La MinerveQuebec
In Quebec, this town has 1,492 residents. Its census division is Les Laurentides.
Is La Minerve a good place to live?
La Minerve’s strongest is health (A). Add safety to its strengths (B+). The weak point is jobs & income (D−). Housing is expensive (C−).
La Minerve has subject grades but no overall grade: Canadian towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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. Safety is the Sûreté du Québec unit's figure for the whole MRC. Crime here is counted against the people who live here, but many visitors or second-home owners add to it, so the rate per resident runs higher than residents' own risk. 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.
What makes La Minerve stand out
The 3 things La Minerve does most differently from other towns.
How La Minerve grades
Each subject compares La Minerve with Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far it is from the middle. Towns in other countries are graded separately.
La Minerve has subject grades but no overall grade: Canadian towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in La Minerve.
Commuters in La Minerve travel further than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns, 30 min on average
At the census, 89% of commuters went by car.
How working residents got to work · census 2021
| Census 2021 | La Minerve | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip | 30 min | 27 min | 26 min |
| Car or van | 89% | 90% | 89% |
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.
Health in La Minerve beats 86% of Canadian towns
By their own account, three in five adults here are in very good or excellent health, higher than both Quebec’s towns (56%) and Canadian towns (52%). Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 82.2, women 83.7 and men 80.8 (2022/2024). What sets La Minerve apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 20 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). La Minerve shares its health survey and life expectancy numbers with the rest of the Région des Laurentides.
Very good or excellent health · adults, age-standardised
| Health | La Minerve | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Very good or excellent health | 60% | 56% | 52% |
| Chronic conditions (average share) | 13% | 15% | 17% |
| Smokers | 11% | 12% | 12% |
| Life expectancy at birth | 82.2 | 82.5 | 81.5 |
Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 and life expectancy 2022/2024; Open Database of Healthcare Facilities
Most households in La Minerve own their home: 86%, more than in Quebec’s towns and across Canadian towns
12% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, lower than both Quebec’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (18%). The median home value was $278,000, below both Quebec’s towns ($300,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000).
What homes were worth · The median owner’s estimate at the 2021 census
| Census 2021 | La Minerve | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households owning their home | 86% | 70% | 74% |
| Households spending 30%+ on shelter | 12% | 13% | 18% |
| Median home value, 2021 | $278,000 | $300,000 | $406,000 |
| Rent as a share of income | 19% | 18% | 20% |
Statistics Canada, Census 2021; CMHC Rental Market Survey via Statistics Canada · The 2021 census asked owners what their home was worth; those values, and 2020 incomes, are what this compares.
For safety, La Minerve gets a B+
Property crime in the area its police cover: 11.9 per 1,000 people a year. Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 49 over 2023–25, below both Quebec’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67). La Minerve doesn’t get its own Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 figures; the ones here come from Laurentides MRC.
Year by year · Crime Severity Index for each year
| 2023–2025 | La Minerve | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crime per 1,000 | 11.9 | 16.6 | 31.2 |
| Crime Severity Index | 49 | 56 | 67 |
| Violent Crime Severity Index | 72 | 88 | 86 |
Statistics Canada, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, 2023–2025 average
La Minerve’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 10% of area homes over the radon guideline
Measured across the Laurentides health region: radon tests
NRCan’s model puts the yearly earthquake loss at $0.072 per $1,000 of building value, lower than Quebec’s towns ($0.14) yet higher than Canadian towns ($0.030). The national flood inventory has no study for La Minerve.
Radon tests above the guideline · share of tested homes, 200 Bq/m³
| Hazards | La Minerve | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radon tests above the guideline | 10% | 8.2% | 6.6% |
| Earthquake loss per $1,000 of buildings a year | $0.072 | $0.14 | $0.030 |
NRCan seismic risk model and burned areas, Health Canada radon survey, the Flood Hazard Map Inventory
Older than 99% of Canadian towns: half of La Minerve is over 62
5.7% of residents have an Indigenous identity, above both Quebec’s towns (1.5%) and Canadian towns (2.8%). Both official languages: 42% of residents, close to Quebec’s towns (44%) and above 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
45.1% of La Minerve’s residents are women
By the 2021 count the town had 640 women and 780 men, while Canada has 50.9% women.
| La Minerve | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 7% | 17% | 16% |
| 15 to 64 | 54% | 62% | 64% |
| 65+ | 39% | 20% | 19% |
| No certificate, diploma or degree | 15% | 19% | 16% |
| Postsecondary qualification | 55% | 59% | 56% |
Statistics Canada, Census 2021; Quebec and Canada: medians of towns of 2,500+
Protected land around La Minerve beats 8 in 10 Canadian towns
The largest is Proposed Buttes-du-Lac-Montjoie Biodiversity Reserve: 9,827 ha, 3.8 km from the edge of town. A provincial park, Mont-Tremblant National Park (Québec), lies 13 km away. Count 27 protected areas within 10 km of town. National parks are all over 100 km off.
