Photo: Ptaff · CC0Around Brébeuf, 60% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
A baby born in the region can expect 82.2 years, 83.7 for a girl and 80.8 for a boy (2022/2024). What sets Brébeuf apart within its region is distance: 30 km to a hospital on average, over 30 km for 55% of residents. Health gives Brébeuf a grade of A−.
What stands out about health in Brébeuf
A long way to hospital
Distance is Brébeuf’s own health question: 55% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 31 km. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Brébeuf’s neighbourhoods average 4.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (8.1%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. 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.
Brébeuf 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.
From Brébeuf, a hospital is 30 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Brébeuf’s own, not the region’s.
Brébeuf is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than 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.
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 29% of adults against 29% for Quebec.
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.
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 7th 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Brébeuf’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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.0 years
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Brébeuf’s lies above the line.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 2.9, Brébeuf’s region would be expected to reach 81.2 years; it reaches 82.2. Of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, not one does as well; half fall below 80.9. Judged by income, around $81,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 58% to 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region tracks Quebec, 66% very good or excellent to 64%; 20% 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.
Health in the places around Brébeuf
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brébeuf | 30 km | 60% | 82.2 | A− |
| La Conception 8.2 km | 32 km | 60% | 82.2 | A− |
| Mont-Tremblant 8.7 km | 25 km | 60% | 82.2 | A− |
| Amherst 11 km | 39 km | 60% | 82.2 | A− |
| Saint-Faustin--Lac-Carré 17 km | 16 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
Same region, same survey: Brébeuf’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Brébeuf itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Brébeuf
How far is Brébeuf from a hospital?
For everyday care, Brébeuf’s residents are 7.4 km from a pharmacy and 7.4 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Brébeuf?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 13%.
How is Brébeuf’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Brébeuf’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Brébeuf?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.7 for women, 80.8 for men around Brébeuf (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).