Duberger—Les SaulesQuébec

Few places match Duberger—Les Saules for health: it beats almost every Canadian town

The survey counts one in ten adults as smokers, lower than both Quebec’s towns (12%) and Canadian towns (12%). People in the region live to 82.9 on average: 84.7 for women and 81.1 for men in 2022/2024. In the health survey, 62% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Quebec’s 57%. Measured from where Duberger—Les Saules’ residents live, a hospital is 2.8 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see.

Commuters in Duberger—Les Saules have a short way to work, 19 min on average, less than in both Quebec’s towns and Canadian towns

83% of commuters drove to work at the census.

Measured against local pay, Duberger—Les Saules costs more to live in than three in four Canadian towns

The median home value was $264,000, lower than both Quebec’s towns ($300,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000). Rent took just over a fifth of household income, above both Quebec’s towns (18%) and Canadian towns (20%).

Flood mapping exists for Duberger—Les Saules: 3 on record, latest by Ville de Québec

Measured across the Capitale-Nationale health region: radon tests

Radon around Duberger—Les Saules is ordinary for Canada: nearly a tenth of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). NRCan’s model puts the yearly earthquake loss at $0.14 per $1,000 of building value, near Quebec’s towns ($0.14) and higher than Canadian towns ($0.030). Duberger—Les Saules doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Québec.

More rain and snow fall on Duberger—Les Saules than on 87% of Canadian towns: 1,173 mm a year

A normal December brings 77 cm of snow, the most of any month. The most precipitation falls in July: 119 mm in a normal year. Snow totals 299 cm over the year, above Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm) alike. A July afternoon in Duberger—Les Saules typically reaches 25.1°C.

38% of Duberger—Les Saules’s residents speak English and French (Quebec’s towns: 44%; Canadian towns: 7.5%)

Just over a fifth of residents have reached 65. Children under 15 make up 16%, lower than Quebec’s towns (17%) and near Canadian towns (16%).

In Duberger—Les Saules, November normally means 4°C afternoons and −3°C nights

Rain and snow over a typical November come to 91 mm. Into December, the normals move to −3°C and −10°C. About 24 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Vanier forecast, on the Weather page.

At 8.5 visits per person served, Bibliothèque de Québec is busier than nine in ten Quebec’s town libraries

Bibliothèque de Québec serves the whole of Québec, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 594,443 people, Duberger—Les Saules among them.

The nearest provincial park to Duberger—Les Saules is Jacques-Cartier National Park (Québec), 30 km away

The largest is Île d'Orléans (ouest du pont) Water Fowl Gathering Area: 325 ha, 9.6 km from the edge of town. Count 29 protected areas within 10 km of town. There is no national park within 100 km of the town. 3.7% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%).

Duberger—Les Saules is graded a B− for safety

Violence across its police area runs at 15.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 63 over 2023–25, between Quebec’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67). Property crime in the area its police cover: 22.1 per 1,000 people a year.

14 of the 77 schools around Duberger—Les Saules are independent

In English: 4 of the 77 schools, where in Quebec the share is 10%. No single board runs them all: there are 3. Its 3 km reach takes in 46 elementary schools, 23 secondary schools and 8 schools for every grade, all of Duberger—Les Saules’s schooling.