La Durantaye, Quebec

La Durantaye
Parish municipality
Location within Bellechasse RCM.
La Durantaye Location in province of Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°50′N 70°51′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	Bellechasse
Constituted	August 4, 1910
Named for	Olivier Morel de La Durantaye[1]
Government [2]
• Mayor	Jean-Paul Lacroix
• Federal riding	Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis
• Prov. riding	Bellechasse
Area [2][3]
• Total	34.30 km^2 (13.24 sq mi)
• Land	34.82 km^2 (13.44 sq mi)
	There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	722
• Density	20.7/km^2 (54/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	2.7%
• Dwellings	355
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0R 1W0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	R-281
Website	www.munladurantaye.qc.ca

La Durantaye is a parish municipality in the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region of Quebec.

The municipality had a population of 722 in the Canada 2011 Census.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, La Durantaye had a population of 782 living in 339 of its 374 total private dwellings, a change of 3.6% from its 2016 population of 755. With a land area of 34.99 km^2 (13.51 sq mi), it had a population density of 22.3/km^2 (57.9/sq mi) in 2021.[4]

References

1. "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 33402". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
2. "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 19090". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
3. "La Durantaye, Quebec (Code 2419090) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada.
4. "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.