Saint-MichelQuébec

Few places match Saint-Michel for health: it beats almost every Canadian town

Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure affect 14% of the region’s adults on average, below Quebec’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (17%) alike. People in the region live to 82.9 on average: 84.7 for women and 81.1 for men in 2022/2024. Across the region, 62% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Quebec as a whole manages 57%. At 9.6%, the share of adults who smoke sits under the 12% for Quebec. Behind health survey and life expectancy sits data gathered across the Région de la Capitale-Nationale, with Saint-Michel one part of it.

Trips to work from Saint-Michel are shorter than from Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 22 min on average

The car took 90% of commuters, near both Quebec’s towns (90%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Wildfire low, radon 8.8%: how Saint-Michel stands on hazards

Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.14 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). The national flood inventory has no study for Saint-Michel. Saint-Michel shares its radon tests numbers with the rest of the Capitale-Nationale health region. Saint-Michel doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Québec.

Saint-Michel is a town of owners: 83% of households own their home, above Quebec’s towns and Canadian towns

Shelter took 30% or more of income for 5% of households, below both Quebec’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (18%). Rent took 16% of household income, below Quebec’s towns (18%) and Canadian towns (20%) alike.

Saint-Michel has cooler summers than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: July highs of 24.9°C

A normal July brings 129 mm of precipitation, more than any other month. Some 299 cm of snow falls in a typical year, above both Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). Saint-Michel sees January nights of −16.6°C on average. Most of the snow comes in December, about 77 cm.

36% of Saint-Michel’s residents speak English and French (Quebec’s towns: 44%; Canadian towns: 7.5%)

5.2% of residents belong to a visible minority, between Quebec’s towns (3.5%) and Canadian towns (15%). The 65-and-over age group makes up 19% of residents.

A normal November in Saint-Michel runs from −4°C to 4°C

For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Québec forecast. A normal November brings 84 mm of rain and snow. By December, a normal day reaches −3°C and a night falls to −12°C. About 24 cm of snow falls in a normal November.

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

The library figures on this page are Québec’s: Québec public library serves all 594,443 people of the city, Saint-Michel among them.

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

Within 100 km there is no national park. The 10 km around town hold 20 protected areas. The largest named area nearby is Île d'Orléans (ouest du pont) Water Fowl Gathering Area, 325 ha, 2.7 km away. Protected areas cover 5.2% of the land within 10 km; for the typical Canadian town it is 2.3%.

Saint-Michel gets a B− for safety

Area-wide: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000, counted over the Québec service area

The force’s area logs 15.1 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Property crime in its police area ran at 22.1 per 1,000 residents a year, higher than Quebec’s towns (16.6) yet lower than Canadian towns (31.2).

36 schools in and around Saint-Michel: 26 elementary schools, 8 secondary schools and 2 schools for every grade

None of them teaches in English, though 10% of schools in Quebec do.