Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.059% of adults around Beaumont call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
People in the region live to 82.8 on average: 84.4 for women and 81.3 for men in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Beaumont’s is long: 13 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Beaumont a grade of A−, #380 of 503 in Quebec and #1,114 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Beaumont
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Beaumont live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (13 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs low
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Beaumont at 1.5 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the bottom band. The wider area ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Beaumont runs 1.3 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.0 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Beaumont 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: #380 of 503 in Quebec and #1,114 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.
From Beaumont, a hospital is 13 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Beaumont’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Beaumont is on the far side.
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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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 5th 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Beaumont’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
0.8 years above the line for regions this deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Beaumont’s, lies over the trend.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Beaumont’s region sits above it: 82.8 years where a score of 2.7 predicts 82.0. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 81.4 years in the middle. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $75,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.2%
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
At 31%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 29%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (26% against 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 57% 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
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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Beaumont comes 31st of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,136 to 3,242 people, median 5.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blakeley ON B+ | 3,151 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Cedar Hill ON A | 3,190 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 3 | St. Clair ON B+ | 3,201 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 29 | New Maryland NB C− | 3,198 | 13 km | 45% |
| 30 | Minburn County No. 27 AB C | 3,142 | 13 km | 52% |
| 31 | Beaumont QC A− | 3,188 | 13 km | 59% |
| 32 | Bishop's Falls NL C− | 3,162 | 15 km | 54% |
| 33 | Pincher Creek No. 9 AB C+ | 3,176 | 17 km | 52% |
| 40 | Saint-Alexis-des-Monts QC B | 3,190 | 28 km | 61% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Beaumont
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumont | 13 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans 4.3 km | 13 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse 8.0 km | 18 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse 8.1 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Sainte-Pétronille 9.5 km | 5.8 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans 9.5 km | 11 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| L'Ange-Gardien 13 km | 13 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 82.9 against 82.8 here. Sainte-Pétronille is the closest to care, 5.8 km to Beaumont’s 13 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Beaumont alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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 Beaumont
How healthy is Beaumont?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Beaumont from a hospital?
For everyday care, Beaumont’s residents are 1.5 km from a pharmacy and 7.2 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Beaumont?
There is no figure for Beaumont alone; its health region’s is 84.4 for women and 81.3 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Beaumont’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Beaumont 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).