Located at the extreme east of Île Jésus (Laval), it is bounded on the: A residential agglomeration formed in the southeast of the neighbourhood.
St-François is one of the most homogeneous districts on the linguistic level; whereas 88.5% of the population have French as mother tongue and more than 90% of them use that language at home.
Cultural diversity of the borough appears by a strong presence of visible minorities which 13,0% of the population represent, just a little less than Chomedey.
The ratio of female population strongly increased by 56.2 to 62.1% in St François and the unemployment rate moved back from 9% to 7%, a level higher than the average.
On the other hand, with 14.1% people living under the low-income threshold, a significant fall compared to 1996, the borough is somewhat under the average.
(in French only) Saint-Francois is part of the provincial electoral district of Mille-Îles (represented in the Quebec National Assembly) and federal electoral district of Alfred-Pellan (represented in the Canadian House of Commons).