Blanc-SablonQuebec

Rent takes less of local pay in Blanc-Sablon than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 5% of household income

Owners make up 78% of households. Shelter took 30% or more of income for 9% of households, below Quebec’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike.

Blanc-Sablon faces fewer hazards than 96% of Canadian towns

Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Cote-Nord health region

Radon around Blanc-Sablon is ordinary for Canada: 4.7% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Earthquakes are expected to cost $0.007 a year for every $1,000 of buildings, about level with Canadian towns ($0.030) and below Quebec’s towns ($0.14). Flood mapping: none on the national inventory of the town.

Blanc-Sablon has cooler summers than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: July highs of 15.9°C

Midwinter nights in Blanc-Sablon bottom out at −16.4°C on average. A normal winter brings 346 cm of snow, above Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm) alike. Rain and snow peak in September, at 102 mm. Most of the snow comes in March, about 74 cm.

Commuters in Blanc-Sablon have a short way to work, 10 min on average, less than in Quebec’s towns and Canadian towns

By car: that was how 88% of commuters travelled at the census.

The force covering Blanc-Sablon records more serious violence than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns, at 171

The index for the force that serves it came to 87, above both Quebec’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67). Violence across its police area runs at 36.2 per 1,000 residents a year. For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 14.3 property crimes are reported each year.

Very good or excellent health for 61% of adults around Blanc-Sablon; the typical Canadian town: 52%

Source area for health survey and life expectancy: the Région de la Côte-Nord

Chronic conditions run at 15% of adults, age-standardised, near Quebec’s towns (15%) and lower than Canadian towns (17%). The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 79.4, with women at 82.1 and men at 77.0. At 15%, the share of adults who smoke tops the 12% for Quebec. For Blanc-Sablon itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.0 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical.

In and around Blanc-Sablon, 2 schools: 1 secondary school and 1 school for every grade

What November brings in Blanc-Sablon: −5°C at night, 2°C by day

A typical November adds 24 cm of snow. Then December: −3°C by day, −11°C at night. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 84 mm. Across the year, normals run from −16°C nights in January to 17°C afternoons in August.

160 residents per council seat in Blanc-Sablon, a lower ratio than 94% of Quebec municipalities

Duplessis is the riding Blanc-Sablon votes in for the National Assembly of Québec, and its MNA (Member of the National Assembly, Québec’s legislature) isn’t named here because no open list records the members.

Bibliothèque De Blanc-Sablon is Blanc-Sablon’s public library

It sits 0.3 km from the centre of Blanc-Sablon.

83% of the ground inside Blanc-Sablon is protected

National parks are all over 100 km off. Within 10 km, just over a fifth of the land is protected, higher than both Quebec’s towns (4.9%) and Canadian towns (2.3%). Proposed basses collines du lac Guernesé Biodiversity Reserve (202,200 ha) is the biggest, 9.7 km from town. A provincial park, Pinware River Provincial Park, lies 28 km away.

More people in Blanc-Sablon speak English and French than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 59%

1.8% of residents belong to a visible minority, below both Quebec’s towns (3.5%) and Canadian towns (15%). People 65 and over make up 20% of the town.

Blanc-Sablon keeps a building from 1500: Blanc-Sablon

Inside the town there are 3 historic places, all of them top designations. Older housing, built before 1961, accounts for 5.4% of homes, lower than both Quebec’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%).