Health in Cacouna · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Cacouna’s health region reports 60% in very good or excellent health, ahead of the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Across the region, life runs to 81.7 years on average: women 83.1, men 80.3, in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Cacouna’s is long: 11 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Cacouna a grade of A−.
For 0% of homes in Cacouna the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 9.9 km. 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.
Health Grade
Cacouna 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.
Very good or excellent health (60%)Better than 91% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 64% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.7)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (11 km)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
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.
Getting care
From Cacouna, a hospital is 11 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Cacouna’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
11 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
8.6 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
9.3 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Cacouna that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.5 years
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Cacouna’s region’s dot is above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.2, Cacouna’s region would be expected to reach 80.2 years; it reaches 81.7. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 80.9 years. On income alone, around $63,000 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (9.4%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
24%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
9.4%
Obese (self-reported)
30%
Mood disorder
6.5%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
30%
Quebec
Obesity tracks the province: 30% of adults here, 29% across 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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
81.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.2
more years expected at 65
10th
longest of 18 regions in Quebec
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Région de Laval84.1
Région de Montréal83.4
Région de la Capitale-Nationale82.9
Région de l'Estrie82.9
Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches82.8
Région de la Montérégie82.5
Région des Laurentides82.2
Région de Lanaudière82.0
Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean81.8
Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent81.7
Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec81.6
Région de l'Outaouais80.7
Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine79.9
Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue79.5
Région de la Côte-Nord79.4
Région du Nord-du-Québec78.1
Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James76.8
Région du Nunavik65.2
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 10th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.3
Economic dependency3.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.3
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Cacouna’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
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
Health very good or excellent
58%
Health fair or poor
11%
Mental health very good or excellent
72%
Mental health fair or poor
4.1%
Most days quite a bit stressful
17%
Strong sense of belonging
68%
Satisfied with life
90%
Quebec
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 72% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 17% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Cacouna
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Same region, same survey: Cacouna’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Rivière-du-Loup is the closest to care, 1.8 km to Cacouna’s 11 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Cacouna shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
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What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
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Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
Questions about health in Cacouna
How healthy is Cacouna?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How is Cacouna’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Cacouna: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Cacouna from a hospital?
For everyday care, Cacouna’s residents are 9.3 km from a pharmacy and 8.6 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Cacouna?
Women in Cacouna’s region live to 83.1 on average and men to 80.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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