Saint-PamphileQuebec

Renting in Saint-Pamphile costs 13% of household income, less than in both Quebec’s towns and Canadian towns

The owner-occupied share of households is 78%. 5% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, lower than both Quebec’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (18%).

On hazards, Saint-Pamphile comes out behind 88% of Canadian towns

Shared with the rest of the Chaudiere-Appalaches health region: radon tests

Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.10 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). 13% of radon tests in the survey area came in above the guideline, higher than both Quebec’s towns (8.2%) and Canadian towns (6.6%). No one has filed a flood map for Saint-Pamphile on the national inventory.

Crime runs lighter where Saint-Pamphile is policed than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns, at an index of 44

For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 10.7 property crimes are reported each year. The violent index for its police area came to 73, lower than both Quebec’s towns (88) and Canadian towns (86). For Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000, the only official count covers all of L'Islet MRC, Saint-Pamphile included.

Saint-Pamphile has cooler summers than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: July highs of 23.9°C

Snow totals 349 cm over the year, higher than both Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). The coldest nights come in January, when Saint-Pamphile averages a low of −19.6°C. A normal December brings 83 cm of snow, the most of any month. October is the wettest month, with 99 mm of rain and snow on average.

Trips to work from Saint-Pamphile are shorter than from Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 17 min on average

87% of commuters drove to work at the census.

Saint-Pamphile sits a long way from hospital care: 47 km for the average resident

Age-standardised, nearly three fifths of the region’s adults put their health at very good or excellent, higher than both Quebec’s towns (56%) and Canadian towns (52%). Life expectancy in the region is 82.8 years (84.4 for women, 81.3 for men, 2022/2024).

Older residents shape Saint-Pamphile: 29% are 65 or over, above Quebec’s towns and Canadian towns

Both official languages: 13% of residents, lower than Quebec’s towns (44%) yet higher than Canadian towns (7.5%). Under-15s account for 13% of the population.

Around Saint-Pamphile, 1 elementary school and 1 secondary school: 2 schools in all

Expect November days around 3°C in Saint-Pamphile, nights around −6°C

Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s L'Islet forecast, on the Weather page. Into December, the normals move to −4°C and −14°C. A typical November adds 30 cm of snow. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 72 mm.

Mario Leblanc leads Saint-Pamphile as mayor

Across Quebec, 44 of the 78 MPs sit with the Liberal Party of Canada.

Saint-Pamphile has no public library of its own; the nearest is Bibliothèque La Bouquinerie, 31 km away

No library board reports for Saint-Pamphile alone: its libraries belong to a county or regional system, whose figures cover many towns.

Little of the land around Saint-Pamphile is protected: 0.1% within 10 km

03551R021 Biological Refuge (72 ha) is the biggest, 1.3 km from town. 68 km from town is Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park, the nearest provincial park. Within 100 km there is no national park.

An older town: 48% of Saint-Pamphile’s homes predate 1961