Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Berthier-sur-Mer, 59% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 82.8 years at birth, 84.4 for women and 81.3 for men. What sets Berthier-sur-Mer apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 8.5 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Berthier-sur-Mer grades A− for health.
What stands out about health in Berthier-sur-Mer
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Berthier-sur-Mer 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 ↓
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.
Berthier-sur-Mer 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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 5th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Berthier-sur-Mer’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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 0.8 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Berthier-sur-Mer’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Berthier-sur-Mer’s region sits above it: 82.8 years where a score of 2.7 predicts 82.0. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (9 of 10), with a median of 81.4. On income alone, around $75,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.2%
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 31%, the province 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.
Getting to hospital from Berthier-sur-Mer: 8.5 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Berthier-sur-Mer’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Berthier-sur-Mer 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 57% 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 beats Quebec as well: 69% very good or excellent to 64%, with 18% facing 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 Berthier-sur-Mer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berthier-sur-Mer | 8.5 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud 7.0 km | 12 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Vallier 9.2 km | 17 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Montmagny 13 km | 2.4 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
| Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans 14 km | 14 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Raphaël 15 km | 22 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse 17 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans’s life expectancy is 82.9, this region’s 82.8. Residents of Saint-Raphaël live further from a hospital, at 22 km against 8.5 km in Berthier-sur-Mer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Berthier-sur-Mer shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Berthier-sur-Mer
How healthy is Berthier-sur-Mer?
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 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Berthier-sur-Mer?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Berthier-sur-Mer’s health region only: 84.4 years for women and 81.3 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Berthier-sur-Mer from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Berthier-sur-Mer live: 1.5 km to a clinic, 13 km to a pharmacy.
How is Berthier-sur-Mer’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Berthier-sur-Mer: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with 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).