| Saint-Ours | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 45.8833°N -82°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Pierre-De Saurel |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | April 17, 1991 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Sylvain Dupuis |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Richelieu |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Area Total Km2: | 61.00 |
| Area Land Km2: | 59.39 |
| Population Total: | 1721 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | 29.0 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2006-2011 |
| Population Blank1: | 1.2% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 856 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Saint-Ours is a city located in the Pierre-De Saurel Regional County Municipality of Québec (Canada), in the administrative region of Montérégie. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 1,721. Founded in 1650 and originally constituent of the Saint-Ours Parish Municipality, which merged alongside L'Immaculée-Conception-de-Saint-Ours municipality in 1991, Saint-Ours is one of the earliest settlements in Montérégie.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Ours had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 59.23km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4] Population trend:[5]
| Census | Population | Change (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,721 | 1.2% | |
| 2006 | 1,700 | 4.7% | |
| 2001 | 1,624 | 0.3% | |
| 1996 | 1,619 | 0.6% | |
| 1991 | 1,628 | N/A |
| Language | Population | Pct (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| French only | 1,650 | 97.06% | |
| English only | 25 | 1.47% | |
| Both English and French | 0 | 0.00% | |
| Other languages | 25 | 1.47% |