Pointe-aux-OutardesQuebec

Pointe-aux-Outardes is a town of owners: 94% of households own their home, above Quebec’s towns and Canadian towns

Source area for rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom: the Baie-Comeau metro area

Rent took 12% of household income, lower than both Quebec’s towns (18%) and Canadian towns (20%). Shelter took 30% or more of income for 6% of households, lower than both Quebec’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (18%).

Pointe-aux-Outardes has cooler summers than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: July highs of 21.3°C

The thermometer drops below freezing on 194 days a year, higher than both Quebec’s towns (161) and Canadian towns (159). January nights in Pointe-aux-Outardes drop to −18.8°C on average. Gardeners get 114 frost-free days, from 29 May to 21 September. A normal July brings 111 mm of precipitation, more than any other month.

Pointe-aux-Outardes is ringed by protected land: 42% within 10 km

CPCAD lists 19 protected areas within 10 km. No national park lies within 100 km. A provincial park, Bic National Park (Québec), lies 76 km away. Within 5 km lie 2 beaches, unnamed on the map.

Violent crime weighs more where Pointe-aux-Outardes is policed than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: a violent severity index of 134

Area-wide: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000, counted over Manicouagan MRC

Its police area records 20.6 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Property crime in the area its police cover: 12.5 per 1,000 people a year. Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 70 over 2023–25, higher than Quebec’s towns (56) and near Canadian towns (67).

Expect November days around 3°C in Pointe-aux-Outardes, nights around −5°C

At the extremes, July afternoons reach 21°C and January nights −19°C. The month after, December, normally sees −4°C afternoons and −13°C nights. November usually brings some 31 cm of snow. A normal November brings 87 mm of rain and snow.

210 residents per council seat in Pointe-aux-Outardes, a lower ratio than 78% of Quebec municipalities

In the National Assembly of Québec, Pointe-aux-Outardes belongs to René-Lévesque; who holds it as MNA (Member of the National Assembly, Québec’s legislature) isn’t on an open record, so no one is named.

Pointe-aux-Outardes has no public library of its own; the nearest is Bibliothèque De Chute-Aux-Outardes, 3.2 km away

After it comes Bibliothèque De Ragueneau (Ragueneau), 7.5 km away.

More adults feel healthy around Pointe-aux-Outardes: 61% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)

Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 79.4, women 82.1 and men 77.0 (2022/2024). The survey counts 15% of adults as smokers, above both Quebec’s towns (12%) and Canadian towns (12%). Measured from where Pointe-aux-Outardes’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 15 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km.

Wildfire moderate, radon 4.7%: how Pointe-aux-Outardes stands on hazards

Some 3.9% of the land within 25 km of Pointe-aux-Outardes has burned since 1986; at 0.10% a year that is moderate, not high. Earthquakes add more: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.10 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. No one has filed a flood map for Pointe-aux-Outardes on the national inventory. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the Cote-Nord health region, Pointe-aux-Outardes included.

No high school in or near Pointe-aux-Outardes: the closest is 13 km off

Young children have 2.9 km to the nearest elementary school, higher than both Quebec’s towns (0.5 km) and Canadian towns (0.5 km).

Pointe-aux-Outardes has fewer jobs than residents in work: 0.4 for each

The car took 98% of commuters, higher than both Quebec’s towns (90%) and Canadian towns (89%). The commute to work averages 25 min.

19% of Pointe-aux-Outardes’s residents speak English and French (Quebec’s towns: 44%; Canadian towns: 7.5%)

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 3.9% of residents, above Quebec’s towns (1.5%) and Canadian towns (2.8%) alike. Children under 15 make up 15% of residents. People 65 and over make up a fifth of the town.