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Around Saint-Hugues, 55% of adults call their health very good or excellent

Area-wide: health survey and life expectancy, counted over the Région de la Montérégie

At 11%, the share of adults who smoke sits under the 12% for Quebec. Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure affect 15% of the region’s adults on average, close to Quebec’s towns (15%) and below Canadian towns (17%). Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 82.5, women 84.2 and men 80.8 (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 20 km from the average resident of Saint-Hugues, further than the usual 3.7 km.

Renting in Saint-Hugues costs 14% of household income, less than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns

Owners make up 81% of households, above both Quebec’s towns (70%) and Canadian towns (74%). 10% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, below both Quebec’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (18%).

Flood mapping exists for Saint-Hugues: 1 on record, latest by Gouvernement du Québec

Shared with the rest of the Monteregie health region: radon tests

Seismic risk runs high: $0.13 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. About as many homes carry radon around Saint-Hugues as elsewhere, 8.2% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%.

Saint-Hugues is graded a B+ for safety

The index for the force that serves it came to 50, lower than both Quebec’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67). The force’s area logs 9.7 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. What’s more, for every 1,000 residents of its police area, 14 property crimes are reported each year.

Commuters in Saint-Hugues travel further than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns, 28 min on average

94% of commuters took the car to work at the census.

A town of families: 22% of people in Saint-Hugues are under 15, more than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns

Both official languages: 27% of residents, between Quebec’s towns (44%) and Canadian towns (7.5%). Those 65 and older account for 16% of residents.

More rain and snow fall on Saint-Hugues than on 82% of Canadian towns: 1,109 mm a year

Snow peaks in December: 49 cm in a normal year. A normal August brings 114 mm of precipitation, more than any other month. Gardeners get 136 frost-free days, from 12 May to 27 September. Some 202 cm of snow falls in a typical year, below Quebec’s towns (217 cm) but above Canadian towns (141 cm).

From Saint-Hugues, Yamaska National Park (Québec) is the nearest provincial park (35 km)

OpenStreetMap shows one beach within 5 km, without a name. For a national park, La Mauricie National Park is 89 km away. Within 10 km is a single protected area.

A normal November in Saint-Hugues runs from −2°C to 6°C

ECCC’s forecast for Saint-Nicéphore is on the Weather page, hour by hour. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 90 mm. The month after, December, normally sees −2°C afternoons and −9°C nights. At the extremes, July afternoons reach 26°C and January nights −15°C.

Each seat on Saint-Hugues’ council speaks for just 200 residents, fewer than in 80% of Quebec municipalities

Saint-Hugues has 6 councillors and a mayor, Richard Veilleux.

Saint-Hugues has one public library, Bibliothèque Municipale De Saint-Hugues

The library is 0.6 km from the centre of Saint-Hugues.

Saint-Hugues’s teenagers travel 18 km to the nearest high school

An older town: 44% of Saint-Hugues’s homes predate 1961