Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0More adults feel healthy around Adstock: 59% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
Life expectancy in the region is 82.8 years (84.4 for women, 81.3 for men, 2022/2024). What sets Adstock apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 12 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Adstock a grade of A−, #373 of 503 in Quebec and #1,085 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Adstock
Far from a hospital
Distance is Adstock’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 16 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Adstock’s region sits 1.3 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Adstock grades A− for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
The region’s four figures and the town’s distance to a hospital are each ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, then averaged. Its place: #373 of 503 in Quebec and #1,085 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
How the grade works
Health is graded as a regional score, labelled as such: very good or excellent self-rated health, chronic conditions (arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure averaged) and smoking from the Canadian Community Health Survey, each age-standardised so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, and life expectancy at birth, all for the health region. The residents’ average distance to a hospital is the one input measured for the town itself, so towns in one region can still differ.
From Adstock, a hospital is 12 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Adstock’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Adstock travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Ranked 5th of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Adstock’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
0.8 more years of life than regions as deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Adstock’s dot is marked, above the line.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 2.7, Adstock’s region would be expected to reach 82.0 years; it reaches 82.8. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (9 of 10, median 81.4 years). Modest pay, about $75,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (0.14).
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, 2022/2024, by health region. Deprivation: Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021 (situational vulnerability), averaged over each region’s towns by their residents; income: 2021 Census median household income, averaged the same way. The averages and the line are TownRatings calculations.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.2% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 31% report obesity, the province 29%. At 26%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 22%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight. The anxiety disorder figure is the 2021/2022 estimate: Statistics Canada found the latest too unreliable to publish here.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 57% and 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 69% very good or excellent to 64%; 18% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Adstock comes 28th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,151 to 3,255 people, median 5.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blakeley ON B+ | 3,151 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Cedar Hill ON A | 3,190 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 3 | St. Clair ON B+ | 3,201 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 26 | Val-Morin QC A | 3,226 | 9.8 km | 60% |
| 27 | Coalhurst AB B− | 3,244 | 9.8 km | 52% |
| 28 | Adstock QC A− | 3,203 | 12 km | 59% |
| 29 | North Cypress-Langford MB C | 3,234 | 13 km | 51% |
| 30 | New Maryland NB C− | 3,198 | 13 km | 45% |
| 40 | Saint-Alexis-des-Monts QC B | 3,190 | 28 km | 61% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Adstock
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adstock | 12 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce 12 km | 20 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| La Guadeloupe 15 km | 25 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Thetford Mines 17 km | 3.7 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
| Saint-Victor 19 km | 11 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
Same region, same survey: Adstock’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. La Guadeloupe is the furthest from care, 25 km to Adstock’s 12 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Adstock itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
Questions about health in Adstock
How is Adstock’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Adstock has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Adstock?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How far is Adstock from a hospital?
For everyday care, Adstock’s residents are 11 km from a pharmacy and 5.6 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Adstock?
For the health region that includes Adstock, women can expect 84.4 years and men 81.3 (2022/2024).
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).