Saint-BrunoQuebec

Rent takes less of local pay in Saint-Bruno than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 13% of household income

Shelter took 30% or more of income for 7% of households, lower than both Quebec’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (18%). Owners make up 73% of households.

For health, Saint-Bruno is ahead of 92% of Canadian towns

Shared with the rest of the Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean: health survey and life expectancy

Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure affect 15% of the region’s adults on average, between Quebec’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (17%). Smoking is rarer than in the province: just over one in ten adults, against 12% for Quebec. That said, in the health survey, 66% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Quebec’s 57%. People in the region live to 81.8 on average: 83.2 for women and 80.4 for men in 2022/2024.

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

Driving is how 94% of commuters got to work at the census.

Summers stay cool in Saint-Bruno: July afternoons reach 23.7°C, below Quebec’s towns and Canadian towns

The most precipitation falls in July: 112 mm in a normal year. A normal winter brings 271 cm of snow, higher than both Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). January nights in Saint-Bruno drop to −20.8°C on average. Frost usually lifts by 17 May and returns around 2 October: 137 days without it.

For safety, Saint-Bruno gets a B+

Source area for Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000: Lac-Saint-Jean-Est MRC

Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 50 over 2023–25, below both Quebec’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67). Thefts, break-ins and damage add up to 11.6 per 1,000 residents a year where it is policed.

Children make up 21% of Saint-Bruno, above Quebec’s towns and Canadian towns

17% of residents have reached 65. Both official languages: nearly a fifth of residents, below Quebec’s towns (44%) but above Canadian towns (7.5%).

Wildfire low, radon 2.8%: how Saint-Bruno stands on hazards

Radon tests for the Saguenay - Lac-Saint-Jean health region

Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.24 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Fire seldom reaches Saint-Bruno: since 1986, 0.1% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.001% a year). No one has filed a flood map for Saint-Bruno on the national inventory.

What November brings in Saint-Bruno: −5°C at night, 2°C by day

Into December, the normals move to −6°C and −15°C. Snow is normal by November, about 39 cm over the month. In November, the normal is 71 mm of rain and snow. Normal highs peak at 24°C in July; nights bottom out at −21°C in January.

Saint-Bruno’s MP is Mario Simard (Bloc Québécois), for Jonquière

The Répertoire, the page’s source for Québec ridings in the National Assembly of Québec, has no entry for Saint-Bruno.

Saint-Bruno’s public library is Bibliothèque Publique Saint-Bruno

It sits 0.4 km from the centre of Saint-Bruno.

Saint-Bruno’s teenagers travel 7.3 km to the nearest high school

Within 3 km, 2 boards share the schools, near Quebec’s towns (2) and lower than Canadian towns (3).

The nearest provincial park, Pointe-Taillon National Park (Québec), is 5.3 km from Saint-Bruno

Within 100 km there is no national park. Parks and reserves take up 0.6% of the ground within 10 km, below both Quebec’s towns (4.9%) and Canadian towns (2.3%). OpenStreetMap shows one beach within 5 km, without a name.