Drummond Regional County Municipality

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

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(s)	819
Website	www.mrcdrummond.qc.ca
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Subdivisions

There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM:[2]

Cities & Towns (1) Drummondville

Municipalities (11) Durham-Sud L'Avenir Lefebvre Saint-Bonaventure Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover Saint-Eugène Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey Saint-Germain-de-Grantham Saint-Guillaume Saint-Lucien Wickham

Parishes (5) Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil Sainte-Brigitte-des-Saults Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham 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 Route 116 Route 122 Route 139 Route 143

Secondary Highways Route 224 Route 239 Route 243 Route 255 Route 259

External Routes None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

1. Reference number 141104 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)
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