Saint-François, Laval, Quebec

Saint-François (formerly Saint-François-de-Salle) is the second largest district of Laval, Quebec, Canada, after Duvernay. It was a separate city until the municipal mergers on August 6, 1965.

Agriculture occupies most of the land area.

Located at the extreme east of Île Jésus (Laval), it is bounded on the:

A residential agglomeration formed in the southeast of the neighbourhood. The construction of the A25 Bridge (now the Autoroute 25) that now links with Montreal has been controversial. Ecologists opposed it because the bridge would destroy a wetland where rare species live. All opposition is now moot because the bridge was under construction as of early 2008 and was finished mid-2011.

In 2001, the population of St-François is estimated at 16.225, an almost stationary level compared to 1996. The population of St-François remains relatively young; 9,4% are seniors and the average age is 35.9 years old.

St-François is one of the most homogeneous districts on the linguistic level; whereas 88.5% of the population have French as mother tongue and more than 90% of them use that language at home.

90,5% are Catholic Christian. Cultural diversity of the borough appears by a strong presence of visible minorities which 13,0% of the population represent, just a little less than Chomedey.

86,3% of the households are owners (of a bungalow in 92,9% of the cases) and nearly 40% of the houses were built since 1981. The household size is one of the biggest in Laval with an average of three people. However, the number of single-parent families strongly increased since 1996 to reach 15,9% of total families.

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