Vieux-LimoilouQuébec

For health, Vieux-Limoilou is ahead of almost every Canadian town

On average 14% of adults live with arthritis, diabetes or high blood pressure, below Quebec’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (17%) alike. Women in the region live to 84.7 and men to 81.1, 82.9 years taken together (2022/2024). In the health survey, 62% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Quebec’s 57%. The region has fewer smokers than Quebec, one in ten adults to 12%.

Renting in Vieux-Limoilou eats 30% of household income, more than in Quebec’s towns and across Canadian towns

Source area for rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom: the Québec metro area

The median home value was $260,000, below both Quebec’s towns ($300,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000).

Wildfire low, radon 8.8%: how Vieux-Limoilou stands on hazards

Measured across the Capitale-Nationale health region: radon tests · The earthquake risk numbers here cover the city of Québec

Earthquakes add more: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.14 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. The national flood inventory has no study for Vieux-Limoilou.

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

Precipitation in Vieux-Limoilou tops that of 90% of Canadian towns: 1,216 mm a year

Snowfall adds up to 299 cm a year, higher than both Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). July is the wettest month, with 129 mm of rain and snow on average. A normal December brings 77 cm of snow, the most of any month. A July afternoon in Vieux-Limoilou typically reaches 25.1°C.

Vieux-Limoilou is more bilingual than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 50% speak both languages

The under-15s are 12% of the population here. People 65 and over make up 18% of the town, lower than both Quebec’s towns (20%) and Canadian towns (19%).

In Vieux-Limoilou, November normally means 4°C afternoons and −3°C nights

In November, the normal is 84 mm of rain and snow. About 24 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Then December: −3°C by day, −10°C at night. For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Québec forecast.

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

Vieux-Limoilou is served by Bibliothèque de Québec, the library of all of Québec, so the figures here are the city’s, for 594,443 people.

Protected land at Vieux-Limoilou’s edge: Battures de Beauport Water Fowl Gathering Area

3.6 km out lies the largest, Île d'Orléans (ouest du pont) Water Fowl Gathering Area, at 325 ha. Within 10 km of the town, 4.9% of the land is protected, against 2.3% around a typical Canadian town. National parks are all over 100 km off. Jacques-Cartier National Park (Québec) is the closest provincial park, at 31 km.

For safety, Vieux-Limoilou gets a B−

Its police area records 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). Figures for Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 are published for the Québec service area as a whole, not for Vieux-Limoilou alone.

4 boards run the schools in and around Vieux-Limoilou

Of the 109, 3 teach in English (10% of schools in Quebec). Within 3 km of Vieux-Limoilou are 71 elementary schools, 28 secondary schools and 10 schools for every grade.

History in Vieux-Limoilou goes back to 1535: Cartier-Brébeuf

Older housing, built before 1961, accounts for 58% of homes, higher than both Quebec’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%). All 2 historic places listed here are of the highest rank.