Saint-Ours, Quebec
Saint-Ours is a city located in the Pierre-De Saurel Regional County Municipality of Québec, in the administrative region of Montérégie. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 1,721. Founded in 1650 and originally constituent of the Saint-Ours Parish Municipality, which merged alongside L'Immaculée-Conception-de-Saint-Ours municipality in 1991, Saint-Ours is one of the earliest settlements in Montérégie. The city is named in honor of Pierre Roch de Saint-Ours, a captain of a company in the regiment of Carignan-Salières, sent by the king to come to the aid of the colonists of New France, in 1665. Pierre de Saint-Ours was the first lord of these lands.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Ours had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.Population trend:
| Census | Population | Change |
| 2011 | 1,721 | 1.2% |
| 2006 | 1,700 | 4.7% |
| 2001 | 1,624 | 0.3% |
| 1996 | 1,619 | 0.6% |
| 1991 | 1,628 | N/A |
Mother tongue language
| Language | Population | Pct |
| French only | 1,650 | 97.06% |
| English only | 25 | 1.47% |
| Both English and French | 0 | 0.00% |
| Other languages | 25 | 1.47% |