
Duhamel	Municipality	430	434.57	1.0
Fassett	Municipality	431	12.49	34.5
Lac-des-Plages	Municipality	431	152.94	2.8
Lac-Simon	Municipality	944	97.48	9.7
Lochaber	Township	415	60.70	6.8
Lochaber-Partie-Ouest	Township	856	57.45	14.9
Mayo	Municipality	601	73.25	8.2
Montebello	Municipality	983	8.62	114.0
Montpellier	Municipality	985	249.14	4.0
Mulgrave-et-Derry	Municipality	369	293.75	1.3
Namur	Municipality	572	56.76	10.1
Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours	Municipality	301	264.97	1.1
Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix	Municipality	648	106.62	6.1
Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette	Municipality	727	117.10	6.3
Papineauville	Municipality	2,101	61.33	34.3
Plaisance	Municipality	1,088	36.15	30.1
Ripon	Municipality	1,542	131.47	11.7
Saint-André-Avellin	Municipality	3,749	137.99	27.2
Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk	Municipality	477	56.68	8.4
Saint-Sixte	Municipality	469	85.33	5.5
Thurso	City	2,818	6.28	449.0
Val-des-Bois	Municipality	865	225.42	3.8
Total		22,832	2,941.79	7.8

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the RCM of Papineau had a population of 24,308 living in 11,504 of its 16,059 total private dwellings, a change of 6.5% from its 2016 population of 22,832. With a land area of 2,903.45 km² (1,121.03 sq mi), it had a population density of 8.4/km² (21.7/sq mi) in 2021. ^[4]

In 2021, the median age was 54.0, as opposed to 41.6 for all of Canada. French was the mother tongue of 91.2% of residents in 2021. The next most common mother tongues are English at 5.5% total, followed by Spanish and German at 0.2% each and by Portugese at 0.1%. 1.9% reported both English and French as their first language. Additionally there were 0.1% who reported both French and a non-official language as their mother tongue and another 0.1% who reported both French, English and a non-official language as their mother tongue.

As of 2021, Indigenous peoples comprised 4.4% of the population, and visible minorities contributed 1.1%. The largest visible minority groups in the RCM of Papineau are Black (0.4%), Chinese (0.1%), and Arab (0.1%).

In 2021, 65.2% of the population identified as Catholic, while 26.1% said they had no religious affiliation. Baptists were the largest religious minority, making up 0.6% of the population. Buddhists were the largest non-Christian religious minority, making up just over 0.1% of the population.

Canada census – Papineau community profile

	2021	2016	2011
Population	24,308 (+6.5% from 2016)	22,832 (1.3% from 2011)	22,541 (3.1% from 2006)
Land area	2,903.45 km2 (1,121.03 sq mi)	2,941.79 km2 (1,135.83 sq mi)	2,941.82 km2 (1,135.84 sq mi)
Population density	8.4/km2 (22/sq mi)	7.8/km2 (20/sq mi)	7.7/km2 (20/sq mi)
Median age	54 (M: 54.4, F: 53.6)	52.1 (M: 52.2, F: 52.0)	49.9 (M: 49.8, F: 50.1)
Total private dwellings	11,505	15,893	14,569
Median household income		$51,196	$44,308

References: 2021 ^[5] 2016 ^[6] 2011 ^[7] earlier ^{[8] [9]}

Historical census populations

Year	Pop.	±%
1986	18,790	—
1991	19,526	+3.9%
1996	20,308	+4.0%
2001	20,367	+0.3%
2006	21,863	+7.3%
2011	22,541	+3.1%
2016	22,832	+1.3%

Mother tongue from Canada 2016 Census ^[3]

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only	21,015	92.6%
English only	1,150	5.1%
Both English and French	250	1.1%
Other languages	270	1.19%

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: ^[10]

Autoroutes A-50

Principal Highways R-148

Secondary Highways R-307 R-309 R-315 R-317 R-321 R-323

External Routes None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

1. "Reference number 141047 in Banque de noms de lieux du Québec". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
2. "Geographic code 800 in the official Répertoire des municipalités". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
3. "Census Profile, 2021 Census: Papineau, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec + Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, Municipalité [Census subdivision], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
4. "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
5. "2021 Community Profiles". 2021 Canadian Census . Statistics Canada. February 4, 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
6. "2016 Community Profiles". 2016 Canadian Census . Statistics Canada. August 12, 2021. Retrieved 2019-12-20.
7. "2011 Community Profiles". 2011 Canadian Census . Statistics Canada. March 21, 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-20.
8. "2006 Community Profiles". 2006 Canadian Census . Statistics Canada. August 20, 2019.
9. "2001 Community Profiles". 2001 Canadian Census . Statistics Canada. July 18, 2021.
10. "Official Transport Quebec Road Map". Archived from the original on 2011-02-24. Retrieved 2009-05-30.

External links

• Regional municipality website