Cap-ChatQuebec

Cap-Chat faces more hazards than 92% of Canadian towns

NRCan’s model puts the yearly earthquake loss at $0.063 per $1,000 of building value, between Quebec’s towns ($0.14) and Canadian towns ($0.030). In Health Canada’s survey, 25% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). No flood study for Cap-Chat is on the national inventory.

Commuters in Cap-Chat have a short way to work, 16 min on average, less than in Quebec’s towns and across Canadian towns

The car took 87% of commuters, about level with both Quebec’s towns (90%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Cap-Chat gets a B+ for cost of living

Shelter took 30% or more of income for 9% of households, lower than both Quebec’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (18%). Home ownership covers 76% of households.

18% of Cap-Chat’s residents speak English and French (Quebec’s towns: 44%; Canadian towns: 7.5%)

5.7% of residents have an Indigenous identity, higher than both Quebec’s towns (1.5%) and Canadian towns (2.8%). Immigrants make up 3.3% of residents, above Quebec’s towns (2.6%) but below Canadian towns (6.4%).

18% of adults smoke in the health region around Cap-Chat, against 12% for the typical Canadian town

Women in the region live to 81.6 and men to 78.2, 79.9 years taken together (2022/2024). About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Quebec, 56% against 57%. Measured from where people live, the nearest hospital is 16 km away, above both Quebec’s towns (5.3 km) and Canadian towns (3.7 km).

Violent crime weighs more where Cap-Chat is policed than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: a violent severity index of 128

Measured across Haute-Gaspésie MRC: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

Where it is policed, 22.7 violent incidents per 1,000 residents are recorded each year. The index for the force that serves it came to 70, about level with Canadian towns (67) and above Quebec’s towns (56). Across its police area, there are 16.5 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.

In Cap-Chat, November normally means 4°C afternoons and −2°C nights

The forecast on the Weather page is ECCC’s for Sainte-Anne-Des-Monts. A normal December brings highs of −2°C, lows of −8°C. November normally sees 87 mm of precipitation. July brings the warmest days, 20°C; January the coldest nights, −14°C.

Marie-Eve Godbout is mayor of Cap-Chat

The Liberal Party of Canada has 44 of the 78 MPs elected in Quebec.

Bibliothèque De Capucins (Cap-Chat) and Bibliothèque La Ruche Litteraire (Cap-Chat) are Cap-Chat’s two public libraries

Its libraries report as part of a wider system, so there are no figures for Cap-Chat in particular.

Petits-Capucins 180306 Water Fowl Gathering Area begins at the edge of Cap-Chat

The largest named area nearby is Caribou, population de la Gaspésie Habitat of A Threatened Or Vulnerable Wildlife Species, 82,076 ha, 8.9 km away. 5.3% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). Within 100 km there is no national park. 10 beaches are mapped within 5 km, none with a name.

Cap-Chat has cooler summers than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: July highs of 19.7°C

For the wettest month, look to July: 111 mm on average. The thermometer drops below freezing on 170 days a year, above Quebec’s towns (161) and Canadian towns (159) alike. On a January night, the temperature in Cap-Chat falls to about −13.9°C.

3 schools serve Cap-Chat, 2 elementary schools and 1 school for every grade

38% of Cap-Chat’s homes were built before 1961

Federal, provincial and local lists together give 1 historic place here.