Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 55% of adults in Carignan’s health region
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 82.5, with women at 84.2 and men at 80.8. For Carignan itself the measure is access, and it lags: 12 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Carignan is A−, #330 of 503 in Quebec and #971 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Carignan
A long way to hospital
Residents of Carignan live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (13 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 9.9%. Conditions and habits ↓
Deprivation runs low
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Carignan’s neighbourhoods average 1.6 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Carignan runs 1.0 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.5 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Carignan 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: #330 of 503 in Quebec and #971 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.
Getting to hospital from Carignan: 12 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Carignan’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Carignan travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.9%
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
At 32%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 6th of 18 in Quebec, where life expectancy runs from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Carignan’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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Carignan’s region shows close to the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Carignan’s region, at 2.7, should live about 82.1 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.5, near enough. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 7, with 81.4 years in the middle.
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: 54% 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
Mental health is no outlier: 64% say very good or excellent (Quebec: 64%) and 23% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Carignan is 37th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 12,343 to 12,899 people, median 3.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yonge-Bay Corridor ON A | 12,888 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | DT Hospital ON A− | 12,384 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 3 | Regent Park ON A | 12,797 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 35 | Bromont QC A | 12,413 | 11 km | 57% |
| 36 | Saint-Hippolyte QC A | 12,550 | 12 km | 60% |
| 37 | Carignan QC A− | 12,618 | 12 km | 55% |
| 38 | Rothesay NB C− | 12,626 | 13 km | 43% |
| 39 | Wellesley ON B+ | 12,413 | 19 km | 53% |
| 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 Carignan
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carignan | 12 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Chambly 2.6 km | 12 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Bienville 4.6 km | 9.0 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu 6.5 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Richelieu 6.8 km | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Laurendeau 8.1 km | 5.9 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Iberville 8.4 km | 4.9 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Carignan’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Iberville live nearer a hospital, at 4.9 km against 12 km in Carignan.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Carignan alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Carignan
How is Carignan’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 Carignan’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Carignan from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Carignan live: 3.3 km to a clinic, 2.3 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Carignan?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Carignan?
There is no figure for Carignan alone; its health region’s is 84.2 for women and 80.8 for men in 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).