Papineau Regional County Municipality

Papineau
Regional county municipality
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 (French pronunciation: [papino] ) 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 Portuguese 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)
Private dwellings	11,505 (total)	15,893 (total)	14,569 (total)
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. "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 141047". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
2. "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 800". 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