Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality | |
Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
Coordinates: | 45.2°N -87°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
Established Title: | Effective |
Established Date: | January 1, 1982 |
Seat Type: | County seat |
Seat: | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu |
Government Type: | Prefecture |
Leader Title: | Prefect |
Leader Name: | Andrée Bouchard |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 999.70 |
Area Land Km2: | 936.02 |
Population Total: | 117,443 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Density Km2: | 125.5 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
Population Blank1: | 2.7% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 52,461 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality (Upper Richelieu) is a regional county municipality in the Montérégie region in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Its seat is in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. It is named for the Richelieu River which runs south-north through it.
There are 14 subdivisions within the RCM:
Canada Census Mother Tongue - Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
108,675 | 2.3% | 93.6% | 3,645 | 5.9% | 3.1% | 1,005 | 2.6% | 0.9% | 2,825 | 32.6% | 2.4% | ||||||||
106,260 | 5.8% | 93.83% | 3,875 | 15.5% | 3.42% | 980 | 41.0% | 0.87% | 2,130 | 25.7% | 1.88% | ||||||||
100,475 | 7.8% | 93.56% | 3,355 | 10.5% | 3.12% | 695 | 4.8% | 0.65% | 2,865 | 44.7% | 2.67% | ||||||||
93,170 | 2.9% | 93.52% | 3,750 | 2.5% | 3.76% | 730 | 7.0% | 0.73% | 1,980 | 37.0% | 1.99% | ||||||||
90,585 | n/a | 93.89% | 3,660 | n/a | 3.79% | 785 | n/a | 0.81% | 1,445 | n/a | 1.50% |
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[2]