Rimouski-Neigette | |
Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
Established Title: | Effective |
Established Date: | May 26, 1982 |
Seat Type: | County seat |
Seat: | Rimouski |
Government Type: | Prefecture |
Leader Title: | Prefect |
Leader Name: | Francis Saint-Pierre |
Area Total Km2: | 2946.10 |
Area Land Km2: | 2715.17 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 56,650 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Density Km2: | 20.9 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011–2016 |
Population Blank1: | 2.8% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 28,811 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Rimouski-Neigette is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada.
The county seat is in Rimouski.
There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM:
Canada Census Mother Tongue Language – Rimouski-Neigette Regional County Municipality[2] | |||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
54,900 | 2.6% | 98.11% | 375 | 8.7% | 0.67% | 165 | 13.8% | 0.29% | 515 | 53.7% | 0.92% | ||||||||
53,495 | 4.8% | 98.48% | 345 | 9.2% | 0.64% | 145 | 52.6% | 0.27% | 335 | 48.1% | 0.62% | ||||||||
51,050 | 1.1% | 97.85% | 380 | 40.7% | 0.73% | 95 | 35.7% | 0.18% | 645 | 344.8% | 1.24% | ||||||||
50,490 | 1.4% | 99.05% | 270 | 35.7% | 0.53% | 70 | 46.2% | 0.14% | 145 | 11.5% | 0.28% | ||||||||
51,215 | n/a | 98.69% | 420 | n/a | 0.81% | 130 | n/a | 0.25% | 130 | n/a | 0.25% |
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[3]