title: Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac
text: # Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac
  
  Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac is a parish municipality in the Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec in Canada.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Municipal territory covers both side of Saint-Maurice River, including a small portion of La Mauricie National Park. The village of Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac is located at the top of a hill on Eastern side of Saint-Maurice River.
  
  ## Toponymy
  
  The Saint-Roch parish was named in honour of Roch of Montpellier. The term Mékinac is associated with several homonyms of place names in the sector: Mékinac River, Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac and Mékinac Lake.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac had a population of 304 living in 174 of its 295 total private dwellings, a change of 0.7% from its 2016 population of 302. With a land area of 144.52 $km^2$ (55.80 sq mi), it had a population density of $2.1/km^2$ (5.4/sq mi) in 2021.
  
  Population trend :
  
  | Year | Population | Variation (%) | Median age |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 2016 | 302 | -31,1 % | 55,4 years |
  | 2011 | 438 | +35,2 % | 55,6 years |
  | 2006 | 324 | +5,9 % | |
  | 2001 | 306 | +2,7 % | |
  | 1996 | 298 | +2,0 % | |
  | 1991 | 292 | – | |
  | 1986 | – | – | |
  
  Mother tongue:
  
  * English as first language: 0%
  * French as first language: 98.4%
  * English and French as first language: 0%
  * Other as first language: 0%
  