Baie-ComeauQuebec

Renting in Baie-Comeau costs 14% of household income, less than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns

9% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, below both Quebec’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (18%). Home ownership covers 69% of households.

Summers stay cool in Baie-Comeau: July afternoons reach 21.3°C, below Quebec’s towns and Canadian towns

Frosty days number 194 in a normal year, higher than both Quebec’s towns (161) and Canadian towns (159). January nights in Baie-Comeau drop to −18.8°C on average. Most of the snow comes in January, about 72 cm. Gardeners get 114 frost-free days, from 29 May to 21 September.

Trips to work from Baie-Comeau are shorter than from Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 14 min on average

93% of commuters drove, close to Quebec’s towns (90%) and above Canadian towns (89%).

61% of adults around Baie-Comeau call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%

Lives here run to 79.4 years on average, below both Quebec’s towns (82.5) and Canadian towns (81.5). The region has more smokers than Quebec, 15% of adults to 12%. Measured from where Baie-Comeau’s residents live, a hospital is 4.0 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. Behind health survey and life expectancy sits data gathered across the Région de la Côte-Nord, with Baie-Comeau one part of it.

Few places match Baie-Comeau for protected land nearby: more than 8 in 10 Canadian towns

Within 10 km, the count of public protected areas is 19, above both Quebec’s towns (10) and Canadian towns (4). Biggest among them: Proposed Manicouagan Aquatic Reserve, 71,200 ha, 0.2 km off. For a provincial park, Bic National Park (Québec) lies 92 km off. No national park lies within 100 km.

Hazards in Baie-Comeau are mild: low wildfire and earthquake risk, and 4.7% of area homes above the radon guideline

Earthquakes add more: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.079 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Wildfire is rare near Baie-Comeau: 0.5% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.01% a year. No one has filed a flood map for Baie-Comeau on the national inventory. Nobody publishes radon tests for Baie-Comeau alone, so this card uses the figure for the Cote-Nord health region.

The force covering Baie-Comeau records more serious violence than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns, at 134

Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 for Manicouagan MRC

Its police area recorded 20.6 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, higher than both Quebec’s towns (12.4) and Canadian towns (12). Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 70 over 2023–25, higher than Quebec’s towns (56) and near Canadian towns (67).

Baie-Comeau in November: highs near 3°C, lows near −5°C

Precipitation in November averages 87 mm. December follows at −4°C by day and −13°C by night. Snowfall in a normal November: 31 cm. At the extremes, July afternoons reach 21°C and January nights −19°C.

Baie-Comeau’s public library is Bibliothèque Alice-Lane

Bibliothèque Alice-Lane has one location for the 20,771 people it serves.

21% of Baie-Comeau’s residents speak English and French (Quebec’s towns: 44%; Canadian towns: 7.5%)

14% are under 15, below Quebec’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (16%) alike. People 65 and over make up 23% of the town.

12 schools serve Baie-Comeau, 7 elementary schools, 3 secondary schools and 2 schools for every grade

Of the 12, one teaches in English (10% of schools in Quebec). The closest elementary school is 2.8 km away, above Quebec’s towns (0.5 km) and Canadian towns (0.5 km) alike.

Heritage in Baie-Comeau: 1 historic place of the highest rank

24% of its homes were built before 1961, above both Quebec’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%).