Health in Caplan · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
More smokers around Caplan: 18% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 12%
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%; Quebec as a whole is at 57%. Closer to home, a hospital is 24 km from the average resident of Caplan, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Caplan a grade of C.
Quebec: 57% · Shared with the rest of the Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Deprivation alone, a score of 4.1, would put Caplan’s region near 76.8 years; it reaches 79.9. For its deprivation ↓
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Caplan the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 24 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Caplan 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.
Health Grade
Caplan 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.
Very good or excellent health (56%)Better than 76% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 47% of Canadian towns
Smokers (18%)Better than 7% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.9)Better than 39% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (24 km)Better than 18% 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.
For its deprivation
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 3.1 years more here
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Caplan’s region comes out above the trend.
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 4.1, Caplan’s region would be expected to reach 76.8 years; it reaches 79.9. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (9 of 10), with 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.
Getting care
From Caplan, a hospital is 24 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Caplan, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
24 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.4 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
13 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
Caplan is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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.
79.9
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.4
more years expected at 65
13th
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 13th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.7
Economic dependency4.7
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.4
This is the one part of the block measured for Caplan 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.
Health survey
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 53% 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
Health very good or excellent
53%
Health fair or poor
15%
Mental health very good or excellent
68%
Mental health fair or poor
8.3%
Most days quite a bit stressful
12%
Strong sense of belonging
80%
Satisfied with life
91%
Quebec
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 68% very good or excellent to 64%, with 12% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (28%) and diabetes (11%)
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
28%
Arthritis
30%
Diabetes
11%
Obese (self-reported)
37%
Mood disorder
7.9%
Anxiety disorder
10%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
18%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
21%
Flu shot in the past year
32%
Quebec
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 37% 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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Caplan
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
One health region covers Caplan and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. New Richmond is the closest to care, 11 km to Caplan’s 24 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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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: Caplan shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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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.
Questions about health in Caplan
How far is Caplan from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Caplan live: 2.4 km to a clinic, 13 km to a pharmacy.
How is Caplan’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Caplan: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Caplan?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Caplan?
There is no figure for Caplan alone; its health region’s is 81.6 for women and 78.2 for men in 2022/2024.
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