Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Health in Ascot Corner beats 94% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 57% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Quebec (57%). For Ascot Corner itself the measure is access, and it lags: 6.1 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Ascot Corner is A, #93 of 503 in Quebec and #337 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Ascot Corner
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 3.0 on the deprivation index typically live 81.0 years; Ascot Corner’s region, at 82.9, does better. For its deprivation ↓
Long-term conditions run low
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 19% of adults, diabetes for 9.1%. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Ascot Corner’s region sits 1.4 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.2 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 5.4 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 56% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Ascot Corner 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: #93 of 503 in Quebec and #337 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.
1.9 more years of life than regions as deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Ascot Corner’s region shows above the trend.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.0, Ascot Corner’s region would be expected to reach 81.0 years; it reaches 82.9. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 80.4 years in the middle. Its towns’ household income, about $67,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s correlation: 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (9.1%)
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: 29% report obesity, the province 29%.
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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 3rd of 18 in Quebec, where life expectancy runs from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Ascot Corner’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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 56% to 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
For 20% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 63% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Quebec’s 64%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The nearest hospital is 6.1 km from the average home in Ascot Corner
Straight-line distances from each part of Ascot Corner, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care Ascot Corner is ordinary: 5.3 km is the typical figure in Quebec, 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town.
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Ascot Corner is 25th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,672 to 3,782 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central ON B | 3,698 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 2 | Meadowgreen SK A− | 3,782 | 1.0 km | 49% |
| 3 | Eau Claire AB A+ | 3,733 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 23 | Cameron Heights AB B | 3,710 | 5.6 km | 51% |
| 24 | Westville NS D | 3,731 | 5.9 km | 42% |
| 25 | Ascot Corner QC A | 3,725 | 6.1 km | 57% |
| 26 | Baie-D'Urfé QC A− | 3,706 | 7.4 km | 54% |
| 27 | Electoral Area C, Nanaimo BC B− | 3,733 | 8.2 km | 47% |
| 40 | Cartier MB C | 3,739 | 30 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Ascot Corner
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascot Corner | 6.1 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Stoke 4.0 km | 7.7 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| East Angus 11 km | 16 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Cookshire-Eaton 12 km | 17 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Sherbrooke 12 km | 3.7 km | 57% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Westbury 12 km | 17 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Hatley 17 km | 9.8 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
Only the hospital column is local here: Ascot Corner and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Cookshire-Eaton is the furthest from care, 17 km to Ascot Corner’s 6.1 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Ascot Corner itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Ascot Corner
How healthy is Ascot Corner?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Ascot Corner?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Ascot Corner’s health region only: 84.8 years for women and 81.0 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Ascot Corner from a hospital?
Residents of Ascot Corner have a clinic 6.8 km away on average and a pharmacy 5.3 km away, in straight lines.
How is Ascot Corner’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Ascot Corner has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
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).