Photo: Providence Doucet providence · CC056% of adults around Crabtree rate their health very good or excellent
Lives in the region last 82.0 years on average (2022/2024): 83.7 for women, 80.3 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Crabtree’s is long: 6.6 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Crabtree grades A− for health, #378 of 503 in Quebec and #1,109 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Crabtree
Ahead of regions as deprived
Crabtree’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.1 predicts: 82.0 years against 80.3. For its deprivation ↓
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Crabtree 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: #378 of 503 in Quebec and #1,109 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.7 years
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Crabtree’s region is above the line.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.1, Crabtree’s region would be expected to reach 80.3 years; it reaches 82.0. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (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
More adults report obesity than across Quebec: 33%, 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.
Getting to hospital from Crabtree: 6.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Crabtree’s own, not the region’s.
Against 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Crabtree sits near the middle.
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.
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
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Crabtree’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 55% 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 20% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Crabtree is 26th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,171 to 4,305 people, median 4.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown SK B+ | 4,282 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Claresholm AB A+ | 4,242 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 3 | Invermere BC B+ | 4,305 | 0.8 km | 57% |
| 24 | Sunrise Estates BC A | 4,292 | 6.4 km | 50% |
| 25 | Merivale Gardens - Grenfell Glen - Pineglen - Country Place ON A | 4,172 | 6.5 km | 56% |
| 26 | Crabtree QC A− | 4,237 | 6.6 km | 56% |
| 27 | Westphal NS B | 4,201 | 6.7 km | 51% |
| 28 | Fraipont MB B | 4,221 | 6.9 km | 52% |
| 40 | Simonds NB D | 4,263 | 21 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Crabtree
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crabtree | 6.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Paul 4.0 km | 4.2 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé 5.1 km | 11 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Joliette 6.3 km | 1.3 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Liguori 7.4 km | 10 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Jacques 7.4 km | 13 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée 8.9 km | 1.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
Same region, same survey: Crabtree’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Saint-Jacques is the furthest from care, 13 km to Crabtree’s 6.6 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Crabtree alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Crabtree
How healthy is Crabtree?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How far is Crabtree from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Crabtree is 6.5 km from a clinic and 1.1 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Crabtree?
For the health region that includes Crabtree, women can expect 83.7 years and men 80.3 (2022/2024).
How is Crabtree’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 Crabtree’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
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).