Pense | |
Official Name: | Town of Pense |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Pense |
Coordinates: | 50.4153°N -104.9847°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Rural municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Pense |
Established Title: | Post Office established |
Established Date: | 1883 |
Established Title1: | Village[1] |
Established Date1: | March 7, 1904 |
Established Title2: | Town |
Established Date2: | October 24, 2012 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Title1: | Administrator |
Leader Name1: | Jennifer Lendvay |
Leader Title2: | M.L.A. Lumsden-Morse |
Leader Name2: | Blaine McLeod |
Leader Title3: | M.P. Moose Jaw—Lake Centre—Lanigan |
Leader Name3: | Fraser Tolmie |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Land Km2: | 1.32 |
Population Total: | 532 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | 402.6 |
Timezone: | UTC |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0G 3W0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Footnotes: | [2] |
Pense is a town of 603 residents (2021 census) in the southern part of Saskatchewan, Canada. Heading west from Regina on the Trans Canada Highway, Pense is the first community with services. Other communities in the area include Grand Coulee, Belle Plaine, Disley, and Rouleau. Pense is approximately from the city of Regina.
In the 2021 Census of Population 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 1.32km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]
On May 3rd, 2021, the grain elevator in Pense was demolished, 20 years after it was shut down by Viterra in 2001.