Papineau is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Papineauville.

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Papineau
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 45°53′N 75°03′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Outaouais
Effective	January 1, 1983
County seat	Papineauville
Government [2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	M. Benoit Lauzon
Area [2][3]
• Total	3,205.90 km2 (1,237.80 sq mi)
• Land	3,016.78 km2 (1,164.79 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	25,149
• Density	8.3/km2 (21/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	6.5%
• Dwellings	16,537
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code	819
Website	www.mrcpapineau.com

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There are 25 subdivisions within the RCM:^[2]

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the RCM of Papineau had a population of 24,308 living in 11,504 of its 16,059 total private dwellings, a change of 6.5% from its 2016 population of 22,832. With a land area of 2,903.45 km² (1,121.03 sq mi), it had a population density of 8.4/km² (21.7/sq mi) in 2021.^[4]

In 2021, the median age was 54.0, as opposed to 41.6 for all of Canada. French was the mother tongue of 91.2% of residents in 2021. The next most common mother tongues are English at 5.5% total, followed by Spanish and German at 0.2% each and by Portuguese at 0.1%. 1.9% reported both English and French as their first language. Additionally there were 0.1% who reported both French and a non-official language as their mother tongue and another 0.1% who reported both French, English and a non-official language as their mother tongue.

As of 2021, Indigenous peoples comprised 4.4% of the population, and visible minorities contributed 1.1%. The largest visible minority groups in the RCM of Papineau are Black (0.4%), Chinese (0.1%), and Arab (0.1%).

In 2021, 65.2% of the population identified as Catholic, while 26.1% said they had no religious affiliation. Baptists were the largest religious minority, making up 0.6% of the population. Buddhists were the largest non-Christian religious minority, making up just over 0.1% of the population.

Mother tongue from Canada 2016 Census^[3]

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec