Saint-Pierre-les-BecquetsQuebec

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

Shelter took 30% or more of income for just over one in ten households, lower than both Quebec’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (18%). The owner-occupied share of households is 83%.

Around Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, 61% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town

Health survey and life expectancy for the Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec

Chronic conditions run at 14% of adults, age-standardised, about level with Quebec’s towns (15%) and below Canadian towns (17%). The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.6, with women at 83.3 and men at 79.9. For Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets itself the measure is access, and it lags: 13 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical.

Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’s grade for safety: an A−

The index for the force that serves it came to 47, below both Quebec’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67). The force’s area logs 9.4 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. What’s more, its police area records 12.5 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets doesn’t get its own Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 figures; the ones here come from Bécancour MRC.

Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’s grade for hazard risk: a B+

Seismic risk runs high: $0.13 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. No wildfire is mapped within 25 km of Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’ homes since 1986 (0% of the land, 0.001% a year). Flood mapping: none on the national inventory of the town. Figures for radon tests are published for the Mauricie et Centre-du-Quebec health region as a whole, not for Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets alone.

23% of Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’s residents speak English and French (Quebec’s towns: 44%; Canadian towns: 7.5%)

3.2% of residents came to Canada as immigrants, between Quebec’s towns (2.6%) and Canadian towns (6.4%).

Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets is wetter than 84% of Canadian towns: 1,138 mm of rain and snow a year

Winter lows average −16.9°C in January, lower than both Quebec’s towns (−14.7°C) and Canadian towns (−13.5°C). July is the wettest month, with 133 mm of rain and snow on average. Snow peaks in December: 59 cm in a normal year.

In Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, November normally means 5°C afternoons and −3°C nights

Then December: −3°C by day, −11°C at night. About 19 cm of snow falls in a normal November. In November, the normal is 82 mm of rain and snow. For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Bécancour forecast.

One councillor per 170 residents: Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets is more closely represented than 90% of Quebec municipalities

François Pépin is mayor of Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, with 6 councillors on the council.

Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets has two public libraries, Bibliothèque De Saint-Pierre-Les-Becquets and Bibliothèque De Sainte-Cecile-De-Levrard

Its libraries report as part of a wider system, so there are no figures for Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets in particular.

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

88% of commuters took the car to work at the census.

More of the land around Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets is protected than around nearly 9 in 10 Canadian towns

For a swim, Butte à Moineau is the nearest of 8 beaches within 5 km. The nearest national park is La Mauricie National Park, 50 km away. 13 protected areas lie within 10 km. The largest named area nearby is Champlain-Batiscan Water Fowl Gathering Area, 1,297 ha, 1.8 km away.

4 schools serve Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, 3 elementary schools and 1 secondary school

Elementary school is 2.2 km away at the nearest, above both Quebec’s towns (0.5 km) and Canadian towns (0.5 km).