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{{Infobox settlement
| name                            = Mascouche
| official_name                   = 
| settlement_type                 = [[City (Quebec)|City]]
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| map_caption                     = Location (red) within Les Moulins RCM
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| pushpin_map_caption             = Location in central Quebec
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| subdivision_type1               = [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Province]]
| subdivision_name1               = {{QC}}
| subdivision_type2               = [[Region (Quebec)|Region]]
| subdivision_name2               = [[Lanaudière]]
| subdivision_type3               = [[Regional county municipality|RCM]]
| subdivision_name3               = [[Les Moulins Regional County Municipality|Les Moulins]]
| established_title               = Settled
| established_date                = 
| established_title1              = Constituted
| established_date1               = July 1, 1855
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| government_type                 = 
| leader_title                    = Mayor
| leader_name                     = [[Guillaume Tremblay]]
| leader_title1                   = [[List of Canadian federal electoral districts|Federal riding]]
| leader_name1                    = [[Montcalm (federal electoral district)|Montcalm]]
| leader_title2                   = [[List of Quebec provincial electoral districts|Prov. riding]]
| leader_name2                    = [[Masson (provincial electoral district)|Masson]]
| area_footnotes                  = <ref name="mamrot">[http://www.mamrot.gouv.qc.ca/repertoire-des-municipalites/fiche/municipalite/64015/ Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?DGUIDlist=2021A00052464015&GENDERlist=1&HEADERlist=0&Lang=F&STATISTIClist=1&SearchText=Mascouche|title = Tableau des données, Profil du recensement, Recensement de la population de 2021|date = February 9, 2022}}</ref>
| area_total_km2                  = 107.70
| area_land_km2                   = 106.89
| area_water_km2                  = 
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| elevation_m                     = 
| population_footnotes            = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?DGUIDlist=2021A00052464015&GENDERlist=1&HEADERlist=0&Lang=F&STATISTIClist=1&SearchText=Mascouche|title = Tableau des données, Profil du recensement, Recensement de la population de 2021|date = February 9, 2022}}</ref>
| population_total                = 51183
| population_as_of                = 2021
| population_density_km2          = 478.8
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| population_blank1               = {{increase}} 9.6%
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| timezone                        = [[Eastern Time Zone|EST]]
| utc_offset                      = −5
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| utc_offset_DST                  = −4
| postal_code_type                = [[Canadian postal code|Postal code(s)]]
| postal_code                     = [[List of J postal codes of Canada|J7K, J7L]]
| area_codes                       = [[Area codes 450 and 579|450 and 579]]
| blank_name                      = Highways <br>{{jct|state=QC|A|25}}
| blank_info                      = <br> {{jct|state=QC|QC|125}}
| website                         = {{URL|https://mascouche.ca/}}
| footnotes                       = 
}}

'''Mascouche''' ({{IPAc-en|m|æ|s|ˈ|k|uː|ʃ}}; {{IPA|fr|maskuʃ|lang}}) is an [[Greater Montreal|off-island suburb]] of [[Montreal]], in southern [[Quebec]], Canada. The city is located on the Mascouche River within the [[Les Moulins Regional County Municipality]] and has a population of 51,183,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?DGUIDlist=2021A00052464015&GENDERlist=1&HEADERlist=0&Lang=F&STATISTIClist=1&SearchText=Mascouche|title = Tableau des données, Profil du recensement, Recensement de la population de 2021|date = February 9, 2022}}</ref> ranking 20th among Quebec municipalities.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Gagnon|first1=Sylvie |last2=Tétreault |first2=François |last3=Coutu |first3=Jean-Claude |last4= Martel |first4=Claude |author5=Société d'histoire de Mascouche | title=Le Domaine seigneurial de Mascouche|isbn=978-2-9809653-3-3|oclc=1126650457|edition=1st |language=fr  |publisher=Société de développement et d'animation de Mascouche (SODAM) |location=Mascouche, Québec|date=2019}}</ref>

The name comes from [[Algonquian languages|Algonquin]] word {{lang|alg|maskutchew}} meaning "bear plain" in singular. Compare plural form to {{lang|alg|maskutew}} for the [[Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality]] located nearby.

==History==
Mascouche (then known as Saint-Henri-de-Mascouche)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://histoire-du-quebec.ca/mascouche|title=Mascouche « Histoire du Québec|date=March 29, 2015 }}</ref> received city status on December 9, 1970, under mayor Gilles Forest.

