Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Bécancour’s health region reports 61% in very good or excellent health, ahead of the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.6, women 83.3 and men 79.9 (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Bécancour’s is long: 9.7 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Bécancour is A−, #351 of 503 in Quebec and #1,021 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bécancour
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.2, the trend across regions gives 80.0 years of life; Bécancour’s region reaches 81.6. For its deprivation ↓
A long way to hospital
Residents of Bécancour live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (8.0 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 21% report high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Bécancour 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: #351 of 503 in Quebec and #1,021 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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 1.6 years ahead of the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Bécancour’s region shows above the trend.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Bécancour’s region beats it: 81.6 years against the 80.0 the trend gives a score of 3.2. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 7 of 10; their median is 80.5 years. Its towns’ household income, about $62,000, 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 (21%) and diabetes (8.2%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 34%, tops Quebec (29%). More adults drink heavily, 25% 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.
From Bécancour, a hospital is 9.7 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Bécancour’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, Bécancour 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.
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
The region comes 11th 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Bécancour’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.
59% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Quebec (56%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 68% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 20% 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: Bécancour comes 35th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 14,684 to 15,220 people, median 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Louis QC A | 14,824 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Roncesvalles ON A | 14,725 | 0.8 km | 50% |
| 3 | South London ON A− | 14,684 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 33 | Windermere AB B | 14,922 | 8.2 km | 51% |
| 34 | Rockwood ON B | 14,870 | 9.5 km | 51% |
| 35 | Bécancour QC A− | 14,943 | 9.7 km | 61% |
| 36 | Pincourt QC A− | 15,220 | 14 km | 55% |
| 37 | Mountain View County AB A | 14,802 | 15 km | 56% |
| 40 | Whistler BC A | 15,090 | 48 km | 59% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bécancour
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bécancour | 9.7 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Trois-Rivières 12 km | 3.5 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Nicolet 14 km | 2.3 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Champlain 15 km | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Maurice 18 km | 11 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Wenceslas 19 km | 25 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
Every place around Bécancour shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Saint-Wenceslas is the furthest from care, 25 km to Bécancour’s 9.7 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Bécancour’s own.
Questions about health in Bécancour
How healthy is Bécancour?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
How is Bécancour’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Bécancour has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Bécancour from a hospital?
For everyday care, Bécancour’s residents are 7.0 km from a pharmacy and 5.3 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Bécancour?
For the health region that includes Bécancour, 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).