Photo: Jean-Philippe Boulet · CC BY 3.0Austin scores better for health than 92% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 57% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec’s 57%. What sets Austin apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 10 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Austin is A.
What stands out about health in Austin
Ahead of regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.0, would put Austin’s region near 81.0 years; it reaches 82.9. For its deprivation ↓
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (9.1%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Austin’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 9.0 km. Getting care ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Austin, a child can expect 1.4 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Austin 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.
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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.9 years more here
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Austin’s region is above the line.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Austin’s region, at 3.0, outlives the trend’s 81.0 years with 82.9. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 9 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 80.4 years. Households here earn around $67,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (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
Obesity tracks the province: 29% of adults here, 29% across 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.
Getting to hospital from Austin: 10 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Austin’s own, not the region’s.
Austin 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.
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
This region is 3rd longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Austin’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 56% and 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
The region’s 63% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Quebec’s 64%, with 20% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Austin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin | 10 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Eastman 5.4 km | 14 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Magog 8.7 km | 2.6 km | 57% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Bolton-Est 9.1 km | 16 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Orford 9.8 km | 9.2 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Stukely-Sud 13 km | 22 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Stanstead 18 km | 17 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
One health region covers Austin and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Stukely-Sud live further from a hospital, at 22 km against 10 km in Austin.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. Only the distances on this page belong to Austin alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Austin
How is Austin’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Austin has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Austin?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Austin?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Austin’s health region only: 84.8 years for women and 81.0 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Austin from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Austin live: 10 km to a clinic, 7.7 km to a pharmacy.
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).