| Drummondville | |
| Official Name: | French: Ville de Drummondville |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Blank Emblem Type: | Logo |
| Blank Emblem Size: | 100px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Quebec. |
| Coordinates: | 45.8833°N -101°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Centre-du-Québec |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Drummond |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | 7 July 2004 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Government Type: | Drummondville City Council |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Stéphanie Lacoste |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Drummond |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Drummond–Bois-Francs and Johnson |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Area Total Km2: | 260.10 |
| Area Land Km2: | 246.85 |
| Area Urban Km2: | 52.3 |
| Area Metro Footnotes: | [4] |
| Area Metro Km2: | 803.81 |
| Elevation M: | 365 |
| Population Total: | 79,258 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 1315.4[5] |
| Population Urban: | 72,089 |
| Population Density Urban Km2: | 1,378.4 |
| Population Metro: | 96,118 |
| Population Density Metro Km2: | 94.5 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2011-2016 |
| Population Blank1: | 5.0% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 33812 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J2A-J2E |
| Area Code: | 819 |
Drummondville is a city in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, located east of Montreal on the Saint-François River. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 79,258. The mayor of Drummondville is Stéphanie Lacoste.
Drummondville is the seat of Drummond Regional County Municipality, and of the judicial district of Drummond.[6]
Drummondville was founded in June 1815 by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Heriot. The purpose of the town was to provide a home for British soldiers in the War of 1812, and to guard the Saint-François (St Francis) River against American attacks. The town was named after Sir Gordon Drummond, the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada between 1813 and 1816.
The construction of the Hemmings Falls hydro-electric dam in 1920 brought a new wave of industrial growth to the Drummondville area.Several outlying municipalities have been amalgamated into Drummondville since the 1950s:
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Drummondville had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 247.11km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[8]
In 2021,[9] Drummondville was 92.7% White/European, 5.6% visible minorities and 1.7% Indigenous. The largest visible minority groups were Black (2.1%), Latin American (1.5%) and Arab (1.3%).
French was the mother tongue of 93.8% of the population. The next most common first languages were Spanish (1.4%), English (1.1%), and Arabic (0.9%). 0.7% of residents listed both French and English as mother tongues, while 0.4% listed both French and a non-official language.
71.9% of residents were Christian in 2021, down from 90.8% in 2011.[10] 64.4% were Catholic, 5.6% were Christian n.o.s, 0.8% were Protestant, and 1.0% belonged to other Christian denominations or Christian-related traditions. 26.0% of the population was non-religious or secular, up from 8.4% in 2011. Other religions and spiritual traditions accounted for 2.0% of the population, up from 0.8% in 2011. The largest non-Christian religion was Islam (1.7%).