L'AéroportQuébec

L'Aéroport scores better for health than almost every Canadian town

Area-wide: health survey and life expectancy, counted over the Région de la Capitale-Nationale

Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure affect 14% of the region’s adults on average, lower than both Quebec’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (17%). Smoking is rarer than in the province: one in ten adults, against 12% for Quebec. Across the region, 62% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Quebec as a whole manages 57%. Life expectancy in the region is 82.9 years (84.7 for women, 81.1 for men, 2022/2024).

Commuters in L'Aéroport have a short way to work, 20 min on average, less than in Quebec’s towns and Canadian towns

Driving is how 91% of commuters got to work at the census.

Hazards in L'Aéroport: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 8.8% of tested homes

Averaged over the years, quake damage costs $0.14 per $1,000 of buildings, about level with Quebec’s towns ($0.14) and above Canadian towns ($0.030). No flood study for L'Aéroport is on the national inventory. L'Aéroport doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Capitale-Nationale health region.

L'Aéroport has cooler summers than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: July highs of 25.0°C

The most precipitation falls in July: 119 mm in a normal year. Snowfall adds up to 331 cm a year, above both Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). Midwinter nights in L'Aéroport bottom out at −16.7°C on average. Between the last spring frost, 10 May, and the first in autumn, 5 October, lie 148 days.

Fewer households are stretched by shelter costs in L'Aéroport: 7% spend 30%+ of income, against 18% in the typical Canadian town

Home ownership covers 82% of households. Rent took 17% of household income, about level with Quebec’s towns (18%) and below Canadian towns (20%).

41% of L'Aéroport’s residents speak English and French (Quebec’s towns: 44%; Canadian towns: 7.5%)

Visible minorities make up 6.9% of the population, higher than Quebec’s towns (3.5%) yet lower than Canadian towns (15%). People 65 and over make up 20% of the town.

A normal November in L'Aéroport runs from −4°C to 4°C

Then December: −3°C by day, −11°C at night. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 91 mm. For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Vanier forecast.

Bibliothèque de Québec logs 8.5 visits per person served, more than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries

L'Aéroport is served by Bibliothèque de Québec, the library of all of Québec, so the figures here are the city’s, for 594,443 people.

From L'Aéroport, Jacques-Cartier National Park (Québec) is the nearest provincial park (30 km)

La Mauricie National Park is the closest national park, 98 km from town. The 10 km around town hold 33 protected areas. The largest named area nearby is Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly (Pointe Aubin) Water Fowl Gathering Area, 562 ha, 9.3 km away. 4% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%).

L'Aéroport gets a B− for safety

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

In and around L'Aéroport, 42 schools: 31 elementary schools, 9 secondary schools and 2 schools for every grade

No English-language school is among them; in Quebec, 10% of schools are.