Plessisville is a
parish municipality
A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. To distinguish it from an ''ecclesiastical parish'', the term ''civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is ...
in the
Centre-du-Québec region of
Quebec
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. It completely surrounds the
city of the same name.
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, Plessisville 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
Parish municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Centre-du-Québec
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