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More adults feel healthy around Cité-Universitaire: 62% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)

On average 14% of adults live with arthritis, diabetes or high blood pressure, below Quebec’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (17%) alike. Smoking is rarer than in the province: 9.6% of adults, against 12% for Quebec. Lives in the region last 82.9 years on average (2022/2024): 84.7 for women, 81.1 for men. For Cité-Universitaire itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.0 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Cité-Universitaire doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the Région de la Capitale-Nationale.

Rent takes more of local pay in Cité-Universitaire than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 28% of household income

Area-wide: rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom, counted over the Québec metro area

29% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, higher than both Quebec’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (18%). The median home value was $376,000, between Quebec’s towns ($300,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000).

Commuters in Cité-Universitaire have a short way to work, 21 min on average, less than in both Quebec’s towns and Canadian towns

A flood study covers Cité-Universitaire: 1 on the national inventory, the newest from Ville de Québec

Shared with the rest of the Capitale-Nationale health region: radon tests

Radon around Cité-Universitaire is ordinary for Canada: 8.8% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Seismic risk runs high: $0.14 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Behind earthquake risk sits data gathered across the city of Québec, with Cité-Universitaire one part of it.

More rain and snow fall on Cité-Universitaire than on 87% of Canadian towns: 1,173 mm a year

A July afternoon in Cité-Universitaire typically reaches 25.1°C. Some 299 cm of snow falls in a typical year, above Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm) alike. A normal July brings 119 mm of precipitation, more than any other month. Most of the snow comes in December, about 77 cm.

More people in Cité-Universitaire speak English and French than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 57%

Nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over, higher than both Quebec’s towns (20%) and Canadian towns (19%). Children under 15 count for nearly a tenth of the people here.

A normal November in Cité-Universitaire runs from −3°C to 4°C

A normal November brings 91 mm of rain and snow. By December, a normal day reaches −3°C and a night falls to −10°C. Snow is normal by November, about 24 cm over the month. For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Vanier forecast.

More visits per person served than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries: Québec public library counts 8.5

Québec public library serves the whole of Québec, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 594,443 people, Cité-Universitaire among them.

From Cité-Universitaire, Jacques-Cartier National Park (Québec) is the nearest provincial park (35 km)

OpenStreetMap shows one walking route nearby, the De Cap en Cap 1. Within 100 km there is no national park. Of the country within 10 km, 4.1% lies in protected areas; the median Canadian town has 2.3%. Battures de Beauport Water Fowl Gathering Area (311 ha) is the biggest, 8.0 km from town.

For safety, Cité-Universitaire gets a B−

The force’s area logs 15.1 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Property crime in the area its police cover: 22.1 per 1,000 people a year. Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 63 over 2023–25, above Quebec’s towns (56) but below Canadian towns (67). Figures for Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 are published for the Québec service area as a whole, not for Cité-Universitaire alone.

12 of the 50 schools around Cité-Universitaire are independent

4 of the 50 teach in English, against 10% of schools in Quebec. Its schools answer to 3 boards. Within 3 km of Cité-Universitaire are 29 elementary schools, 15 secondary schools and 6 schools for every grade.

Cité-Universitaire has 4 historic places on the registers, 3 in the top tier

Designations here include a municipal citation. Go back to 1818 and you reach Auberge Hugh-Glover, the oldest of them. Older housing, built before 1961, accounts for 18% of homes, lower than Quebec’s towns (21%) and near Canadian towns (18%).