title: Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel
text: # Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel
  
  Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel is a town in the Regional county municipality of Pierre-De Saurel, in Montérégie, Quebec. It is located north of the Tracy section of Sorel-Tracy. Champlain Street marks the town's southern limit from Sorel-Tracy, and the rest of the town is surrounded by water (either Saint Lawrence River or Richelieu River).
  
  As it is the case with neighboring municipalities, metallurgy plays a significant role in the town's economy. The Sorel-Tracy based QIT et Titane has a facility which occupies the western part of the town, while the eastern part of the town is essentially home to the Les Forges de Sorel company. This leaves the central part as the only portion of the town that is fully residential.
  
  The population of Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel was 1,677 as of the Canada 2011 Census.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel had a population of 1,581 living in 861 of its 917 total private dwellings, a change of -3.7% from its 2016 population of 1,642. With a land area of 1.36 $km^2$ (0.53 sq mi), it had a population density of $1,162.5/km^2$ (3,010.9/sq mi) in 2021.
  
  Population trend:
  
  | Census | Population | Change (%) |
  | - | - | - |
  | 2016 | 1,642 | 2.1% |
  | 2011 | 1,677 | 0.5% |
  | 2006 | 1,686 | 4.1% |
  | 2001 | 1,758 | 6.2% |
  | 1996 | 1,875 | 9.4% |
  | 1991 | 2,069 | N/A |
  
  Mother tongue language (2016)
  
  | Language | Population | Pct (%) |
  | - | - | - |
  | French only | 1,580 | 96.93% |
  | English only | 35 | 2.15% |
  | Both English & French | 10 | 0.61% |
  | Other languages | 10 | 0.61% |
  