Maria-Chapdelaine Regional County Municipality

Maria-Chapdelaine is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is in Dolbeau-Mistassini.

It runs from Lac Saint-Jean in the south to the deep interior of northern Quebec in the north.

Subdivisions
There are 14 subdivisions within the RCM:


 * Cities & Towns (2)
 * Dolbeau-Mistassini
 * Normandin


 * Municipalities (8)
 * Albanel
 * Girardville
 * Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
 * Péribonka
 * Saint-Edmond-les-Plaines
 * Saint-Eugène-d'Argentenay
 * Saint-Stanislas
 * Saint-Thomas-Didyme


 * Parishes (1)
 * Saint-Augustin


 * Villages (1)
 * Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc


 * Unorganized Territory (2)
 * Passes-Dangereuses
 * Rivière-Mistassini

Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:


 * Autoroutes
 * None


 * Principal Highways


 * Secondary Highways


 * External Routes
 * None

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the RCM of Maria-Chapdelaine had a population of 24,149 living in 10,967 of its 12,185 total private dwellings, a change of -2.6% from its 2016 population of 24,793. With a land area of 35,501.49 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

In 2021, the median age was 50.0, as opposed to 41.6 for all of Canada. French was the mother tongue of 99.0% of residents in 2021. The next most common mother tongues were the related languages of Atikamekw and Innu at 0.3% total, followed by English and Spanish at 0.3% each. 0.3% reported both English and French as their first language. Additionally there were 0.1% who reported both French and a non-official language as their mother tongue.

As of 2021, Indigenous peoples comprised 6.8% of the population, and visible minorities contributed 1.1%. The largest visible minority groups in the RCM of Maria-Chapdelaine are Black (0.5%), Arab (0.2%), and Latin American (0.2%).

In 2021, 79.1% of the population identified as Catholic, while 13.6% said they had no religious affiliation. Jehovah's Witnesses were the largest religious minority, making up 0.6% of the population. Muslims were the largest non-Christian religious minority, making up just over 0.1% of the population.

Counting both single and multiple responses, the most commonly identified ethnocultural ancestries were: (Percentages may total more than 100% due to rounding and multiple responses).