La Tuque Profile
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La Tuque Population
Population Age Distribution
La Tuque Households
Household Size
Size Distribution
Household Composition
La Tuque Incomes
Summary
Income Composition
Individual Income Distribution
La Tuque Employment
Labour Force
Low Income Prevalence
La Tuque Education
Highest certificate, diploma or degree for the population aged 15 and over, Census 2021. The highest-credential groups are mutually exclusive. Bachelor's degree, master's degree, and medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine sit inside “bachelor's degree or higher” and are not extra slices of the population. Shares are calculated on this site from the published counts. Statistics Canada randomly rounds census counts, so parts can miss the published total by a few people.
Highest credential
Within bachelor's degree or higher
Those credentials are published parts of bachelor's degree or higher. They do not add up to that count. Earned doctorates and other university credentials above the bachelor level stay inside the published total and are not separate columns in this extract.
Share of the population aged 15 and over
La Tuque Commute
Place of work for the employed labour force aged 15 and over, Census 2021. Worked at home is the census count of people who worked at home, shown as a share of that employed labour force. Shares are calculated on this site from the published counts. Statistics Canada randomly rounds census counts, so parts can miss the published total by a few people.
Worked at home
6.0%
275 people
Share of 4,620 employed people aged 15 and over with a place of work.
Place of work
La Tuque Occupation
Broad category for the labour force aged 15 and over, Census 2021, using the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021. Legislative and senior management is broad category 0, not every job with “manager” in the title. Shares use the published labour-force total. These categories do not add up to that total. Counts are randomly rounded, and people with no classified category stay in the published total. This page does not estimate that remainder.
Share of the labour force
La Tuque Industry
Industry sector for the labour force aged 15 and over, Census 2021. Shares use the published labour-force total. These categories do not add up to that total. Counts are randomly rounded, and people with no classified category stay in the published total. This page does not estimate that remainder.
Share of the labour force
La Tuque Languages
Language Knowledge
Mother Tongue
Top Mother Tongue Languages
La Tuque Dwellings
Dwelling Type
Community snapshot
About La Tuque
La Tuque is a city in Mauricie, Quebec, on the Saint-Maurice River deep in the boreal interior north of Trois-Rivières. A vast municipal territory of forest, hydro reservoirs, and Atikamekw neighbouring communities surrounds a compact urban core built on forestry and river industry. About 11,000 people live in La Tuque’s urban area within a much larger city territory.
Known for
- Saint-Maurice River city in Mauricie’s interior
- Forestry and hydro hinterland economy
- Vast boreal municipal territory around a compact core
- Gateway toward Haute-Mauricie and reservoir country
- Neighbour to Atikamekw communities of the upper river
See & do
Centre-ville La Tuque
Main streets and services in the urban core.
Saint-Maurice River waterfront
River views through the city.
Parc des Chutes / local falls areas
Nearby waterfalls and forest recreation.
Haute-Mauricie forest drives
Roads toward reservoirs and remote lakes.
Regional museums and heritage sites
Forestry and river-industry history exhibits.
Data source → Census methodology & attribution
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