| Papineau | |
| Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
| Coordinates: | 45.8833°N -78°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Outaouais |
| Established Title: | Effective |
| Established Date: | January 1, 1983 |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Seat: | Papineauville |
| Government Type: | Prefecture |
| Leader Title: | Prefect |
| Leader Name: | M. Benoit Lauzon |
| Area Total Km2: | 3,205.90 |
| Area Land Km2: | 3,016.78 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 25,149 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 8.3 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 6.5% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 16,537 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Area Code: | 819 |
Papineau is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Papineauville.
There are 25 subdivisions within the RCM:
| Name | Type | Population (2016) | Area (km2) | Density (inhab./km2) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boileau | Municipality | 335 | |||
| Bowman | Municipality | 658 | |||
| Chénéville | Municipality | 764 | |||
| Duhamel | Municipality | 430 | |||
| Fassett | Municipality | 431 | |||
| Lac-des-Plages | Municipality | 431 | |||
| Lac-Simon | Municipality | ||||
| Lochaber | Township | 415 | |||
| Lochaber-Partie-Ouest | Township | 856 | |||
| Mayo | Municipality | 601 | |||
| Montebello | Municipality | 983 | |||
| Montpellier | Municipality | ||||
| Mulgrave-et-Derry | Municipality | 369 | |||
| Namur | Municipality | 572 | |||
| Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours | Municipality | 301 | |||
| Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix | Municipality | 648 | |||
| Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette | Municipality | 727 | |||
| Papineauville | Municipality | ||||
| Plaisance | Municipality | ||||
| Ripon | Municipality | ||||
| Saint-André-Avellin | Municipality | ||||
| Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk | Municipality | 477 | |||
| Saint-Sixte | Municipality | 469 | |||
| Thurso | City | ||||
| Val-des-Bois | Municipality | 865 | |||
| Total | |||||
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the RCM of Papineau had a population of 24,308 living in 11,504 of its 16,059 total private dwellings, a change of 6.5% from its 2016 population of 22,832. With a land area of 2903.45km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
In 2021, the median age was 54.0, as opposed to 41.6 for all of Canada. French was the mother tongue of 91.2% of residents in 2021. The next most common mother tongues are English at 5.5% total, followed by Spanish and German at 0.2% each and by Portuguese at 0.1%. 1.9% reported both English and French as their first language. Additionally there were 0.1% who reported both French and a non-official language as their mother tongue and another 0.1% who reported both French, English and a non-official language as their mother tongue.
As of 2021, Indigenous peoples comprised 4.4% of the population, and visible minorities contributed 1.1%. The largest visible minority groups in the RCM of Papineau are Black (0.4%), Chinese (0.1%), and Arab (0.1%).
In 2021, 65.2% of the population identified as Catholic, while 26.1% said they had no religious affiliation. Baptists were the largest religious minority, making up 0.6% of the population. Buddhists were the largest non-Christian religious minority, making up just over 0.1% of the population.
Mother tongue from Canada 2016 Census[1]
| Language | Population | Pct (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| French only | 21,015 | 92.6% | |
| English only | 1,150 | 5.1% | |
| Both English and French | 250 | 1.1% | |
| Other languages | 270 | 1.19% |
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[3]