On June 21, 2021, the city was struck by an EF2 tornado, killing one person.

==Infrastructure==
[[Montréal/Mascouche Airport]], the largest regional airport in Quebec, was three kilometres southeast of the city. It has now been replaced by the CentrOparc, a business district with the ambition of joining a transit-oriented urban development (DOT).

Autoroutes [[Quebec Autoroute 640|640]] and [[Quebec Autoroute 25|25]], both major national transportation routes, meet just south of the centre of the city.

Mascouche is connected to Montreal's [[Montreal Central Station|Central Station]] by commuter rail via the [[Mascouche station]] of the [[Réseau de transport métropolitain]]'s [[Mascouche line]].

L'Étang-du-Grand-Coteau, an urban park situated in the city centre on Mascouche Boulevard, has the same area as [[Mount Royal Park#Mount Royal Park|Mount Royal Park]] in Montreal.

== Demographics ==
{{stack|{{Historical populations
| title= <small>Historical Census Data - Mascouche, Quebec</small><ref name="scpast">Statistics Canada: [[Canada 1996 Census|1996]], [[Canada 2001 Census|2001]], [[Canada 2006 Census|2006]], [[Canada 2011 Census|2011]], [[Canada 2021 Census|2021]], [[Canada 2021 Census|2021]] census</ref>
| percentages = 
| shading = off
| align = none
| cols = 
| 1991 |25828
| 1996 |28097
| 2001 |29556
| 2006 |33764
| 2011 |42491
| 2016 |46692
| 2021 |51183
| footnote = 
}}}}

In the [[2021 Canadian census|2021 Census of Population]] conducted by [[Statistics Canada]], Mascouche had a population of {{val|51183|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|19981|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|20290|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:51183-46692}}|46692|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|46692|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|106.89|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|51183|106.89|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.<ref name=2021census>{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000202&geocode=A000224 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=August 29, 2022}}</ref>
{{Canada census
 |location = Mascouche
 |2021_population=51,183 | 2021_pop_delta=+9.6  | 2021_land_area=106.89 | 2021_pop_density=478.8
 |2021_median_age=40.4 | 2021_median_age_m=39.6 | 2021_median_age_f=41.2
 |2021_total_pvt_dwell=20,290 |2021_occ_pvt_dwell=19,981 |2021_mean_hh_income=93,000 
 |2021_geocode=2021A00052464015 | 2021_access_date=2023-10-19
 |2011_population=42,491 |2011_pop_delta=+25.8 |2011_land_area=106.64 |2011_pop_density=398.4
 |2011_median_age=36.5 |2011_median_age_m=36.2 |2011_median_age_f=36.9
 |2011_total_pvt_dwell=16,290 |2011_mean_hh_income=70,673 |2011_access_date=2014-05-18
 |2006_population=33,764 | 2006_pop_delta=+14.2 | 2006_land_area=106.64 | 2006_pop_density=316.6
 |2006_median_age=36.6 | 2006_median_age_m=36.3 | 2006_median_age_f=36.9
 |2006_total_pvt_dwell=12,398 | 2006_mean_hh_income=63,780 | 2006_access_date=2014-05-18
 |2001_population=29,556 | 2001_pop_delta=+5.2 | 2001_land_area=106.63 | 2001_pop_density=277.2
 |2001_median_age=35.3 | 2001_median_age_m=35.0 | 2001_median_age_f=35.6
 |2001_total_pvt_dwell=10,102 |2001_mean_hh_income=53,499 | 2001_access_date=2014-05-18
 |notes=
}}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="19"|Canada Census Mother Tongue - Mascouche, Quebec<ref name="scpast"/>
|-
! Census
|
! Total
|colspan="1"| 
!colspan="3"|{{center|French}}
|colspan="1"|
!colspan="3"|{{center|English}}
|colspan="1"|
!colspan="3"|{{center|French & English}}
|colspan="1"|
!colspan="3"|{{center|Other}}
|-
! Year
|
! Responses
| 
! Count
! Trend
! Pop %
|
! Count
! Trend
! Pop %
|
! Count
! Trend
! Pop %
|
! Count
! Trend
! Pop %
|-
| {{center|2016}}
|
| {{center|46 375}}
|
| 42 740
| {{increase}} 7.03%
| 92.10%
|
| 1 150
| {{increase}} 12.17%
| 2.47%
|
| 355
| {{increase}} 120.0%
| 0.76%
|
| 1 840
| {{increase}} 39.39%
| 3.96%
|-
| {{center|2011}}
|
| {{center|42,185}}
|
| 39,580
| {{increase}} 25.8%
| 93.82%
|
| 1,010
| {{increase}} 5.2%
| 2.39%
|
| 275
| {{increase}} 29.09%
| 0.65%
|
| 1,320
| {{increase}} 26.3%
| 3.13%
|-
| {{center|2006}}
|
| {{center|33,600}}
|
| 31,470
| {{increase}} 13.4%
| 93.66%
|
| 960
| {{increase}} 17.1%
| 2.86%
|
| 125
| {{decrease}} 40.5%
| 0.37%
|
| 1,045
| {{increase}} 111.1%
| 3.11%
|-
| {{center|2001}}
|
| {{center|29,285}}
|
| 27,760
| {{increase}} 5.0%
| 94.79%
|
| 820
| {{decrease}} 9.4%
| 2.80%
|
| 210
| {{increase}} 82.6%
| 0.72%
|
| 495
| {{increase}} 3.1%
| 1.69%
|-
| {{center|1996}}
|
| {{center|27,930}}
|
| 26,430
| n/a
| 94.63%
|
| 905
| n/a
| 3.24%
|
| 115
| n/a
| 0.41%
|
| 480
| n/a
| 1.72%
|}

