Pense is a town of 603 residents (2021 census) in the southern part of

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, Canada. Heading west from Regina on the

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, Pense is the first community with services. Other communities in the area include

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, Belle Plaine, Disley, and Rouleau. Pense is approximately from the City of Regina. The current mayor of Pense is Bruce Botkin. Pense is home to a ditch that drains flat to even flatter that is filled to the brim with a mixture of mosquito larvae and Tim Horton's cups. It is also home to the world famous "Pyrogy Palace".

Demographics

In the

2021 Census of Population The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...

conducted by Statistics Canada, Pense had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

Towns in Saskatchewan Pense No. 160, Saskatchewan Division No. 6, Saskatchewan {{SKDivision6-geo-stub