Protected land · of the land within 10 km
| Outdoors | La Minerve | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public protected areas within 10 km | 27 | 10 | 4 |
| Protected land within 10 km | 9.4% | 4.9% | 2.3% |
Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD), OpenStreetMap routes and beaches
La Minerve has colder winters than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: January lows of −18.3°C
A normal year brings 1,178 mm of precipitation, above Quebec’s towns (1,041 mm) and Canadian towns (883 mm) alike. Frost usually lifts by 28 May and returns around 15 September: 110 days without it. Snow peaks in January: 56 cm in a normal year. Expect July highs of around 25.3°C in La Minerve.
Average high by season · ECCC normals, 1991–2020
| Normals, 1991–2020 | La Minerve | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Days with frost a year | 196 | 161 | 159 |
| January night low | −18.3°C | −14.7°C | −13.5°C |
| Precipitation a year | 1,178 mm | 1,041 mm | 883 mm |
| Snowfall a year | 218 cm | 217 cm | 141 cm |
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 (St-Jovite)
In La Minerve, November normally means 5°C afternoons and −5°C nights
Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Mont-Tremblant forecast, on the Weather page. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 93 mm. A typical November adds 17 cm of snow. Into December, the normals move to −3°C and −13°C.
Normal highs, the months ahead · ECCC normals, 1991–2020
| Season | High | Low | Rain and snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter | −4°C | −16°C | 262 mm |
| Spring | 10°C | −4°C | 262 mm |
| Summer | 24°C | 10°C | 327 mm |
| Autumn | 12°C | 0°C | 327 mm |
ECCC normals, 1991–2020 (St-Jovite); the forecast is on the Weather page
Each seat on La Minerve’s council speaks for just 210 residents, fewer than in 77% of Quebec municipalities
Marie-Hélène Gaudreau (Bloc Québécois) is the MP for Laurentides—Labelle, the riding (a federal electoral district, which elects one MP) that takes in La Minerve.
Wikidata, MAMH, MMAH, Statistics Canada
Bibliothèque De La Minerve is La Minerve’s public library
The library is 2.1 km from the centre of La Minerve.
Provincial library statistics, OpenStreetMap, the CRA and Statistics Canada
The nearest high school to La Minerve is 15 km away
| School | Level | Students | System |
|---|---|---|---|
| École La RelèveIn La MinerveElementary | Elementary | – | French public |
| Schools within 3 km | La Minerve | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nearest secondary school | 15 km | 1.2 km | 1.2 km |
| Nearest elementary school | 2.1 km | 0.5 km | 0.5 km |
Provincial school lists and results, 2025-26 · Ungraded on schools in Quebec, because the ministry publishes its success rates by school service centre, not school by school.
Everything we know about La Minerve
Famous people from around La Minerve
2 notable people were born in La Minerve; with them, the best known born in the towns around it.
Photo credits
Jacqueline Gareau: Gianina Lindsey, CC BY 2.0 · Guillaume Gfeller: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0
La Minerve’s neighbours
The nearest places of 1,000 or more. Statistics Canada
| Town | People | km | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Minerve | 1,492 | — | — | C− | B+ | A |
| Labelle | 2,861 | 16 | B− | C+ | B+ | A |
| Nominingue | 2,290 | 16 | — | C+ | C+ | A |
| Rivière-Rouge | 4,882 | 18 | C | C+ | C+ | A+ |
People: Statistics Canada, Census 2021. Distances: centre to centre.
Questions about La Minerve
Do people in La Minerve speak French?
French comes first: 56.2% speak it alone, while 42% manage both languages (Canadian towns: 8%).
Is La Minerve growing?
Yes: the census counted 1,205 in 2016 and 1,421 in 2021, a rise of 17.9%, against 4.1% for the median of Canadian towns. The 2025 estimate is 1,492.
Who are the people of La Minerve?
At the 2021 census, 3% were immigrants and 0% belonged to a visible minority (Canadian towns’ median: 15%). 6% identify as First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What kind of homes are in La Minerve?
Mostly 96% single-detached houses (the median of Canadian towns: 64%), with 0% of homes in buildings of five or more storeys. Households hold 1.8 people on average, and 42% have just one.
About La Minerve
Town in Quebec
Statistics Canada treats La Minerve as a single census subdivision in Quebec, and TownRatings keeps to that line.
Statistics Canada: population estimates 2025 (17-10-0155), Census of Population 2021, 2021 census boundaries.
- Population
- 1,492 (people, 2025 estimate)
- Province or territory
- Quebec
- Census division
- Les Laurentides
- Census subdivision
- 2478130
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).