Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Chertsey sits a long way from hospital care: 30 km for the average resident
Across the region, 56% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Quebec (57%). A pharmacy is nearer: 5.7 km on average, with 0.4 within 3 km of the typical home. The Health grade for Chertsey is B, #480 of 503 in Quebec and #1,890 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Chertsey
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Chertsey’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.1 predicts: 82.0 years against 80.3. For its deprivation ↓
Self-rated health runs high
Even once age is allowed for, 4.6 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (55% as answered). Health survey ↓
More households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Chertsey’s neighbourhoods average 4.2 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
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.
Chertsey 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: #480 of 503 in Quebec and #1,890 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.
1.7 years above the line for regions this deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Chertsey’s, lies over the trend.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Chertsey’s region beats it: 82.0 years against the 80.3 the trend gives a score of 3.1. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, none lives longer; the middle of the group is 80.9 years. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $81,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
55% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (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 20% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.2%
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
Self-reported obesity, 33%, tops Quebec (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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Quebec, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Ranked 8th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Chertsey’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Everyday care in Chertsey: the nearest pharmacy 5.7 km away, 0.4 within 3 km
Straight-line distances from each part of Chertsey, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Chertsey 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.
Chertsey is 40th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,595 to 5,764 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meadow Lake SK C | 5,667 | 0.6 km | 46% |
| 2 | Vieux-Québec—Cap-Blanc—Colline parlementaire QC A+ | 5,764 | 0.7 km | 62% |
| 3 | Montcalm MB B+ | 5,676 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 38 | Havelock ON C− | 5,663 | 20 km | 47% |
| 39 | Shediac NB C | 5,699 | 22 km | 43% |
| 40 | Chertsey QC B | 5,678 | 30 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Chertsey
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chertsey | 30 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Entrelacs 9.0 km | 23 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Rawdon 13 km | 21 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson 14 km | 17 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Saint-Calixte 15 km | 21 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez 17 km | 24 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Julienne 19 km | 21 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
Across a regional line, Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson has its own figures: life expectancy 82.2, against 82.0 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Chertsey alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Chertsey
How far is Chertsey from a hospital?
For everyday care, Chertsey’s residents are 5.7 km from a pharmacy and 5.5 km from a clinic on average.
How is Chertsey’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Chertsey’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Chertsey?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Chertsey?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.7 for women, 80.3 for men around Chertsey (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).