Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac
Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac is a parish municipality in the Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec in Canada.
The Saint-Roch parish was named in honour of Roch of Montpellier. The term Mékinac is associated with several homonyms of place names in the sector: Mékinac River, Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac and Mékinac Lake.
Geography
Municipal territory covers both side of Saint-Maurice River, including a small portion of La Mauricie National Park. The village of Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac is located at the top of a hill on Eastern side of Saint-Maurice River.Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac 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.| Year | Population | Variation | Median age |
| 2021 | 304 | +0.7 % | 57,6 years |
| 2016 | 302 | -31.1 % | 55,4 years |
| 2011 | 438 | +35.2 % | 55,6 years |
| 2006 | 324 | +5.9 % | 50,8 years |
| 2001 | 306 | +2.7 % | 47,3 years |
| 1996 | 298 | +2.1 % | - |
| 1991 | 292 | +33.3 % | - |
| 1986 | 219 | -29.6 % | - |
| 1981 | 311 | -6.9 % | - |
| 1976 | 334 | -4.6 % | - |
| 1971 | 350 | -12.5 % | - |
| 1966 | 400 | -3.1 % | - |
| 1961 | 413 | -6.3 % | - |
| 1956 | 441 | +22.5 % | - |
| 1951 | 360 | -16.5 % | - |
| 1941 | 431 | +35.1 % | - |
| 1931 | 319 | -3.0 % | - |
| 1921 | 329 | +4.1 % | - |
| 1911 | 316 | - | - |
Mother tongue:
- English as first language: 1.7%
- French as first language: 96.7%
- English and French as first language: 0%
- Other as first language: 1.7%