Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Beaconsfield scores better for health than 89% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 54% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Quebec as a whole reaches 57%. For Beaconsfield itself the measure is access: 3.3 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Beaconsfield grades A for health, #251 of 503 in Quebec and #709 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Beaconsfield
Ahead of regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (3.0), Beaconsfield’s region gains years: 83.4 where the trend says 80.8. For its deprivation ↓
A long-lived region
Beaconsfield’s region sits 1.9 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.6 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (15%) and diabetes (7.3%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Beaconsfield has 5.0 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.0 km away. Getting care ↓
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.
Beaconsfield 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: #251 of 503 in Quebec and #709 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 2.6 years more here
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Beaconsfield’s dot is marked, above the line.
At 3.0 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 80.8 years, and the region Beaconsfield belongs to reaches 83.4. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 80.2. Judged by income, around $68,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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.
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 2nd of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Beaconsfield’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
15% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.3% 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
Self-reported obesity, 23%, trails Quebec (29%). Fewer adults drink heavily, 19% to the province’s 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.
The nearest hospital is 3.3 km from the average home in Beaconsfield
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Beaconsfield’s own, not the region’s.
Beaconsfield is closer in 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 55% to 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 looks weaker than in the province: 58% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 23% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Beaconsfield comes 24th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 18,922 to 19,963 people, median 2.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granville Entertainment District BC A+ | 19,125 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 2 | North End NS B+ | 19,733 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Central London ON A− | 19,363 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 22 | Kirkland QC A | 19,696 | 2.8 km | 54% |
| 23 | Medway ON A− | 18,922 | 2.8 km | 52% |
| 24 | Beaconsfield QC A | 19,430 | 3.3 km | 54% |
| 25 | Westmount ON B+ | 19,591 | 3.6 km | 52% |
| 26 | Greensborough ON A | 19,270 | 3.8 km | 51% |
| 40 | Mont-Saint-Hilaire QC A− | 19,447 | 19 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Beaconsfield
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaconsfield | 3.3 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Kirkland 2.0 km | 2.8 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Pierrefonds-Ouest 3.8 km | 4.3 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Baie-D'Urfé 4.1 km | 7.4 km | 54% | 83.4 | A− |
| Pointe-Claire 4.9 km | 2.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue 6.8 km | 9.2 km | 54% | 83.4 | A− |
| L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève 6.9 km | 6.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Beaconsfield from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Residents of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue live further from a hospital, at 9.2 km against 3.3 km in Beaconsfield.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Beaconsfield 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. 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
Questions about health in Beaconsfield
What is the life expectancy in Beaconsfield?
There is no figure for Beaconsfield alone; its health region’s is 85.5 for women and 81.2 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Beaconsfield?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
How is Beaconsfield’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Beaconsfield’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Beaconsfield from a hospital?
Residents of Beaconsfield have a clinic 2.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.0 km away, in straight lines.
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).