Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0More adults feel healthy around Armagh: 59% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
A baby born in the region can expect 82.8 years, 84.4 for a girl and 81.3 for a boy (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 26 km from the average resident of Armagh, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Armagh is B+.
What stands out about health in Armagh
Far from a hospital
Residents of Armagh live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (25 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
From the average home in Armagh, a pharmacy is 15 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.7 out of 5, Armagh sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Armagh’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.
Armagh 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.
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.
The nearest hospital is 26 km from the average home in Armagh
Straight-line distances from each part of Armagh, weighted by who lives there.
Armagh is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 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
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.
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 5th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Armagh’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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 0.8 years
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Armagh’s region’s dot is above the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 2.7 at 82.0 years of life; Armagh’s region does better, at 82.8. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 9 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 81.4 years. The towns here bring in about $75,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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
Obesity tracks the province: 31% of adults here, 29% across Quebec. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 26% 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.
57% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (69% against 64%), while 18% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Armagh
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armagh | 26 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Raphaël 14 km | 22 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Damien-de-Buckland 14 km | 34 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud 17 km | 12 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse 19 km | 28 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
Same region, same survey: Armagh’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud is the closest to care, 12 km to Armagh’s 26 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Armagh itself is the trip to care.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Armagh
How far is Armagh from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.8 km from the average resident of Armagh and a pharmacy 15 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Armagh?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How is Armagh’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Armagh has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Armagh?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.4 for women, 81.3 for men around Armagh (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).