{"id":106451,"date":"2025-09-17T17:33:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/?p=106451"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:41:42","slug":"municipality-week-2025-did-you-know-that-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/en\/municipality-week-2025-did-you-know-that-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipal Week &#8211; Did You Know&#8230; (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Town of Sutton is the largest of the 21 municipalities in the Brome-Missisquoi RCM, with a<strong> territory of 246.54 km<sup>2<\/sup><\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It also has one of its largest road networks: it maintains all year round and snowplows in winter <strong>200 km of municipal roads<\/strong>, comprising <strong>65 km of paved roads<\/strong> and<strong> 135 km of dirt roads<\/strong>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The other roads are either <strong>private roads,<\/strong> or <strong>roads managed by the Ministry of Transport<\/strong> (MTQ), namely: Maple Street, Route 139 (Principale Street), Route 215 (de la Vall\u00e9e Road), a portion of Scenic Road, and Chemin de la Vall\u00e9e-Missisquoi (apart from the small section leading to customs).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Town of Sutton also offers an <strong>18.4 km cycling network<\/strong>, with 83 bicycle parking spaces and a <a href=\"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/en\/a-bicycle-repair-station-donated-to-the-town-of-sutton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>bicycle repair station<\/strong><\/a> in Veterans Park. Since this summer, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/en\/electric-bike-parking-comes-to-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">4 electric bicycle charging stations<\/a><\/strong> have been added to this offering.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sutton&#8217;s population currently includes <strong>4,768 permanent residents<\/strong>. The number of non-resident vacationers added to this was 5,100 people in 2023, according to the RCM, thus bringing the total to more than double.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>According to the 2021 Statistics Canada census, <strong>23.6% of our population has English as their mother tongue<\/strong>, but <strong>71.9% is bilingual!<\/strong> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The median age of our population is 60.4 years<\/strong> (compared to 43.2 years for Quebec as a whole), meaning half are over 60.4 years old and the other half are under 60.4 years old. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our seniors <strong>over 65 years old represent 38.9%<\/strong> of the population (compared to 20.6% for Quebec as a whole).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To meet the needs and ensure the well-being of all age groups within its population, the Town of Sutton has adopted an ambitious and proactive <a href=\"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Plan-action_2023-2027-ENG_MAJ2025-02-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>action plan<\/strong><\/a> in connection with its new <a href=\"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/en\/launch-of-the-2023-2027-family-and-seniors-policy\/\"><strong>Family and Seniors Policiy<\/strong><\/a>, adopted in February 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Municipal Week from September 14 to 20, 2025, the Town of Sutton aims to highlight information of interest to all its citizens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":106510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Municipal Week - Did You Know... 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