Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.018% of adults smoke in the health region around Carleton-sur-Mer, against 12% for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 56% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Quebec (57%). For Carleton-sur-Mer itself the measure is access, and it lags: 13 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Carleton-sur-Mer grades C+ for health, #500 of 503 in Quebec and #2,187 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Carleton-sur-Mer
More years than its deprivation would give
Set against regions as deprived (4.1), Carleton-sur-Mer’s region gains years: 79.9 where the trend says 76.8. For its deprivation ↓
A long way to hospital
Residents of Carleton-sur-Mer live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (12 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Carleton-sur-Mer, a child can expect 1.6 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.4 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 4.7 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 53% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Carleton-sur-Mer 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.
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: #500 of 503 in Quebec and #2,187 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 3.1 years of life
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Carleton-sur-Mer’s lies above the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 4.1, the expected figure is 76.8 years, and Carleton-sur-Mer’s region does better with 79.9. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, 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 to hospital from Carleton-sur-Mer: 13 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Carleton-sur-Mer’s own, not the region’s.
From Carleton-sur-Mer that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
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
Ranked 13th 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Carleton-sur-Mer’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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 53% to 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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 68% very good or excellent to 64%; 12% 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.
High blood pressure for 28% of adults in the region, diabetes for 11%
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
More adults report obesity than across Quebec: 37%, 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.
Carleton-sur-Mer is 37th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,106 to 4,242 people, median 4.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claresholm AB A+ | 4,242 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 2 | La Pocatière QC A | 4,206 | 0.9 km | 60% |
| 3 | Sunalta AB A+ | 4,151 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 35 | Electoral Area B, Cariboo BC C− | 4,169 | 11 km | 39% |
| 36 | L'Ange-Gardien QC A+ | 4,106 | 13 km | 62% |
| 37 | Carleton-sur-Mer QC C+ | 4,175 | 13 km | 56% |
| 38 | West River PE B− | 4,155 | 15 km | 51% |
| 39 | Napierville QC A− | 4,187 | 19 km | 55% |
| 40 | Northern Lights County AB D− | 4,115 | 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 Carleton-sur-Mer
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Only the hospital column is local here: Carleton-sur-Mer and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Nouvelle is the furthest from care, 25 km to Carleton-sur-Mer’s 13 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Carleton-sur-Mer shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
Questions about health in Carleton-sur-Mer
How is Carleton-sur-Mer’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Carleton-sur-Mer: 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 Carleton-sur-Mer?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Carleton-sur-Mer from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Carleton-sur-Mer live: 2.0 km to a clinic, 3.8 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Carleton-sur-Mer?
There is no figure for Carleton-sur-Mer alone; its health region’s is 81.6 for women and 78.2 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).