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For health, Jésuites is ahead of almost every Canadian town

The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 82.9, with women at 84.7 and men at 81.1. Age-standardised, 62% of the region’s adults put their health at very good or excellent, higher than both Quebec’s towns (56%) and Canadian towns (52%). At 9.6%, the share of adults who smoke sits under the 12% for Quebec. What sets Jésuites apart within its region is distance, and at 2.9 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Nobody publishes health survey and life expectancy for Jésuites alone, so this card uses the figure for the Région de la Capitale-Nationale.

Measured against local pay, Jésuites costs more to live in than four in five Canadian towns

16% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, between Quebec’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (18%). A year’s rent came to 22% of the median household income, higher than both Quebec’s towns (18%) and Canadian towns (20%). For rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom, the only official count covers all of the Québec metro area, Jésuites included.

Jésuites’ hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 8.8% of area homes over the radon guideline

Seismic risk runs high: $0.14 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. No one has filed a flood map for Jésuites on the national inventory. Jésuites shares its radon tests numbers with the rest of the Capitale-Nationale health region.

Trips to work from Jésuites are shorter than from Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 21 min on average

At the census, 81% of commuters went by car.

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

Midsummer afternoons in Jésuites peak at about 25.1°C. Snowfall adds up to 299 cm a year, above both Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). For the wettest month, look to July: 119 mm on average. A normal December brings 77 cm of snow, the most of any month.

An older town: 28% of people in Jésuites are 65 or over, more than in both Quebec’s towns and Canadian towns

Children under 15 make up 15%, below both Quebec’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (16%). 37% speak both English and French, lower than Quebec’s towns (44%) yet higher than Canadian towns (7.5%).

A normal November in Jésuites runs from −3°C to 4°C

ECCC’s forecast for Vanier is on the Weather page, hour by hour. The month after, December, normally sees −3°C afternoons and −10°C nights. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 91 mm. Snowfall in a normal November: 24 cm.

More visits per person served than nine in ten 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, Jésuites among them.

The nearest provincial park to Jésuites is Jacques-Cartier National Park (Québec), 26 km away

Protected areas cover 4.6% of the land within 10 km; for the typical Canadian town it is 2.3%. National parks are all over 100 km off. CPCAD lists 17 protected areas within 10 km. Île d'Orléans (ouest du pont) Water Fowl Gathering Area (325 ha) is the biggest, 6.1 km from town.

Jésuites earns a B− for safety

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

For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 15.1 violent incidents are reported each year. The index for the force that serves it came to 63, above Quebec’s towns (56) but below Canadian towns (67). Property crime in the area its police cover: 22.1 per 1,000 people a year.

Around Jésuites, 31 elementary schools, 11 secondary schools and 4 schools for every grade: 46 schools in all

None of them teaches in English, though 10% of schools in Quebec do. Counting each board with a school within 3 km gives 2, near Quebec’s towns (2) and lower than Canadian towns (3).