Sainte-Marguerite, Québec

Not to be confused with Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson.

Sainte-Marguerite (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t maʁɡərit] ^ⓘ) is a parish municipality in La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,175 as of the Canada 2021 Census. It is named after Marguerite Marcoux, who gave part of the land she owned in 1830 for the construction of a church.

Sainte-Marguerite
Parish municipality
Church and municipal building.
Location within La Nouvelle-Beauce RCM.
Sainte-Marguerite Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°31′N 70°56′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	La Nouvelle-Beauce
Constituted	July 1, 1855
Government [2]
• Mayor	Claude Perreault
• Federal riding	Beauce
• Prov. riding	Beauce-Nord
Area [2][3]
• Total	83.10 km2 (32.09 sq mi)
• Land	83.05 km2 (32.07 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	1,175
• Density	14.1/km2 (37/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	9.0%
• Dwellings	531
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0S 2X0
Area codes	418 and 581
Highways	R-216 R-275
Website	www.sainte-marguerite.ca

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Marguerite had a population of 1,175 living in 491 of its 531 total private dwellings, a change of 9% from its 2016 population of 1,078. With a land area of 83.05 km² (32.07 sq mi), it had a population density of 14.1/km² (36.6/sq mi) in 2021.^[4]