Health in Akwesasne · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 55% of adults in Akwesasne’s health region
Lives in the region last 82.5 years on average (2022/2024): 84.2 for women, 80.8 for men. For Akwesasne itself the measure is access, and it lags: 12 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Akwesasne is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Akwesasne itself. Health gives Akwesasne a grade of A−.
For 0% of homes in Akwesasne the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 13 km. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 21% report high blood pressure and 9.9% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Akwesasne, a child can expect 1.0 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.5 (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.
Health Grade
Akwesasne 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.
Very good or excellent health (55%)Better than 69% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 76% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 85% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (82.5)Better than 82% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (12 km)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
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.
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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Akwesasne: 12 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Akwesasne, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
12 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
7.9 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
9.0 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Akwesasne is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.9% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
21%
Arthritis
18%
Diabetes
9.9%
Obese (self-reported)
32%
Mood disorder
11%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
11%
Smoke every day
8.2%
Heavy drinking
22%
Flu shot in the past year
29%
Quebec
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 32% of adults against 29% for Quebec.
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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Quebec, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
82.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.5
more years expected at 65
6th
longest of 18 regions in Quebec
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Région de Laval84.1
Région de Montréal83.4
Région de la Capitale-Nationale82.9
Région de l'Estrie82.9
Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches82.8
Région de la Montérégie82.5
Région des Laurentides82.2
Région de Lanaudière82.0
Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean81.8
Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent81.7
Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec81.6
Région de l'Outaouais80.7
Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine79.9
Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue79.5
Région de la Côte-Nord79.4
Région du Nord-du-Québec78.1
Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James76.8
Région du Nunavik65.2
The region comes 6th of 18 in Quebec, where life expectancy runs from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Akwesasne’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.7 about 82.1 years; Akwesasne’s region’s 82.5 is within a year of it. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 7 of 10; their median is 81.4 years.
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.
Health survey
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (56%)
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
54%
Health fair or poor
12%
Mental health very good or excellent
64%
Mental health fair or poor
9%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
53%
Satisfied with life
88%
Quebec
Mental health is no outlier: 64% say very good or excellent (Quebec: 64%) and 23% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Akwesasne
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
South GlengarryAkwesasne (Part) 59CornwallAkwesasne
South Glengarry falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 81.0 against 82.5 here. Residents of Cornwall live nearer a hospital, at 1.5 km against 12 km in Akwesasne.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
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Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Akwesasne’s own.
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Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
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Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
Questions about health in Akwesasne
How far is Akwesasne from a hospital?
A clinic is 7.9 km from the average resident of Akwesasne and a pharmacy 9.0 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Akwesasne?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Akwesasne?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.2 for women, 80.8 for men around Akwesasne (2022/2024).
How is Akwesasne’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Akwesasne has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town. Being a First Nations reserve, it has no overall grade or ranking, and its regional survey figures come from people living off reserve.