Roussillon Regional County Municipality
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| Roussillon | |
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| Regional county municipality | |
| Location in province of Quebec. Location in province of Quebec. |
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| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Montérégie |
| Effective | January 1, 1982 |
| Named for | Régiment Royal Roussillon[1] |
| County seat | Saint-Constant |
| Government[2] | |
| • Type | Prefecture |
| • Prefect | Nathalie Simon |
| Area[2][3] | |
| • Total | 403.60 km2 (155.83 sq mi) |
| • Land | 423.24 km2 (163.41 sq mi) |
| There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources |
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| Population (2011)[3] | |
| • Total | 162,187 |
| • Density | 383.2/km2 (992/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2006–2011 |  8.1% |
| Population excludes incompletely enumerated First Nations reserves | |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
| Area code(s) | 450 and 579 |
| Website | www |
Roussillon is a regional county municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Saint-Constant, Quebec. The region's population was 162,187 as of the Canada 2011 Census.
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Subdivisions
There are 11 subdivisions and one native reserve within the RCM:[2]
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Demographics
Population
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Language
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French
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English
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French & English
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Other
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| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | |||||
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2011
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160,260
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127,660 | 4.3% |
79.66% | 18,735 | 13.2% |
11.69% | 2,045 | 89.4% |
1.28% | 11,820 | 37.6% |
7.37% | |||||
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2006
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148,560
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122,345 | 7.4% |
82.35% | 16,545 | 1.1% |
11.14% | 1,080 |  8.5% |
0.73% | 8,590 | 48.2% |
5.78% | |||||
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2001
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137,200
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113,865 | 6.3% |
82.99% | 16,360 | 4.2% |
11.93% | 1,180 | 11.3% |
0.86% | 5,795 | 6.1% |
4.22% | |||||
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1996
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130,975
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107,105 | n/a | 81.78% | 17,080 | n/a | 13.04% | 1,330 | n/a | 1.01% | 5,460 | n/a | 4.17% | |||||
Transportation
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[7]
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See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=141041
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Geographic code 670 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
- ↑ Official Transport Quebec Road Map
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