Lotbinière Regional County Municipality

Lotbinière is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is an almost exclusively rural RCM, with no village with a population above 4,000. As of the 2016 Canadian Census, the RCM had a population of 31,741.[3] Its seat is in Sainte-Croix.

Lotbinière
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 46°31′N 71°36′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Sainte-Croix
Government [2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Maurice Sénécal
Area [2][3]
• Total	1,687.00 km^2 (651.35 sq mi)
• Land	1,662.27 km^2 (641.81 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[3]
• Total	31,741
• Density	19.1/km^2 (49/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	7.2%
• Dwellings	14,642
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.mrclotbiniere.org

Subdivisions

There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM:[2]

Municipalities (13) Dosquet Leclercville Lotbinière Saint-Agapit Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly Saint-Apollinaire Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière Sainte-Croix Saint-Flavien Saint-Janvier-de-Joly Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage Saint-Sylvestre Val-Alain

Parishes (4) Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière Saint-Gilles Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage

Villages (1) Laurier-Station

Demographics

Historical Census Data - Lotbinière Regional County Municipality, Quebec

Year	Pop.	±%
2006	27,425	—
2011	29,617	+8.0%
2016	31,741	+7.2%
[4][3]

Language

Mother tongue from 2016 Canadian Census[3]

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only	30,845	98.2%
English only	230	0.7%
Both English and French	110	0.3%
Other languages	240	0.8%

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[5]

Autoroutes A-20 (TCH)

Principal Highways Route 116 Route 132

Secondary Highways Route 216 Route 218 Route 226 Route 269 Route 271 Route 273

External Routes None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

1. Reference number 141061 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)
2. "Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire: Lotbinière Regional County Municipality". Archived from the original on 2015-02-16. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
3. "Census Profile, 2016 Census Lotbinière, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved November 28, 2019.
4. "(Code 2433) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
5. Official Transport Quebec Road Map

External links

• (in French) Lotbinière Regional County