Drummond Regional County Municipality

Drummond
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 45°53′N 72°29′W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Centre-du-Québec
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Drummondville
Government
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Jean-Pierre Vallée
Area
• Total	1,627.20 km2 (628.27 sq mi)
• Land	1,600.26 km2 (617.86 sq mi)
Population  (2016)
• Total	103,397
• Density	64.6/km2 (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

Drummond (French pronunciation: [dʁɔmɔnd]) 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:

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

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:

• 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