| Communauté métropolitaine de Québec | |
| Other Name: | Quebec Metropolitan Community |
| Settlement Type: | Metropolitan area |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Central Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Capital National |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Coordinates: | 46.8167°N -84°W |
| Image Blank Emblem: | Logo CMQ.jpg |
| Blank Emblem Size: | 250px |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 3,499.46 |
| Population Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population Total: | 839,311 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 239.8 |
| Demographics Type2: | GDP |
| Demographics2 Title1: | Quebec |
| Demographics2 Info1: | CA$47.9billion (2020)[3] |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code prefixes |
| Postal Code: | G |
| Area Code: | 418, 581 |
The Communauté métropolitaine de Québec (CMQ), or Quebec Metropolitan Community, is an administrative division of the province of Quebec, comprising the metropolitan area of Quebec City and Lévis. The CMQ is one of the two metropolitan communities of Quebec.
See main article: Communauté urbaine de Québec. Effective January 1, 1970, the Québec Urban Community (French: Communauté urbaine de Québec) ("CUQ") was established,[4] which governed the area surrounding Quebec City on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. Together with the CUQ, the Québec Urban Community Transit Commission (French: Commission de transport de la Communauté urbaine de Québec) ("CTCUQ") and the Greater Québec Water Purification Board (French: Bureau d'assainissement des eaux du Québec Métropolitain) ("BAEQM") were also established. Each of the three covered different groups of municipalities:
| Historical county | Municipality | CUQ[5] | CTCUQ[6] | BAEQM[7] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlesbourg-Est | |||||
| Charlesbourg-Ouest | |||||
| Courville | |||||
| Duberger | |||||
| Giffard | |||||
| Parish of L'Ancienne-Lorette | |||||
| Montmorency | |||||
| Neufchâtel | |||||
| Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides | |||||
| Orsainville | |||||
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux | |||||
| Val-St-Michel | |||||
| Villeneuve | |||||
| Montmorency No 1 County |
The CUQ was replaced by the CMQ on January 1, 2002.[8] The CMQ exercised jurisdiction over a wider geographical area.
Quebec was amalgamated with the cities of Beauport, Cap-Rouge, Charlesbourg, L'Ancienne-Lorette, Lac-Saint-Charles, Loretteville, Saint-Émile, Sainte-Foy, Sillery, Val-Bélair, Vanier and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures. In the 2006 demerger, L'Ancienne-Lorette and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures regained separate status.
Lévis was amalgamated with Charny, Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Saint-Nicolas, Saint-Rédempteur, Saint-Romuald, Pintendre, Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville and Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy.
| Regional county municipality or urban agglomeration(where applicable) | In Metropolitan Community | In CMA only | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban agglomeration of Quebec City | |||
| Lévis (Equivalent territory)[14] | |||
| Bellechasse Regional County Municipality | |||
| La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality | |||
| L'Île-d'Orléans Regional County Municipality | |||
| La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality | |||
| La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality | |||
| Lotbinière Regional County Municipality | |||
| Portneuf Regional County Municipality | |||
| Canada Census Mother Tongue – Quebec city, Quebec[16] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 741,010 | 3.24%% | 92.62% | 10,965 | 1.06% | 1.41% | 3,775 | 14.56% | 0.49% | 29,900 | 35.41% | 5.04% | ||||||||
| 717,770 | 6.94%% | 93,74% | 10,850 | 5.85% | 1.42% | 3,295 | 55.06% | 0.43% | 22,080 | 6.87% | 2.88% | ||||||||
| 671,145 | 3.59% | 95.31% | 10,250 | 5.13% | 1.46% | 2,125 | 21.73% | 0.3% | 20,660 | 77.18% | 2.93% | ||||||||
| 647,920 | 1.7% | 96,14% | 9,750 | 18.31% | 1.44% | 2,715 | 6.6% | 0.40% | 11,665 | 5.19% | 1.73% | ||||||||
| 637,150 | n/a | 94,83% | 11,935 | n/a | 1.77% | 2,545 | n/a | 0.37% | 11,080 | n/a | 1.64% | ||||||||
