Health in Albanel · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
More adults feel healthy around Albanel: 66% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
Women in the region live to 83.2 and men to 80.4, 81.8 years taken together (2022/2024). What sets Albanel apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 11 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Albanel grades A for health.
Quebec: 57% · Shared with the rest of the Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
15%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Residents of Albanel live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (13 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
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
Albanel 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 (66%)Better than almost every Canadian town
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 67% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 89% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.8)Better than 72% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (11 km)Better than 53% 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
From Albanel, a hospital is 11 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Albanel, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
11 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
4.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
12 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
From Albanel that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
1.4 years above the line for regions this deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Albanel’s, lies over the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Albanel’s region, at 3.1, should live about 80.4 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.8. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 80.6 years. Judged by income, around $69,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9%
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
21%
Arthritis
26%
Diabetes
9%
Obese (self-reported)
30%
Mood disorder
8.1%
Anxiety disorder
10%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
11%
Smoke every day
7.9%
Heavy drinking
29%
Flu shot in the past year
37%
Quebec
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 30% of adults against 29% for Quebec. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 29% to 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.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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.
81.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.6
more years expected at 65
9th
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 9th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.2
Economic dependency3.4
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.2
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Albanel’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
64% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Quebec (56%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
64%
Health fair or poor
9.4%
Mental health very good or excellent
72%
Mental health fair or poor
5.2%
Most days quite a bit stressful
14%
Strong sense of belonging
69%
Satisfied with life
92%
Quebec
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 72% very good or excellent to 64%, with 14% facing 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 Albanel
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Albanel and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Girardville live further from a hospital, at 26 km against 11 km in Albanel.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Albanel shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
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Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
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Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
Questions about health in Albanel
How healthy is Albanel?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How is Albanel’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Albanel’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Albanel from a hospital?
For everyday care, Albanel’s residents are 12 km from a pharmacy and 4.1 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Albanel?
Women in Albanel’s region live to 83.2 on average and men to 80.4, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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