| Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Beauharnois-Salaberry |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | July 1, 1855 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Jean-François Gendron |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Beauharnois—Salaberry |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Beauharnois |
| Area Footnotes: | [2] |
| Area Total Km2: | 62.29 |
| Area Land Km2: | 57.69 |
| Population Total: | 1852 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 32.1 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop (2016-21) |
| Population Blank1: | 12.0% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 896 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J0S 1W0 |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka is a municipality of Quebec, Canada, located within the Beauharnois-Salaberry Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie administrative region. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 1,852.
In addition to the namesake main population centre, the following locations reside within the municipality's boundaries:
The following waterways pass through or are situated within the municipality's boundaries:
The municipality was established in 1855 as the Parish Municipality of Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka, taking its name from the parish of Saint-Stanislas-Kostka (formed in 1853), which in turn was named after Stanislaus Kostka.
In 1920 and in 1938, the settlement experienced two large fires that practically wiped it out.[3]
In 2008, the parish municipality changed statutes to became a regular municipality.
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 1,750 | 11.1% | 94.3% | 55 | 8.3% | 3.0% | 25 | 66.7% | 1.3% | 20 | 100.0% | 1.1% | ||||||||
| 1,575 | 9.0% | 95.2% | 60 | 14.3% | 3.6% | 15 | 50.0% | 0.9% | 10 | 100.0% | 0.6% | ||||||||
| 1,445 | 8.0% | 94.4% | 70 | 7.7% | 4.6% | 10 | n/a% | 0.7% | 5 | 75.0% | 0.3% | ||||||||
| 1,570 | 1.9% | 94.9% | 65 | 225.0% | 3.9% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 20 | 60.0% | 1.2% | ||||||||
| 1,540 | 1.3% | 95.7% | 20 | 60.0% | 1.2% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 50 | 400.0% | 3.1% | ||||||||
| 1,560 | n/a | 96.3% | 50 | n/a | 3.1% | 0 | n/a | 0.0% | 10 | n/a | 0.6% | ||||||||
List of former mayors:[4]