Austin, Quebec


Austin is a municipality on the western shore of Lake Memphremagog, part of the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada.
It was home to inventor Reginald Fessenden. It is named after Nicholas Austin who brought the first settlers, mostly Quakers, to this area from the state of New Hampshire in 1796.

Demographics

Population

Population trend:
CensusPopulationChange
20211,748 17.7%
20161,485 3.8%
20111,430 3.8%
20061,404 16.9%
20011,201 10.9%
19961,083 25.3%
1991864N/A

Language

Mother tongue
LanguagePopulationPct
French only1,43582.0%
English only23513.4%
Both English and French352.0%
Non-official languages352.0%