Saint-EspritQuebec

Only 12% of households in Saint-Esprit spend 30% or more of their income on shelter, against 18% in the typical Canadian town

The median home value was $250,000, below Quebec’s towns ($300,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000) alike. Households that own their home make up 72%.

Saint-Esprit’s grade for safety: a B

Area-wide: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000, counted over Montcalm MRC

Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 54 over 2023–25, near Quebec’s towns (56) and lower than Canadian towns (67). The force’s area logs 12.4 thefts, break-ins and acts of damage per 1,000 residents a year.

Around Saint-Esprit, 56% of adults call their health very good or excellent

Health survey and life expectancy for the Région de Lanaudière

For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 82.0 years at birth, 83.7 for women and 80.3 for men. The survey counts 14% of adults as smokers, above both Quebec’s towns (12%) and Canadian towns (12%). What sets Saint-Esprit apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 23 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical).

January in Saint-Esprit bites harder than in 75% of Canadian towns

Snow totals 217 cm over the year, about level with Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and above Canadian towns (141 cm). In July, daytime highs in Saint-Esprit average 26.6°C. January is the snowiest month, with 52 cm on average. A normal October brings 103 mm of precipitation, more than any other month.

The nearest provincial park to Saint-Esprit is Îles-de-Boucherville National Park (Québec), 29 km away

OpenStreetMap shows 2 unnamed beaches within 5 km. La Mauricie National Park is the closest national park, 93 km from town. CPCAD lists 3 protected areas within 10 km. On top of that, 0.2% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%).

Expect November days around 5°C in Saint-Esprit, nights around −3°C

December follows at −2°C by day and −10°C by night. A normal November brings 84 mm of rain and snow. Snowfall in a normal November: 16 cm. At the extremes, July afternoons reach 27°C and January nights −16°C.

In 2021, Luc Thériault carried Montcalm by 17,182 votes, a margin wider than 82% of Canada’s ridings

Saint-Esprit sends one MNA (Member of the National Assembly, Québec’s legislature) to the National Assembly of Québec from Rousseau, though no open record we can reuse gives the name.

Saint-Esprit has one public library, Bibliothèque De Saint-Esprit (Alice-Parizeau)

From the centre of Saint-Esprit, it is 0.5 km away.

Saint-Esprit is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Gouvernement du Québec

Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.17 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). In Health Canada’s survey, just 3.9% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). Wildfire is rare near Saint-Esprit: 0.1% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.001% a year. Figures for radon tests are published for the Lanaudiere health region as a whole, not for Saint-Esprit alone.

The share of 15-to-64s with a job in Saint-Esprit tops that of 94% of Canadian towns

The commute to work averages 29 min. The car carried 92% of commuters at the census.

29% of Saint-Esprit’s residents speak English and French (Quebec’s towns: 44%; Canadian towns: 7.5%)

Visible minorities make up 2.2% of the population, lower than both Quebec’s towns (3.5%) and Canadian towns (15%). 20% of residents are 65 or over.

Around Saint-Esprit, 8 elementary schools and 3 secondary schools: 11 schools in all

Measured from the centre, the closest high school lies 6.7 km off, higher than both Quebec’s towns (1.2 km) and Canadian towns (1.2 km). None of them teaches in English, though one in ten schools in Quebec do.

Saint-Esprit keeps its older homes: 36% from before 1961