Papineau Regional County Municipality

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Papineau (Template:IPA) is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Papineauville.

Subdivisions

There are 25 subdivisions within the RCM:<ref name="mamrot"/>

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 Template:Convert, it had a population density of Template:Pop density in 2021.<ref name="2021census">Template:Cite web</ref>

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.

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Mother tongue from Canada 2016 Census<ref name="census2021"/>

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:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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