| La Rivière-du-Nord | |
| Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
| Coordinates: | 45.8167°N -75°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Laurentides |
| Established Title: | Effective |
| Established Date: | January 1, 1983 |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Seat: | Saint-Jérôme |
| Government Type: | Prefecture |
| Leader Title: | Prefect |
| Leader Name: | Yvon Brière |
| Area Total Km2: | 466.10 |
| Area Land Km2: | 451.02 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 128,170 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Density Km2: | 284.2 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
| Population Blank1: | 11.3% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 58,580 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
La Rivière-du-Nord (The Rivière-du-Nord or The River of the North) is a regional county municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Saint-Jérôme. It is named for the river that runs through it, the Rivière du Nord.
Its population according to the 2016 Canadian Census was 128,170.[1]
There are 5 subdivisions within the RCM:
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - La Rivière-du-Nord, Quebec[2] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 119,570 | 10.35%% | 94.5% | 2,400 | 1.47% | 1.89% | 935 | 19,1% | 0.74% | 3,215 | 35.94% | 2.54% | ||||||||
| 108,350 | 13.64% | 94.85% | 2,385 | 16.06% | 2.09% | 785 | 45.37% | 0.69% | 2,415 | 6.38% | 2.11% | ||||||||
| 95,340 | 11.85% | 95,14% | 2,055 | 15.12% | 2.05% | 540 | 0.9% | 0.53% | 2,270 | 92.37% | 2.26% | ||||||||
| 85,235 | 7.94% | 96% | 1,785 | 2.46% | 2.01% | 545 | 29.65% | 0.61% | 1,180 | 31.1% | 1,33% | ||||||||
| 78,965 | n/a | 95,67% | 1,830 | n/a | 2.21% | 775 | n/a | 0.93% | 900 | n/a | 1.09% | ||||||||
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[3]