Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Blainville is ahead of 96% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 60%, ahead of the 57% for Quebec. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Blainville’s is long: 4.9 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Blainville is A+, #66 of 503 in Quebec and #162 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Blainville
Self-rated health runs high
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 8.0 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 58%. Health survey ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 19% of adults, diabetes for 8.1%. Conditions and habits ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
With 6.3 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.0 km off, Blainville is well served for prescriptions. 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.
Blainville 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: #66 of 503 in Quebec and #162 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.
58% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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 reads like the rest of Quebec: 66% against 64%, and 20% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.1%
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 29%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 29%.
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 Blainville, a hospital is 4.9 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Blainville, weighted by who lives there.
Blainville is near the provincial norm, 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec, with 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.0 years more here
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Blainville’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.9, the expected figure is 81.2 years, and Blainville’s region does better with 82.2. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure is 80.9 years. The towns here bring in about $81,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 7th place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Blainville itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Among 40 towns its size, Blainville is 27th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (49,527 to 75,618 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Vancouver BC A+ | 66,624 | 1.1 km | 59% |
| 2 | Cornwall ON B− | 54,346 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 3 | Whalley BC A | 52,642 | 1.8 km | 50% |
| 25 | Shawinigan QC A | 51,739 | 4.5 km | 61% |
| 26 | Dollard-Des Ormeaux QC A | 50,246 | 4.5 km | 54% |
| 27 | Blainville QC A+ | 61,739 | 4.9 km | 60% |
| 28 | Quinte West ON C− | 50,385 | 5.5 km | 45% |
| 29 | Langford BC A+ | 59,664 | 6.3 km | 55% |
| 40 | Keswick ON B+ | 53,630 | 17 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Blainville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blainville | 4.9 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Sainte-Thérèse 3.8 km | 1.4 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Mirabel 5.7 km | 8.7 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Lorraine 6.4 km | 5.8 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Rosemère 6.6 km | 3.7 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Boisbriand 6.7 km | 2.7 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Bois-des-Filion 8.1 km | 7.1 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
Blainville and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Mirabel is the furthest from care, 8.7 km to Blainville’s 4.9 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Blainville shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Blainville
How healthy is Blainville?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 13%.
How is Blainville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Blainville’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Blainville?
For the health region that includes Blainville, women can expect 83.7 years and men 80.8 (2022/2024).
How far is Blainville from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Blainville is 1.4 km from a clinic and 1.0 km from a pharmacy.
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).