title: Saint-Barnabé-Sud
text: # Saint-Barnabé-Sud
  
  Saint-Barnabé-Sud is a municipality in southwestern Quebec in the Regional County Municipality of Les Maskoutains. The population as of the 2021 Canadian Census was 962. It is the birthplace of historian Jean-Baptiste-Arthur Allaire.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  ### Population
  
  | Year | Pop. | ±% |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1991 | 880 | — |
  | 1996 | 902 | +2.5% |
  | 2001 | 884 | −2.0% |
  | Year | Pop. | ±% |
  | 2006 | 864 | −2.3% |
  | 2011 | 859 | −0.6% |
  | 2016 | 861 | +0.2% |
  | Year | Pop. | ±% |
  | 2021 | 962 | +11.7% |
  
  ### Language
  
  Canada Census Mother Tongue - Saint-Barnabé-Sud, Quebec :
  
  | Census | Total | French | French | French | English | English | English | French & English | French & English | French & English | Other | Other | Other |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % |
  | 2021 | 965 | 920 | 9.5% | 95.3% | 10 | 100.0% | 1.0% | 5 | 50.0% | 0.5% | 15 | 200.0% | 1.6% |
  | 2016 | 860 | 840 | 0.0% | 97.7% | 5 | 50.0% | 0.6% | 10 | n/a% | 1.2% | 5 | n/a% | 0.6% |
  | 2011 | 850 | 840 | 2.9% | 98.8% | 10 | n/a% | 1.2% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
  | 2006 | 865 | 865 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% |
  | 2001 | 895 | 865 | 0.0% | 96.7% | 10 | 50.0% | 1.1% | 10 | n/a% | 1.1% | 10 | n/a% | 1.1% |
  | 1996 | 885 | 865 | n/a | 97.7% | 20 | n/a | 2.3% | 0 | n/a | 0.0% | 0 | n/a | 0.0% |
  
  ## Communities
  
  * Saint-Barnabé-Sud
  
  ## Death of infant, 2010
  
  On June 7, 2010, police reported that a 20-day-old infant in Saint-Barnabé-Sud had been killed by a dog, a Siberian Husky, that afternoon.
  
  