page_title: Sherbrooke
section_title: Census Metropolitan Area
hierarchical_section_title: Sherbrooke / Demographics / Census Metropolitan Area
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Région métropolitaine de Sherbrooke
context_page_description: Sherbrooke is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. Sherbrooke is situated at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality and census division of Quebec, coextensive with the city of Sherbrooke. With 161,323 residents at the 2016 census, Sherbrooke was the sixth largest city in the province of Quebec and the thirtieth largest in Canada. The Sherbrooke Census Metropolitan Area had 212,105 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Quebec and nineteenth largest in Canada.
  Originally known as Hyatt's Mill, it was renamed after Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, a British general who was Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, and Governor General of British North America; the family is named after Shirebrook, Derbyshire.
  Sherbrooke is the primary economic, political, cultural and institutional centre of Estrie, and was known as the Queen of the Eastern Townships at the beginning of the 20th century.
context_section_description: The Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) comprises the cities of Sherbrooke, Magog and Waterville, the municipalities of Ascot Corner, Compton, Stoke and Val-Joli; the parish municipality of Saint-Denis-de-Brompton; the township municipalities of Hatley and Orford; and the village municipality of North Hatley. The population in 2016 was 212,105. The median age was 42.
  Approximately 90.3% of the greater Sherbrooke area residents were white, while 5.8% were visible minorities and 3.9% were Aboriginal.
  French was mother tongue to 90.1% of residents (counting both single and multiple responses). The next most common mother tongues were English at 5.4%, Spanish at 1.3%, Arabic at 1.2% Persian at 0.5%, Arabic at 0.4%, German at 0.4%, and Italian at 0.4%. (Percentages may total more than 100% owing to rounding and multiple responses).
  About 78.4% of the population identified as Catholic in 2011 while 13.8% said they had no religious affiliation,1.7% were Muslim 0.6% Anglican, 0.6% Baptists, 0.6% Eastern Orthodox and 0.5% United Church. Pentecostals, Hindus and Buddhists made up 0.2% of the population each.
caption: Sherbrooke CMA
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