Saint-Hippolyte is a parish municipality within the La Rivière-du-Nord Regional County Municipality, Quebec

La Rivière-du-Nord Regional County Municipality, Quebec

La Rivière-du-Nord is a regional county municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Saint-Jérôme. The region is named for the river that runs through it, the Rivière du Nord. La Rivière-du-Nord is located in the Laurentides region of Quebec...

 and the administrative region of Laurentides in the Laurentian mountains

Laurentian mountains

The Laurentian Mountains are a mountain range in southern Quebec, Canada, north of the St. Lawrence River and Ottawa River, rising to a highest point of 1166 metres at Mont Raoul Blanchard, north east of Quebec City in the Reserve Faunique des Laurentides. The Gatineau, L'Assomption, Lièvre,...

 about 45 km north of Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

. The name comes from Saint Hippolytus.

Part of the town was formerly known as Abercrombie-Est.

Police services are provided by the Régie intermunicipale de police de la Rivière-du-Nord

Régie intermunicipale de police de la Rivière-du-Nord

The Régie intermunicipale de police de la Rivière-du-Nord was the shared police service of three municipalities in Quebec's Laurentians:*Saint-Hippolyte*Piedmont*Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs...

, which also serves Piedmont

Piedmont, Quebec

Piedmont is a small municipality within the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian Mountains of the administrative region of Laurentides...

, Prévost

Prévost, Quebec

Prévost is a town within the La Rivière-du-Nord Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, and the administrative region of Laurentides in the Laurentian Mountains, north of Montreal. It was created in 1973 from the amalgamation of the former villages of Shawbridge and Lesage with old Prévost...

and some other communities in the Laurentians.

Demographics

Population:

• Population in 2006: 7219 (2001 to 2006 population change: 19.5 %)
• Population in 2001: 6039
• Population in 1996: 5672
• Population in 1991: 4697

Total private dwellings, excluding seasonal cottages: 3106 (total: 4333)

Mother tongue:

• English as first language: 4.7 %
• French as first language: 92.6 %
• English and French as first language: 1 %
• Other as first language: 1.7 %