Photo: GuyFromGaspésie2 · CC018% of adults smoke in the health region around Chandler, against 12% for the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%; Quebec as a whole is at 57%. Measured from where Chandler’s residents live, a hospital is 4.8 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. Health gives Chandler a grade of B−, #494 of 503 in Quebec and #2,067 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Chandler
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Chandler’s region beats what its deprivation score of 4.1 predicts: 79.9 years against 76.8. For its deprivation ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Life expectancy in the region around Chandler runs 1.6 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.4 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Chandler’s neighbourhoods average 4.8 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs high
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.7 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 53%. Health survey ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Chandler grades B− 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: #494 of 503 in Quebec and #2,067 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
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Chandler’s region comes out above the trend.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Chandler’s region sits above it: 79.9 years where a score of 4.1 predicts 76.8. It outlives 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 77.9 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.
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
This region is 13th longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale 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 Chandler’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.
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.
28% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 11% 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
At 37%, self-reported obesity is above 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.
From Chandler, a hospital is 4.8 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Chandler’s own, not the region’s.
For distance to care Chandler is ordinary: 5.3 km is the typical figure in Quebec, 3.7 km for 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.
Chandler is 29th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 7,190 to 7,447 people, median 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Currie Barracks AB A+ | 7,342 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 2 | Coronation Park SK B+ | 7,307 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 3 | Cathedral Village SK B+ | 7,311 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 27 | Cavanagh AB B | 7,300 | 4.5 km | 51% |
| 28 | Twin Lakes SK B | 7,286 | 4.7 km | 49% |
| 29 | Chandler QC B− | 7,323 | 4.8 km | 56% |
| 30 | Colborne ON B | 7,447 | 6.0 km | 53% |
| 31 | Brown's Corners ON A− | 7,228 | 6.2 km | 51% |
| 40 | Trent Lakes ON C− | 7,357 | 30 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Chandler
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chandler | 4.8 km | 56% | 79.9 | B− |
| Grande-Rivière 16 km | 13 km | 56% | 79.9 | C+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Chandler’s regional figures. Residents of Grande-Rivière live further from a hospital, at 13 km against 4.8 km in Chandler.
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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Chandler alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Chandler
How healthy is Chandler?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
What is the life expectancy in Chandler?
Women in Chandler’s region live to 81.6 on average and men to 78.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Chandler’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Chandler’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Chandler from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Chandler is 4.1 km from a clinic and 4.2 km from a pharmacy.
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).