KangiqsualujjuaqQuebec
Its census division is Nord-du-Québec. 1,038 people call this town in Quebec home.
Is Kangiqsualujjuaq a good place to live?
Kangiqsualujjuaq’s best grade is for walkability (A+). The weak point is safety (D−).
Kangiqsualujjuaq is graded subject by subject, but Canadian towns need 2,500 residents for an overall grade.
This town's rent is the 2021 census rent scaled to 2025 by its province's ratio of surveyed to census rents: no rental survey covers it, so its Cost Grade is less sure. No Cost Grade: fewer than 30% of households own their home here, so neither the home value nor the rent is a market price. Safety is the regional police service's figure, shared with its other towns. No School Grade: this province doesn't publish comparable results school by school. Health is graded on the health region's survey figures and life expectancy, with the distance to hospital giving the town its own spread.
How Kangiqsualujjuaq grades
Each subject compares Kangiqsualujjuaq with Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far it is from the middle. Towns in other countries are graded separately.
Kangiqsualujjuaq is graded subject by subject, but Canadian towns need 2,500 residents for an overall grade.
How TownRatings grades Canadian towns →
What makes Kangiqsualujjuaq stand out
The 3 things Kangiqsualujjuaq does most differently from other towns.
The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Kangiqsualujjuaq.
Violent crime weighs more where Kangiqsualujjuaq is policed than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: a violent severity index of 2,056
Measured across the Nunavik Region service area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000
Violence across its police area runs at 447.5 per 1,000 residents a year. The index for the force that serves it came to 806, above both Quebec’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67). On top of that, across its police area, there are 87.1 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
Year by year · Crime Severity Index for each year
| 2023–2025 | Kangiqsualujjuaq | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crime Severity Index | 806 | 56 | 67 |
| Violent Crime Severity Index | 2,056 | 88 | 86 |
| Violent crime | 447.5 | 12.4 | 12 |
| Property crime per 1,000 | 87.1 | 16.6 | 31.2 |
Statistics Canada, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, 2023–2025 average
People in Kangiqsualujjuaq’s health region live to 65.2 on average, 16.3 years short of the typical Canadian town
Source area for health survey and life expectancy: the Région du Nunavik
Homes here are 157 km from a hospital on average, higher than both Quebec’s towns (5.3 km) and Canadian towns (3.7 km).
Life expectancy at birth · years, at birth
| Health | Kangiqsualujjuaq | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life expectancy at birth | 65.2 | 82.5 | 81.5 |
Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 and life expectancy 2022/2024; Open Database of Healthcare Facilities
Kangiqsualujjuaq has cooler summers than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: July highs of 18.1°C
January nights in Kangiqsualujjuaq drop to −27.7°C on average. Frosty days number 239 in a normal year, above Quebec’s towns (161) and Canadian towns (159) alike. Frost usually lifts by 15 June and returns around 12 September: 88 days without it.
Average high by season · ECCC normals, 1991–2020
| Normals, 1991–2020 | Kangiqsualujjuaq | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| July afternoon high | 18.1°C | 26.5°C | 25.5°C |
| January night low | −27.7°C | −14.7°C | −13.5°C |
| Days with frost a year | 239 | 161 | 159 |
| Precipitation a year | 578 mm | 1,041 mm | 883 mm |
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Kuujjuaq)
More of Kangiqsualujjuaq’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 87%
18% speak both English and French, between Quebec’s towns (44%) and Canadian towns (7.5%).
Ages · Share of residents in each age group, Census 2021
Schooling · Highest qualification, residents 15 and over
Women and men · all residents
Women make up 46.9% of Kangiqsualujjuaq
The 2021 census counted 450 women and 510 men here, where women make up 50.9% of Canada.
| Kangiqsualujjuaq | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 34% | 17% | 16% |
| 15 to 64 | 62% | 62% | 64% |
| 65+ | 4.2% | 20% | 19% |
| No certificate, diploma or degree | 71% | 19% | 16% |
| Postsecondary qualification | 10% | 59% | 56% |
Statistics Canada, Census 2021; Quebec and Canada: medians of towns of 2,500+
Driving to work is less common in Kangiqsualujjuaq than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 42% of commuters
Commutes averaged 11 min, below Quebec’s towns (27 min) and Canadian towns (26 min) alike.
How working residents got to work · census 2021
| Census 2021 | Kangiqsualujjuaq | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Car or van | 42% | 90% | 89% |
| Average trip | 11 min | 27 min | 26 min |
Statistics Canada, Census 2021 (labour and commuting) · The 2021 census was taken in May 2021, during COVID-19 restrictions: more people than usual worked from home or were off work.
