Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Deschambault-Grondines scores better for health than almost every Canadian town
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 62% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Deschambault-Grondines’ is long: 7.7 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Deschambault-Grondines a grade of A+.
What stands out about health in Deschambault-Grondines
Self-rated health runs high
Even once age is allowed for, 10.1 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (61% as answered). Health survey ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 18% of adults, diabetes for 7.2%. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Deschambault-Grondines runs 1.4 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.1 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Deschambault-Grondines 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.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 61% 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
Mental health is no outlier: 66% say very good or excellent (Quebec: 64%) and 22% 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 18% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.2%
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
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 30% report obesity, 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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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 3rd 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Deschambault-Grondines’ own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Deschambault-Grondines’ region’s dot is close to the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Deschambault-Grondines’ region is a typical case: 82.9 years at a score of 2.3, where the trend says 83.4. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 82.9 years. Modest pay, about $75,000 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.
From Deschambault-Grondines, a hospital is 7.7 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Deschambault-Grondines’ own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Deschambault-Grondines is on the far side.
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.
Health in the places around Deschambault-Grondines
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deschambault-Grondines | 7.7 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Marc-des-Carrières 7.6 km | 1.3 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Portneuf 9.7 km | 12 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière 13 km | 18 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Casimir 14 km | 8.2 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Cap-Santé 14 km | 20 km | 62% | 82.9 | A |
| Saint-Alban 16 km | 7.0 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 82.8 against 82.9 here. Residents of Cap-Santé live further from a hospital, at 20 km against 7.7 km in Deschambault-Grondines.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Deschambault-Grondines alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Deschambault-Grondines
How healthy is Deschambault-Grondines?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Deschambault-Grondines?
There is no figure for Deschambault-Grondines alone; its health region’s is 84.7 for women and 81.1 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Deschambault-Grondines from a hospital?
Residents of Deschambault-Grondines have a clinic 5.1 km away on average and a pharmacy 6.0 km away, in straight lines.
How is Deschambault-Grondines’ 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 Deschambault-Grondines’ 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).