Charlevoix Regional County Municipality

Charlevoix is a regional county municipality (French: Municipalité Regionale de Comté de Charlevoix) in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Baie-Saint-Paul.

Charlevoix
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 47°29′N 70°29′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Capitale-Nationale
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Baie-Saint-Paul
Government [2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Patrick Lavoie
Area [2][3]
• Total	3,935.69 km2 (1,519.58 sq mi)
• Land	3,736.80 km2 (1,442.79 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	13,371
• Density	3.6/km2 (9/sq mi)
• Change (2016-21)	2.9%
• Dwellings	7,516
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area codes	418 and 581
Website	www.mrc-charlevoix.com

Subdivisions

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

Cities & Towns (1) Baie-Saint-Paul

Municipalities (3) L'Isle-aux-Coudres Les Éboulements Petite-Rivière-Saint-François

Parishes (2) Saint-Hilarion Saint-Urbain

Unorganized Territory (1) Lac-Pikauba

Demographics

Canada census – Charlevoix Regional County Municipality community profile

	2021	2016
Population	13,371 (+2.9% from 2016)	12,997 (-2.6% from 2011)
Land area	3,736.80 km2 (1,442.79 sq mi)	3,763.22 km2 (1,452.99 sq mi)
Population density	3.6/km2 (9.3/sq mi)	3.5/km2 (9.1/sq mi)
Median age	54.8 (M: 53.6, F: 55.6)	52.8 (M: 52.3, F: 53.3)
Private dwellings	7,516 (total)  6,186 (occupied)	7,330 (total)  5,781 (occupied)
Median household income	$68,000	$56,806

References: 2021^[4] 2016^[5]

Historical census populations – Charlevoix Regional County Municipality

Year Pop. ±% 1986 13,843 —     1991 13,547 −2.1% 1996 13,437 −0.8% 2001 13,166 −2.0%	Year Pop. ±% 2006 13,190 +0.2% 2011 13,338 +1.1% 2016 12,997 −2.6% 2021 13,371 +2.9%
Source: Statistics Canada[3]

Transportation

Access routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:^[6]

Autoroutes None

Principal Highways R-138

Secondary Highways R-362 R-381

External Routes None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec