title: Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière, Quebec
text: # Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière, Quebec
  
  Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière is a parish municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,248 as of the Canada 2011 Census. It is named after Édouard Faucher, founder and first priest of the parish, and René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière, first owner of the seigneurie in which Saint-Édouard lay.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière had a population of 1,240 living in 520 of its 557 total private dwellings, a change of 3.9% from its 2016 population of 1,194. With a land area of 98.43 $km^2$ (38.00 sq mi), it had a population density of $12.6/km^2$ (32.6/sq mi) in 2021.
  
  