Photo: Harfang · CC BY-SA 3.018% of adults smoke in the health region around Bonaventure, against 12% for the typical Canadian town
Self-rated health is ordinary for Quebec: 56% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 57%. Measured from where Bonaventure’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 17 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Bonaventure is C, #2,234 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bonaventure
More years than its deprivation would give
Deprivation alone, a score of 4.1, would put Bonaventure’s region near 76.8 years; it reaches 79.9. For its deprivation ↓
A long way to hospital
Distance is Bonaventure’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 17 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Bonaventure runs 1.6 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.4 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 4.7 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (53% as answered). Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Bonaventure grades C 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: #2,234 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.
3.1 years above the line for regions this deprived
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Bonaventure’s region is above the line.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Bonaventure’s region sits above it: 79.9 years where a score of 4.1 predicts 76.8. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, a median of 77.9.
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.
From Bonaventure, a hospital is 17 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Bonaventure’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, Bonaventure 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.
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
Ranked 13th of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Bonaventure’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
53% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Quebec (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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 68% very good or excellent to 64%; 12% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
28% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 11% 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
More adults report obesity than across Quebec: 37%, the province 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.
Bonaventure is 30th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,683 to 2,758 people, median 8.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waterridge Village ON A+ | 2,737 | 0.6 km | 56% |
| 2 | Sundre AB C+ | 2,683 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Lee Ridge AB B+ | 2,722 | 1.2 km | 51% |
| 28 | Saint-Alexandre QC A− | 2,685 | 16 km | 55% |
| 29 | Saint-Martin QC B+ | 2,687 | 17 km | 59% |
| 30 | Bonaventure QC C | 2,719 | 17 km | 56% |
| 31 | Victoria County, Subdivision A NS D | 2,746 | 18 km | 49% |
| 32 | Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse QC B+ | 2,739 | 18 km | 59% |
| 40 | Waskaganish QC | 2,726 | 132 km | – |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bonaventure
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonaventure | 17 km | 56% | 79.9 | C |
| Saint-Siméon 8.2 km | 25 km | 56% | 79.9 | C |
| New Carlisle 11 km | 8.1 km | 56% | 79.9 | C+ |
| Paspébiac 16 km | 2.4 km | 56% | 79.9 | B− |
| Caplan 16 km | 24 km | 56% | 79.9 | C |
Only the hospital column is local here: Bonaventure and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Paspébiac live nearer a hospital, at 2.4 km against 17 km in Bonaventure.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Bonaventure alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
Questions about health in Bonaventure
How is Bonaventure’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Bonaventure’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Bonaventure from a hospital?
Residents of Bonaventure have a clinic 2.1 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.9 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Bonaventure?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Bonaventure?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.6 for women, 78.2 for men around Bonaventure (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).