Drummond Regional County Municipality

Drummond
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 45°53′N 72°29′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Centre-du-Québec
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Drummondville
Government [2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Jean-Pierre Vallée
Area [2][3]
• Total	1,627.20 km^2 (628.27 sq mi)
• Land	1,600.26 km^2 (617.86 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[3]
• Total	103,397
• Density	64.6/km^2 (167/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	4.8%
• Dwellings	47,581
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code	819
Website	www.mrcdrummond.qc.ca
[4]

Drummond is a regional county municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Drummondville.

Subdivisions

There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM:^[2]

Cities & Towns (1) Drummondville

Municipalities (12) Durham-Sud L'Avenir Lefebvre Saint-Bonaventure Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham Saint-Eugène Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey Saint-Germain-de-Grantham Saint-Guillaume Saint-Lucien Wickham

Parishes (4) Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil Sainte-Brigitte-des-Saults Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham Saint-Pie-de-Guire

Villages (1) Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil

Demographics

Mother tongue from 2016 Canadian Census^[3]

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only	97,865	96.0%
English only	1,245	1.2%
Both English and French	460	0.5%
Other languages	2,380	2.3%

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) A-55

Principal Highways R-116 R-122 R-139 R-143

Secondary Highways R-224 R-239 R-243 R-255 R-259

External Routes None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

1. "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 141104". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
2. "Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire: Drummond Regional County Municipality". Archived from the original on 2014-07-21. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
3. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Drummond, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
4. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Drummond Regional County Municipality, Quebec
5. Official Transport Quebec Road Map