OrsainvilleQuébec

For health, Orsainville is ahead of almost every Canadian town

At 9.6%, the share of adults who smoke sits under the 12% for Quebec. In the health survey, 62% of adults in the region rated their health very good or excellent, higher than both Quebec’s towns (56%) and Canadian towns (52%). Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 82.9, women 84.7 and men 81.1 (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 6.0 km from the average resident of Orsainville, further than the usual 3.7 km. Figures for health survey and life expectancy are published for the Région de la Capitale-Nationale as a whole, not for Orsainville alone.

Wildfire low, radon 8.8%: how Orsainville stands on hazards

Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Capitale-Nationale health region · Earthquake risk for the city of Québec

Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.14 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). No flood study for Orsainville is on the national inventory.

Working-age people in Orsainville are more likely to have a job than in 80% of Canadian towns

85% of commuters drove, below Quebec’s towns (90%) and Canadian towns (89%) alike. On average, the journey to work lasts 23 min.

Orsainville has just 11% of households spending at least 30% of income on shelter, where the typical Canadian town has 18%

Two thirds of households own their home, close to Quebec’s towns (70%) and below Canadian towns (74%). A year’s rent came to a fifth of the median household income, about level with Canadian towns (20%) and above Quebec’s towns (18%).

Orsainville is wetter than 87% of Canadian towns: 1,173 mm of rain and snow a year

Some 299 cm of snow falls in a typical year, above both Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). Rain and snow peak in July, at 119 mm. A normal December brings 77 cm of snow, the most of any month. A July afternoon in Orsainville typically reaches 25.1°C.

34% of Orsainville’s residents speak English and French (Quebec’s towns: 44%; Canadian towns: 7.5%)

7.7% of residents belong to a visible minority, between Quebec’s towns (3.5%) and Canadian towns (15%). First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 1.2% of residents, lower than both Quebec’s towns (1.5%) and Canadian towns (2.8%).

Orsainville in November: highs near 4°C, lows near −3°C

In November, the normal is 91 mm of rain and snow. A typical November adds 24 cm of snow. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Vanier forecast, on the Weather page.

Québec public library logs 8.5 visits per person served, more than nine in ten Quebec’s town libraries

Orsainville is served by Québec public library, the library of all of Québec, so the figures here are the city’s, for 594,443 people.

Jacques-Cartier National Park (Québec), 24 km away, is the closest provincial park to Orsainville

There is no national park within 100 km of the town. Within 5 km lie 6 beaches, unnamed on the map. The largest named area nearby is Île d'Orléans (ouest du pont) Water Fowl Gathering Area, 325 ha, 8.9 km away.

For safety, Orsainville gets a B−

Violent incidents in its police area came to 15.1 per 1,000 residents a year, above both Quebec’s towns (12.4) and Canadian towns (12). Property crime in the area its police cover: 22.1 per 1,000 people a year. Orsainville shares its Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 numbers with the rest of the Québec service area.

Around Orsainville, 24 elementary schools, 5 secondary schools and 1 school for every grade: 30 schools in all

No English-language school is among them; in Quebec, one in ten schools are. Schooling here is split between 2 boards, close to Quebec’s towns (2) and below Canadian towns (3).

Back to 1791 in Orsainville, with Maison Jobin-Bédard

Inside the town there are 2 historic places, all of them top designations.