| Sainte-Madeleine | |
| Settlement Type: | Village municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 45.6°N -79°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Les Maskoutains |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | December 30, 1919 |
| Named For: | Mary Magdalene |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Marie-Hélène Demers |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Borduas |
| Area Total Km2: | 5.30 |
| Area Land Km2: | 5.36 |
| Area Note: | There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources. |
| Population Total: | 2356 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | 439.8 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2006-2011 |
| Population Blank1: | 8.3% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 960 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J0H 1S0 |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
Sainte-Madeleine is a village municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada in Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 2,356.
Le Camping Ste-Madeleine, founded in 1967 for visitors to EXPO 67, is the area's principal tourist attraction. The annual musical event, the Festival Country du Camping Sainte-Madeleine, held in late July, attracts approximately 5,000 visitors to the community of 2,356.
Individuals born in Sainte-Madeleine include artist France Jodoin.[3]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Madeleine had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 5.36km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Sainte-Madeleine, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 2,305 | 8.0% | 97.88% | 15 | 50.0% | 0.64% | 10 | n/a% | 0.42% | 25 | 0.0% | 1.06% | ||||||||
| 2,135 | 6.8% | 98.39% | 10 | 0.0% | 0.46% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 25 | 150.0% | 1.15% | ||||||||
| 2,000 | 1.0% | 99.01% | 10 | 0.0% | 0.49% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 10 | n/a% | 0.49% | ||||||||
| 1,980 | n/a | 99.50% | 10 | n/a | 0.50% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | ||||||||