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For health, Maricourt gets an A

Area-wide: health survey and life expectancy, counted over the Région de la Montérégie

The survey counts 11% of adults as smokers, below both Quebec’s towns (12%) and Canadian towns (12%). For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 82.5 years at birth, 84.2 for women and 80.8 for men. On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 55% very good or excellent, 57% for Quebec. Closer to home, a hospital sits 4.3 km from the average resident of Maricourt, about the norm of 3.7 km.

Maricourt’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 8.2% of area homes over the radon guideline

Earthquakes add more: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.23 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Little of the land around Maricourt has burned: 0.1% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.002% a year. The national flood inventory has no study of the town. Maricourt shares its earthquake risk numbers with the rest of the city of Longueuil.

The share of 15-to-64s with a job in Maricourt tops that of 79% of Canadian towns

Getting to work takes 28 min on average.

For safety, Maricourt gets a B

Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 for the Longueuil service area

For violence alone, its police area’s index was 70, below Quebec’s towns (88) and Canadian towns (86) alike. The force’s area logs 9.2 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Property crime in the area its police cover: 18.1 per 1,000 people a year.

Maricourt has just 7% of households spending at least 30% of income on shelter, where the typical Canadian town has 18%

Owners make up 83% of households, higher than both Quebec’s towns (70%) and Canadian towns (74%). A year’s rent came to 17% of the median household income, near Quebec’s towns (18%) and lower than Canadian towns (20%). For rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom, the only official count covers all of the Montréal metro area, Maricourt included.

More rain and snow fall on Maricourt than on 74% of Canadian towns: 1,041 mm a year

Frost comes on 149 days a year, lower than both Quebec’s towns (161) and Canadian towns (159). For the wettest month, look to October: 103 mm on average. Most of the snow comes in January, about 52 cm. Maricourt sees July afternoons of 26.6°C on average.

Maricourt is more bilingual than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 50% speak both languages

17% are under 15, above Quebec’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (16%) alike. The 65-and-over age group makes up 18% of residents.

Expect November days around 6°C in Maricourt, nights around −2°C

Over the year, July is warmest at 27°C by day and January coldest at −14°C by night. Then December: −1°C by day, −9°C at night. About 16 cm of snow falls in a normal November. A normal November brings 84 mm of rain and snow.

Longueuil has one council seat for every 14,130 residents, more than 99% of municipalities in Quebec

No riding is named for Maricourt: its city spreads over several, and the National Assembly of Québec’s boundary file carries non-commercial terms.

No public library stands in Maricourt: the closest, Reseau Des Bibliotheques De Longueuil, is 2.2 km away

Longueuil public library serves the whole of Longueuil, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 267,524 people, Maricourt among them.

Mont-Saint-Bruno National Park (Québec) is 7.4 km from Maricourt

One unnamed beach is mapped within 5 km. Biggest among them: Bassin de la Prairie (Grand Herbier) Water Fowl Gathering Area, 903 ha, 7.1 km off. The protected share within 10 km is 6.5%, where a typical Canadian town has 2.3%. There is no national park within 100 km of the town.

In and around Maricourt, 56 schools: 42 elementary schools, 11 secondary schools and 3 schools for every grade

Schooling in English is on offer at 8 of 56; in Quebec, one in ten schools teach in it. The schools around it answer to 2 boards, about level with Quebec’s towns (2) and below Canadian towns (3).