Photo: Minoumi · Public domainVery good or excellent health for 55% of adults in Chambly’s health region
People in the region live to 82.5 on average: 84.2 for women and 80.8 for men in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Chambly’s is long: 12 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Chambly is A−, #320 of 503 in Quebec and #943 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Chambly
A long way to hospital
Distance is Chambly’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 11 km. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Chambly 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.
Chambly 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: #320 of 503 in Quebec and #943 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.
The nearest hospital is 12 km from the average home in Chambly
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Chambly’s own, not the region’s.
From Chambly 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.
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 32%, 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 6th.
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 Chambly’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Chambly’s region shows close to the trend.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Chambly’s region is a typical case: 82.5 years at a score of 2.7, where the trend says 82.1. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 7 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 81.4 years.
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Chambly is 37th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 30,139 to 33,823 people, median 2.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verdun-Centre QC A | 30,304 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Centretown ON A+ | 32,035 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 3 | Sainte-Marie QC A | 33,699 | 0.7 km | 54% |
| 35 | Des Explorateurs QC B | 31,128 | 8.3 km | 55% |
| 36 | Sainte-Julie QC A− | 30,981 | 11 km | 55% |
| 37 | Chambly QC A− | 31,870 | 12 km | 55% |
| 38 | Chestermere AB A | 31,671 | 12 km | 56% |
| 39 | Elmira ON A− | 31,382 | 12 km | 53% |
| 40 | Rockland ON C | 30,375 | 15 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Chambly
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chambly | 12 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Carignan 2.6 km | 12 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Richelieu 4.3 km | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu 5.5 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Bienville 7.1 km | 9.0 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Basile-le-Grand 9.3 km | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Marieville 10 km | 14 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
The neighbours all sit in Chambly’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Chambly itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
Questions about health in Chambly
How is Chambly’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Chambly: 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 Chambly from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Chambly live: 1.7 km to a clinic, 0.8 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Chambly?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Chambly?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.2 for women, 80.8 for men around Chambly (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).