Notre-Dame-des-PrairiesQuebec

Around Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, 56% of adults call their health very good or excellent

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

Measured from where Notre-Dame-des-Prairies’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 2.5 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. 14% of adults smoke, daily or now and then, above both Quebec’s towns (12%) and Canadian towns (12%). Lives in the region last 82.0 years on average (2022/2024): 83.7 for women, 80.3 for men.

Notre-Dame-des-Prairies has just 12% of households spending at least 30% of income on shelter, where the typical Canadian town has 18%

Owners put the median home at $250,000, lower than both Quebec’s towns ($300,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000). 69% of households own their home. Notre-Dame-des-Prairies doesn’t get its own rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom figures; the ones here come from the Joliette metro area.

More rain and snow fall on Notre-Dame-des-Prairies than on 82% of Canadian towns: 1,109 mm a year

In January, overnight lows in Notre-Dame-des-Prairies settle at −16.0°C. A normal winter brings 202 cm of snow, lower than Quebec’s towns (217 cm) yet higher than Canadian towns (141 cm). August is the wettest month, with 114 mm of rain and snow on average. Snow peaks in December: 49 cm in a normal year.

29% of Notre-Dame-des-Prairies’s residents speak English and French (Quebec’s towns: 44%; Canadian towns: 7.5%)

1.6% of residents belong to a visible minority, below both Quebec’s towns (3.5%) and Canadian towns (15%). First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 1% of residents, below Quebec’s towns (1.5%) and Canadian towns (2.8%) alike.

From Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, Îles-de-Boucherville National Park (Québec) is the nearest provincial park (44 km)

The tally of protected areas open to the public within 10 km is 1, below both Quebec’s towns (10) and Canadian towns (4). The largest named area nearby is Tourbières-de-Lanoraie Ecological Reserve, 415 ha, 7.8 km away. Protected areas cover 1.2% of the land within 10 km; for the typical Canadian town it is 2.3%. The nearest national park is La Mauricie National Park, 72 km away.

For safety, Notre-Dame-des-Prairies gets a B−

Shared with the rest of Joliette MRC: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

For violence alone, its police area’s index was 108, higher than both Quebec’s towns (88) and Canadian towns (86). The force’s area logs 19.2 thefts, break-ins and acts of damage per 1,000 residents a year. Violent crime in the area its police cover: 14.7 per 1,000 people a year.

In Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, November normally means 5°C afternoons and −3°C nights

Next comes December, with normal highs of −2°C and lows of −10°C. A normal November brings 90 mm of rain and snow. November usually brings some 12 cm of snow. Also worth knowing: the forecast on the Weather page is ECCC’s for Joliette.

Notre-Dame-des-Prairies’s council spends less per resident than 87% of Québec’s local municipalities

The riding (a federal electoral district, which elects one MP) covering Notre-Dame-des-Prairies is Joliette—Manawan, and Gabriel Ste-Marie (Bloc Québécois) represents it in the House of Commons.

Notre-Dame-des-Prairies’s public library is Bibliotheque Municipale De Notre-Dame-Des-Prairies

Bibliotheque Municipale De Notre-Dame-Des-Prairies has one location for the 9,580 people it serves.

A flood study covers Notre-Dame-des-Prairies: 2 on the national inventory, the newest from MRC Joliette

Burn scars are few around Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, with 0.1% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.001% a year). Radon is lower than usual: 3.9% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.16 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Notre-Dame-des-Prairies shares its radon tests numbers with the rest of the Lanaudiere health region.

Trips to work from Notre-Dame-des-Prairies are shorter than from Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 23 min on average

The car took 93% of commuters, about level with Quebec’s towns (90%) and above Canadian towns (89%).

Notre-Dame-des-Prairies and its edges hold 25 schools: 16 elementary schools, 6 secondary schools and 3 schools for every grade

Of the 25, 2 teach in English (10% of schools in Quebec). The schools around it answer to 2 boards, near Quebec’s towns (2) and lower than Canadian towns (3).