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Few places match Roberval for health: it beats 93% of Canadian towns

The region has fewer smokers than Quebec, 11% of adults to 12%. The survey finds 55% of adults in very good or excellent health, between Quebec’s towns (56%) and Canadian towns (52%). Lives in the region last 82.5 years on average (2022/2024): 84.2 for women, 80.8 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is just 2.4 km from the average resident of Roberval, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Roberval doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the Région de la Montérégie.

Measured against local pay, Roberval costs more to live in than 86% of Canadian towns

Rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom for the Montréal metro area

Rent took just over a fifth of household income, higher than both Quebec’s towns (18%) and Canadian towns (20%). Home ownership covers just over three in five households.

Hazards in Roberval: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 8.2% of tested homes

Measured across the city of Longueuil: earthquake risk

Wildfire is rare near Roberval: 0.1% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.002% a year. Earthquakes are expected to cost $0.23 a year for every $1,000 of buildings, higher than both Quebec’s towns ($0.14) and Canadian towns ($0.030). No one has filed a flood map for Roberval on the national inventory.

Roberval gets a B for safety

The Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 numbers here cover the Longueuil service area

Its police area recorded 9.2 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, lower than both Quebec’s towns (12.4) and Canadian towns (12). Property crime in the area its police cover: 18.1 per 1,000 people a year.

Fewer commuters in Roberval drive than in Quebec’s towns or across Canadian towns: 81%

Workers spend 30 min getting to work, on average.

Summer arrives in force in Roberval, hotter than in 78% of Canadian towns

Some 217 cm of snow falls in a typical year, about level with Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and above Canadian towns (141 cm). January is the snowiest month, with 52 cm on average. Rain and snow peak in October, at 103 mm. Gardeners get 167 frost-free days, from 29 April to 14 October.

Roberval is more bilingual than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 53% speak both languages

21% of residents belong to a visible minority, higher than both Quebec’s towns (3.5%) and Canadian towns (15%). First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 0.9% of residents, below Quebec’s towns (1.5%) and Canadian towns (2.8%) alike.

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

Expect about 84 mm of rain and snow over November. Snowfall in a normal November: 16 cm. December follows at −1°C by day and −9°C by night. ECCC’s forecast for Longueuil is on the Weather page, hour by hour.

One councillor per 14,130 residents: Longueuil is more thinly represented than 99% of Quebec municipalities

Federally Roberval votes in Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, its riding (a federal electoral district, which elects one MP); its sitting MP isn’t on the open record.

Roberval has no public library of its own; the nearest is Bibliotheque municipale Georges-d'Or, 1.6 km away

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

6.6 km from Roberval to Mont-Saint-Bruno National Park (Québec)

8.6 km out lies the largest, Bassin de la Prairie (Grand Herbier) Water Fowl Gathering Area, at 903 ha. 6.1% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). The nearest national park is more than 100 km away.

The 35 schools of Roberval: 27 elementary schools, 5 secondary schools and 3 schools for every grade

In English: 4 of the 35 schools, where in Quebec the share is 10%. Boards running schools in the area: 2, near Quebec’s towns (2) and lower than Canadian towns (3).