Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Amos’ region trails the typical Canadian town by 2.0 years: life expectancy 79.5
In the health survey, 57% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec’s 57%. For Amos itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.2 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Amos a grade of B, #463 of 503 in Quebec and #1,757 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Amos
A region that smokes more
Around Amos, 14% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
More people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 5.7 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 56%. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Amos grades B 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: #463 of 503 in Quebec and #1,757 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.8% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 37% 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 56% and 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
Mental health is no outlier: 65% say very good or excellent (Quebec: 64%) and 18% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Amos’ region comes out on the trend.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Amos’ region fits it, 79.5 years at 3.5 against the line’s 79.0. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 78.7 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.
Getting to hospital from Amos: 2.2 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Amos’ own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Amos is on the near side.
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 14th.
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 Amos’ 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Amos is 16th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 12,522 to 13,051 people, median 3.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yonge-Bay Corridor ON A | 12,888 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | Regent Park ON A | 12,797 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Downtown AB B+ | 12,880 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 14 | Windsor Park NS B+ | 13,044 | 1.9 km | 51% |
| 15 | Grenet QC A | 12,580 | 2.1 km | 54% |
| 16 | Amos QC B | 12,773 | 2.2 km | 57% |
| 17 | Highland Creek ON A | 12,678 | 2.8 km | 50% |
| 18 | Chaparral AB A+ | 12,522 | 2.9 km | 56% |
| 40 | Lac Ste. Anne County AB D− | 12,639 | 25 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Amos
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amos | 2.2 km | 57% | 79.5 | B |
| Saint-Félix-de-Dalquier 10 km | 11 km | 57% | 79.5 | B− |
| Trécesson 12 km | 12 km | 57% | 79.5 | B− |
One health region covers Amos and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Trécesson live further from a hospital, at 12 km against 2.2 km in Amos.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Amos alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Amos
How is Amos’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Amos has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Amos?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Amos?
Women in Amos’ region live to 81.6 on average and men to 77.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Amos from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.9 km from the average resident of Amos and a pharmacy 1.8 km, as the crow flies.
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).