Kangiqsualujjuaq’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 13% of area homes over the radon guideline
Averaged over the years, quake damage costs $0.006 per $1,000 of buildings, about level with Canadian towns ($0.030) and below Quebec’s towns ($0.14). Fire seldom reaches Kangiqsualujjuaq: since 1986, 0.1% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.001% a year). Flood mapping: none on the national inventory of the town.
Radon tests above the guideline · share of tested homes, 200 Bq/m³
| Hazards | Kangiqsualujjuaq | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radon tests above the guideline | 13% | 8.2% | 6.6% |
| Earthquake loss per $1,000 of buildings a year | $0.006 | $0.14 | $0.030 |
NRCan seismic risk model and burned areas, Health Canada radon survey, the Flood Hazard Map Inventory · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Nunavik health region
The nearest provincial park to Kangiqsualujjuaq is Kuururjuaq National Park (Québec), 15 km away
61 km separate the town from Torngat Mountains National Park, its nearest national park.
Protected land · of the land within 10 km
| Outdoors | Kangiqsualujjuaq | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protected land within 10 km | 0% | 4.9% | 2.3% |
| Public protected areas within 10 km | 0 | 10 | 4 |
Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD), OpenStreetMap routes and beaches
Kangiqsualujjuaq and its edges hold 2 schools: 2 schools for every grade
| School | Level | Students | System |
|---|---|---|---|
| École Ulluriaq (Atelier / Culture)In KangiqsualujjuaqAll grades | All grades | – | Other |
Provincial school lists and results, 2025-26 · Towns in Quebec aren’t in the schools rankings: the ministry publishes its success rates by school service centre, not school by school.
A normal November in Kangiqsualujjuaq runs from −11°C to −4°C
Into December, the normals move to −12°C and −20°C. A normal November brings 44 mm of rain and snow. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Kangiqsualujjuaq forecast, on the Weather page.
Normal highs, the months ahead · ECCC normals, 1991–2020
| Season | High | Low | Rain and snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter | −16°C | −25°C | 97 mm |
| Spring | −3°C | −13°C | 91 mm |
| Summer | 16°C | 5°C | 202 mm |
| Autumn | 4°C | −3°C | 189 mm |
ECCC normals, 1991–2020 (Kuujjuaq); the forecast is on the Weather page
Hilda Snowball heads the council of Kangiqsualujjuaq as mayor
For the National Assembly of Québec, Kangiqsualujjuaq votes in Ungava; open data doesn’t yet say who its MNA (Member of the National Assembly, Québec’s legislature) is.
Wikidata, MAMH, MMAH, Statistics Canada
No public library is mapped in or near Kangiqsualujjuaq
Kangiqsualujjuaq has no library board of its own in the provincial statistics, so no visit or loan figures appear here.
Provincial library statistics, OpenStreetMap, the CRA and Statistics Canada
Everything we know about Kangiqsualujjuaq
About Kangiqsualujjuaq
Town in Quebec
TownRatings counts Kangiqsualujjuaq as Statistics Canada does, as one municipality in Quebec; the census, crime and housing figures all follow that boundary.
Statistics Canada: population estimates 2025 (17-10-0155), Census of Population 2021, 2021 census boundaries.
- Population
- 1,038 (people, 2025 estimate)
- Province or territory
- Quebec
- Census division
- Nord-du-Québec
- The community’s own name
- ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᔾᔪᐊᖅ
- Census subdivision
- 2499090
Questions about Kangiqsualujjuaq
What kind of homes are in Kangiqsualujjuaq?
Single-detached houses make up 34% of the homes here, where Canadian towns sit at 64%; 0% are in high-rise apartments. 12% of households are one person, and the average is 3.9.
Is Kangiqsualujjuaq a young town or an old one?
Half its people are older than 24.4 (the middle of Canadian towns: 45.2); children under 15 make up 34%, people 65 and over 4%.
Do people in Kangiqsualujjuaq speak French?
Yes: this is Quebec. 1.1% of residents speak only French and 18% speak both French and English (Canadian towns’ median: 8%).
Has Kangiqsualujjuaq grown?
Between the 2016 and 2021 censuses it went from 942 to 956 residents (up 1.5%; Canadian towns’ median: 4.1%), and Statistics Canada now estimates 1,038.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · population estimates 2025 (17-10-0155) and 2021 census boundaries · Uniform Crime Reporting Survey 2023–25 (35-10-0026, 35-10-0183 to 35-10-0190) · CMHC rents as published by Statistics Canada (34-10-0133) · grades by TownRatings. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).