| Saint-Amable | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec. |
| Coordinates: | 45.65°N -91°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Marguerite-D'Youville |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | June 13, 1921 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Stéphane Williams |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Verchères |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Area Total Km2: | 37.00 |
| Area Land Km2: | 36.77 |
| Population Footnotes: | [4] |
| Population Total: | 13322 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 362.3 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 9.5% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 5190 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −05:00 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −04:00 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J0L 1N0 |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
Saint-Amable (pronounced as /fr/) is a town 38.1km (23.7miles)[5] east of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada, within the Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality. The population as of the 2021 Canadian Census was 13,322.
The city, founded on 21 June 1921, is named after Amable de Riom, a popular saint from the period of New France (1534-1763).
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Amable had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 36.77km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[6]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Saint-Amable, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 12,395 | 6.9% | 93.1% | 180 | 20.0% | 1.4% | 130 | 85.7% | 1.0% | 515 | 68.9% | 3.9% | ||||||||
| 11,600 | 11.5% | 95.3% | 150 | 9.1% | 1.2% | 70 | 75.0% | 0.6% | 305 | 35.6% | 2.5% | ||||||||
| 10,405 | 27.7% | 96.0% | 165 | 73.7% | 1.5% | 40 | 166.7% | 0.4% | 225 | 66.7% | 2.1% | ||||||||
| 8,150 | 14.7% | 97.1% | 95 | 18.7% | 1.1% | 15 | 0.0% | 0.2% | 135 | 107.7% | 1.6% | ||||||||
| 7,105 | 2.5% | 97.8% | 80 | 6.7% | 1.1% | 15 | 0.0% | 0.2% | 65 | 7.1% | 0.9% | ||||||||
| 6,930 | n/a | 97.7% | 75 | n/a | 1.1% | 15 | n/a | 0.2% | 70 | n/a | 1.0% | ||||||||
Within the fertile area between the Saint Lawrence and Richelieu rivers, Saint-Amable has agriculture as its main economic activity.