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Photo: Unknown Unknown · Public domainVery good or excellent health for 61% of adults around Champlain; the typical Canadian town: 52%
People in the region live to 81.6 on average: 83.3 for women and 79.9 for men in 2022/2024. What sets Champlain apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 13 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Champlain grades A− for health.
What stands out about health in Champlain
Far from a hospital
Distance is Champlain’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 12 km. Getting care ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
Regions scoring 3.2 on the deprivation index typically live 80.0 years; Champlain’s region, at 81.6, does better. For its deprivation ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Champlain 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.
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 Champlain: 13 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Champlain’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Champlain 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.6 years more here
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Champlain’s region comes out above the trend.
At 3.2 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 80.0 years, and the region Champlain belongs to reaches 81.6. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (7 of 10, median 80.5 years). The towns here bring in about $62,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 34% of adults against 29% for Quebec. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 25% to 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.
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 11th of the 18.
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 Champlain’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.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 59% 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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 68% very good or excellent to 64%; 20% 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.
Health in the places around Champlain
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champlain | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Maurice 12 km | 11 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Batiscan 12 km | 18 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan 12 km | 23 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets 15 km | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Bécancour 15 km | 9.7 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Narcisse 16 km | 20 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Champlain’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan live further from a hospital, at 23 km against 13 km in Champlain.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Champlain itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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 Champlain
How healthy is Champlain?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Champlain’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 Champlain’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Champlain from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Champlain live: 8.0 km to a clinic, 13 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Champlain?
Women in Champlain’s region live to 83.3 on average and men to 79.9, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).