Villages include Barry's Bay, Golden Lake, Pikwakanagan First Nation, Douglas, Calabogie, Eganville, Wilno, Killaloe, Palmer Rapids and Braeside.

Other lower-tier rural municipalities include Admaston/Bromley, North Algona Wilberforce, Bonnechere Valley, Laurentian Valley, Laurentian Hills, Whitewater Region, Madawaska Valley, Killaloe-Hagarty-Richards, Head Clare and Maria, Greater Madawaska, Horton, and Brudenell Lyndoch Raglan, which contain rural areas such as Chalk River, Rankin, Ruby, Combermere, Basin Depot, Round Lake Centre and Deacon.

These demographics changed by the 2015 Federal Election, which saw the Liberals hold onto Pikwakanagan and Deep River, and gain most of the polls in Pembroke, Petawawa, and Eganville along with a number in Arnprior, and Renfrew although most of the rural districts voted Conservative.

Ethnic groups: 85.4% White, 11.3% Indigenous Languages: 89.3% English, 4.9% French Religions: 66.7% Christian (34.5% Catholic, 7.0% United Church, 5.4% Anglican, 5.1% Lutheran, 1.8% Presbyterian, 1.7% Baptist, 1.6% Pentecostal, 9.6% Other), 31.6% None Median income: $42,000 (2020) Average income: $50,200 (2020) Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke was created in 1976 from parts of Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton and Renfrew North—Nipissing East ridings.

It consisted of the County of Renfrew, excluding the Townships of Bagot and Blythfield and McNab, and the part of the Territorial District of Nipissing including and lying easterly of the Townships of Mattawan, Papineau, Cameron, Deacon, Anglin, Dickson, Preston, Airy and Sabine.