Longueuil or Saint-Hubert for a family: schools, parks, commutes and compromises (2026)

Living · Family duel · Longueuil or Saint-Hubert · October 13, 2026

Two neighbouring areas seen with children: schools, parks, commutes, and the compromise that decides between Longueuil and Saint-Hubert.

Longueuil or Saint-Hubert for a family, side by side. Longueuil: CEGEP Édouard-Montpetit and the École nationale d'aérotechnique (in Saint-Hubert), as well as the Université de Sherbrooke's Longueuil campus, make the city a higher-education hub. An old stock that renews itself through renovation: little new construction, pre-1960 houses to maintain. Saint-Hubert: The École nationale d'aérotechnique, attached to CEGEP Édouard-Montpetit, sits near the airport. No pedestrian downtown: Saint-Hubert is lived by car and bike, between boulevards and shopping centres. For those who want the city without the island: the metro, the cafés of Saint-Charles Street, a campus. For families who want a house with a yard below the regional median and a train to downtown.

Longueuil or Saint-Hubert for a family: two neighbouring areas, the same questions on both sides. Schools, parks, commutes and the compromise each one asks of a family, taken from our neighbourhood guides and from what families tell us after the visits. The figures are those published by the APCIQ for the second quarter of 2026; nothing is embellished.

Longueuil with children

Schools in Longueuil

• CEGEP Édouard-Montpetit and the École nationale d'aérotechnique (in Saint-Hubert), as well as the Université de Sherbrooke's Longueuil campus, make the city a higher-education hub.
• French network: Centre de services scolaire Marie-Victorin; English: Riverside.

Parks and neighbourhood life in Longueuil

• Michel-Chartrand Park is the South Shore's great urban park, with trails and deer; Parc de la Cité, in Saint-Hubert, adds a lake and paths.
• The riverfront can be cycled from Old Longueuil.

Commutes from Longueuil

• The Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke metro reaches downtown in one stop; the RTL bus terminal concentrates the South Shore lines there.

What a family has to accept in Longueuil

• An old stock that renews itself through renovation: little new construction, pre-1960 houses to maintain.
• Longueuil municipal taxes are among the highest on the South Shore, and the Saint-Hubert airport is noisy depending on the sector.

Saint-Hubert with children

Schools in Saint-Hubert

• The École nationale d'aérotechnique, attached to CEGEP Édouard-Montpetit, sits near the airport.
• French network: Centre de services scolaire Marie-Victorin; English: Riverside.

Parks and neighbourhood life in Saint-Hubert

• Parc de la Cité, with its lake, paths and playgrounds, is Saint-Hubert's green heart; Michel-Chartrand Park is minutes away.
• Bike paths connect to Longueuil and Brossard.

Commutes from Saint-Hubert

• The Saint-Hubert exo station (Saint-Hilaire line) reaches Central Station; RTL lines connect to the Longueuil terminal and the metro.

What a family has to accept in Saint-Hubert

• No pedestrian downtown: Saint-Hubert is lived by car and bike, between boulevards and shopping centres.
• Noise from the Saint-Hubert airport and rail lines depending on the street; check the flight corridor before offering.

Head to head, for a family

Our verdict

Longueuil: For those who want the city without the island: the metro, the cafés of Saint-Charles Street, a campus. Saint-Hubert: For families who want a house with a yard below the regional median and a train to downtown.

The compromise that most often decides between the two, seen with children. On one side, an old stock that renews itself through renovation: little new construction, pre-1960 houses to maintain. On the other, no pedestrian downtown: Saint-Hubert is lived by car and bike, between boulevards and shopping centres. The family that accepts one of the two more easily has found its neighbourhood. The full family portrait of each is in Living in Longueuil with a family and Living in Saint-Hubert with a family; the general duel, all profiles together, is in Longueuil or Saint-Hubert: the pros and cons.

What to check street by street before choosing

• The school catchment of the exact address, elementary and high school, with the school service centre: it changes from one street to the next in both areas.
• The real commute on a Tuesday morning, with the detour by the daycare or the school, from each shortlisted street.
• The flood zone and insurability, if the street is near a river, a canal or the St. Lawrence.
• Noise at rush hour: highway, rail line, flight corridor, commercial artery, schoolyard.

Frequently asked questions

Written by the Loaa & Manseur team from our Living in Longueuil and Living in Saint-Hubert guides and from what families tell us after the visits; no figure is added to those published by the APCIQ, and ranking schools is not our trade. The other neighbourhood duels seen with children are in neighbourhood against neighbourhood for a family.

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Published September 7, 2026 by the Loaa & Manseur team, the number 1 team at RE/MAX Platine in 2024 and 2025, 6th RE/MAX team in Quebec, 15th in Canada and in the global top 50 according to the official RE/MAX ranking. Tell us about your project.