==Mayors==
#André Duval (1955–1965)
#Gilles Forest (1965–1983)
#Bernard Patenaude (1983–1992)
#Richard Marcotte (1992–2012)
#Denise Paquette (2012–2013)
#[[Guillaume Tremblay]] (2013–present)

==Education==
{{expand section|date=September 2017}}
The [[Commission scolaire des Affluents]] operates Francophone public schools. They include:

Primary schools:
*L'école Aux 4 Vents
*L'école De la Source
*L'école La Mennais
*L'école des Hauts-Bois
*L'école Soleil-Levant
*L'école Le Rucher
*L'école de La Seigneurie

Secondary schools :
* [[École secondaire Le Prélude]]
* [[École secondaire Du Coteau]]

One professional school, École L'Impact.

[[Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board]] operates Anglophone public schools:
* Pinewood Elementary School in Mascouche serves the western portion<ref>"[http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/docs/Transportation%20maps%20zone/155%20-%20WEB%20PINEWOOD.pdf PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY ZONE]." [[Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board]]. Retrieved on September 17, 2017.</ref>
* Franklin Hill Elementary School in [[Repentigny, Quebec|Repentigny]] serves the eastern portion<ref>"[http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/docs/Transportation%20maps%20zone/179%20-%20WEB%20FRANKLIN%20HILL.pdf FRANKLIN HILL ELEMENTARY ZONE]." [[Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board]]. Retrieved on September 17, 2017.</ref>
* [[Rosemere High School]] (all areas) in [[Rosemere, Quebec|Rosemere]]<ref>"[http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/docs/Transportation%20maps%20zone/187%20-%20WEB%20ROSEMERE%20HS.pdf Rosemere High School Zone]." [[Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board]]. Retrieved on December 8, 2014.</ref>

==Famous residents==
Mascouche is the hometown of baseball player [[Éric Gagné]].

It is also [[Émilie Mondor]]'s hometown, a Canadian Olympic athlete, who was a two-time national champion in the women's 5,000 metres.

==See also==
*[[Mascouche River]]
*[[Saint Pierre River (Mascouche)]]
*[[Les Moulins Regional County Municipality]]
*[[List of cities in Quebec]]

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="toponymie">{{toponymie |39528}}</ref>
}}

==External links==
*{{Official website|https://mascouche.ca/}}
{{Geographic Location (8-way)
 | title = Adjacent Municipal Subdivisions
 | Centre    = Mascouche
 | North     = [[Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Quebec|Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan]]
 | Northeast = [[L'Épiphanie, Quebec|L'Épiphanie]]
 | East      = [[Repentigny, Quebec|Repentigny]]
 | Southeast = 
 | South     = [[Terrebonne, Quebec|Terrebonne]]
 | Southwest = 
 | West      = [[Terrebonne, Quebec|Terrebonne]]
 | Northwest = 
}}
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