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.
YearPopulationVariation 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%