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Trips to work from Val-d'Or are shorter than from Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 17 min on average

The car took 90% of commuters, near both Quebec’s towns (90%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Violent crime weighs more where Val-d'Or is policed than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: a violent severity index of 184

Area-wide: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000, counted over Vallée-de-l'Or MRC

Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 104 over 2023–25, higher than both Quebec’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67). Violence across its police area runs at 29.2 per 1,000 residents a year.

Val-d'Or faces few natural hazards: little fire nearby, low seismic risk, radon over the guideline in 4.3% of tested homes

For earthquakes Val-d'Or is middling, $0.029 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. Fire seldom reaches Val-d'Or: since 1986, 0.5% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.01% a year). Also worth knowing: the national flood inventory has no study of the town. Val-d'Or doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Abitibi-Temiscamingue health region.

Val-d'Or has cooler summers than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: July highs of 23.8°C

A normal January night drops to −22.2°C, lower than both Quebec’s towns (−14.7°C) and Canadian towns (−13.5°C). Frost usually lifts by 31 May and returns around 16 September: 107 days without it. Rain and snow peak in September, at 102 mm.

Protected land around Val-d'Or beats nearly 9 in 10 Canadian towns

No national park lies within 100 km. Public parks and reserves within 10 km: 54, higher than both Quebec’s towns (10) and Canadian towns (4). Protected areas take in nearly a fifth of the town itself. For a provincial park, Aiguebelle National Park (Québec) lies 44 km off.

Life expectancy around Val-d'Or is 79.5 years, 2.0 less than for the typical Canadian town

Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure affect 15% of the region’s adults on average, higher than Quebec’s towns (15%) yet lower than Canadian towns (17%). Across the region, 57% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Quebec (57%). The region has more smokers than Quebec, 15% of adults to 12%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Val-d'Or live 4.0 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Nobody publishes health survey and life expectancy for Val-d'Or alone, so this card uses the figure for the Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue.

Val-d'Or in November: highs near 1°C, lows near −7°C

Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Val-d'Or forecast, on the Weather page. A normal November brings 75 mm of rain and snow. Across the year, normals run from −22°C nights in January to 24°C afternoons in July.

Val-d'Or’s mayor: Serge Allard

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

Val-d'Or public library logs 8.1 visits per person served, more than 89% of Quebec’s town libraries

The 33,214 people Val-d'Or public library serves have 2 branches to choose from.

In Val-d'Or, just 12% of households give 30% or more of their income to shelter; the typical Canadian town has 18%

Rent took 17% of household income, about level with Quebec’s towns (18%) and below Canadian towns (20%). Figures for rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom are published for the Val-d'Or metro area as a whole, not for Val-d'Or alone.

36% of Val-d'Or’s residents speak English and French (Quebec’s towns: 44%; Canadian towns: 7.5%)

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 5.2% of residents, above both Quebec’s towns (1.5%) and Canadian towns (2.8%). One measure of family life: 17% of residents are under 15. Those 65 and older account for a fifth of residents.

Schools in Val-d'Or: 3 boards, side by side

In English: one of the 53 schools, where in Quebec the share is 10%. The 3 km around Val-d'Or counts 41 elementary schools, 8 secondary schools and 4 schools for every grade.

Val-d'Or has 6 historic places on the registers, 3 in the top tier

Go back to 1934 and you reach Former Lamaque Mine, the oldest of them. Homes from before 1961 make up 21% of the stock, about level with Quebec’s towns (21%) and above Canadian towns (18%).