Health in Chambord · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Chambord’s health region reports 66% in very good or excellent health, ahead of the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Across the region, life runs to 81.8 years on average: women 83.2, men 80.4, in 2022/2024. Measured from where Chambord’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 12 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Chambord grades A for health.
Quebec: 57% · Shared with the rest of the Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
15%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
For 0% of homes in Chambord the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 13 km. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Chambord takes a trip of 15 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Chambord 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 (66%)Better than almost every Canadian town
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 67% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 89% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.8)Better than 72% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (12 km)Better than 49% 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
The nearest hospital is 12 km from the average home in Chambord
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Chambord’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
12 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
15 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
Chambord is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.4 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Chambord’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Chambord’s region, at 3.1, outlives the trend’s 80.4 years with 81.8. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 80.6 years in the middle. Modest pay, about $69,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
21%
Arthritis
26%
Diabetes
9%
Obese (self-reported)
30%
Mood disorder
8.1%
Anxiety disorder
10%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
11%
Smoke every day
7.9%
Heavy drinking
29%
Flu shot in the past year
37%
Quebec
At 30%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 29%. More adults drink heavily, 29% to the province’s 22%.
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
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.
81.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.6
more years expected at 65
9th
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
The region comes 9th 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
Residential instability3.5
Economic dependency4.4
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.3
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Chambord’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 64% very good or excellent, against 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
Health very good or excellent
64%
Health fair or poor
9.4%
Mental health very good or excellent
72%
Mental health fair or poor
5.2%
Most days quite a bit stressful
14%
Strong sense of belonging
69%
Satisfied with life
92%
Quebec
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 72% very good or excellent to 64%, with 14% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Chambord
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: Chambord and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Roberval live nearer a hospital, at 1.7 km against 12 km in Chambord.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
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Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Chambord’s own.
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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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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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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.
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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.
Questions about health in Chambord
How healthy is Chambord?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Chambord’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Chambord’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Chambord from a hospital?
Residents of Chambord have a clinic 2.1 km away on average and a pharmacy 15 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Chambord?
For the health region that includes Chambord, women can expect 83.2 years and men 80.4 (2022/2024).
Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0