Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Health in Bromont beats 91% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Quebec: 57% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 57%. Measured from where Bromont’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 11 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Bromont is A, #191 of 503 in Quebec and #523 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bromont
Living past what deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.0, the trend across regions gives 81.0 years of life; Bromont’s region reaches 82.9. For its deprivation ↓
Less chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 19% report high blood pressure and 9.1% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
Distance is Bromont’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 12 km. Getting care ↓
A long-lived region
Born around Bromont, a child can expect 1.4 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Bromont 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: #191 of 503 in Quebec and #523 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.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 1.9 years of life
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Bromont’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Use the deprivation index alone and Bromont’s region, at 3.0, should live about 81.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.9. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (9 of 10, median 80.4 years). The towns here bring in about $67,000 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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.1%
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
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 29% report obesity, 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.
Getting to hospital from Bromont: 11 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Bromont’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, Bromont 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 3rd 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 Bromont’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
56% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Asked about their mental health, 63% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Quebec it was 64%, and 20% reported most days 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: Bromont comes 33rd of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 12,154 to 12,678 people, median 3.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DT Hospital ON A− | 12,384 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Yonge-Eglinton ON A | 12,424 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Woodbine Corridor ON A | 12,283 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 31 | Blackfalds AB C | 12,258 | 9.2 km | 52% |
| 32 | Orleans Village - Chateauneuf ON A | 12,399 | 9.9 km | 56% |
| 33 | Bromont QC A | 12,413 | 11 km | 57% |
| 34 | Saint-Hippolyte QC A | 12,550 | 12 km | 60% |
| 35 | Moncton NB C+ | 12,238 | 12 km | 43% |
| 40 | Lac Ste. Anne County AB D− | 12,639 | 25 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bromont
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bromont | 11 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Shefford 7.3 km | 10 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby 9.2 km | 11 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Granby 12 km | 2.6 km | 57% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Brigham 12 km | 8.3 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Waterloo 12 km | 17 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Cowansville 13 km | 1.6 km | 57% | 82.9 | A+ |
The neighbours all sit in Bromont’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Cowansville live nearer a hospital, at 1.6 km against 11 km in Bromont.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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 Bromont itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Bromont
How healthy is Bromont?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
How far is Bromont from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Bromont is 2.8 km from a clinic and 3.3 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Bromont?
Women in Bromont’s region live to 84.8 on average and men to 81.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Bromont’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Bromont’s homes are from a hospital, against 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).