Photo: Nichole Ouellette · CC BY-SA 4.0More adults feel healthy around Batiscan: 61% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
Lives in the region last 81.6 years on average (2022/2024): 83.3 for women, 79.9 for men. What sets Batiscan apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 18 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Batiscan a grade of B+.
What stands out about health in Batiscan
A long way to hospital
Distance is Batiscan’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 17 km. Getting care ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (3.2), Batiscan’s region gains years: 81.6 where the trend says 80.0. For its deprivation ↓
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Batiscan 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.
From Batiscan, a hospital is 18 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Batiscan, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Batiscan travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.6 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Batiscan’s, lies over the trend.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.2 on the index, the line expects 80.0 years; Batiscan’s region reaches 81.6. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 7 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 80.5 years. Modest pay, about $62,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% 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 runs higher than in the province, at 34% of adults against 29% for Quebec. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 25% 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.
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 11th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Batiscan’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 beats Quebec: 59% very good or excellent, against 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 68% very good or excellent to 64%; 20% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Batiscan
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batiscan | 18 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets 3.3 km | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade 10 km | 16 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan 11 km | 23 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Champlain 12 km | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Stanislas 17 km | 27 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Narcisse 19 km | 20 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Batiscan’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Saint-Stanislas live further from a hospital, at 27 km against 18 km in Batiscan.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Batiscan shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
Questions about health in Batiscan
How healthy is Batiscan?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Batiscan’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Batiscan’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Batiscan from a hospital?
A clinic is 8.2 km from the average resident of Batiscan and a pharmacy 9.4 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Batiscan?
For the health region that includes Batiscan, women can expect 83.3 years and men 79.9 (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).