Photo: Johny-le-cowboy · CC BY-SA 3.0Health in Dolbeau-Mistassini beats 95% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 66%, ahead of the 57% for Quebec. Measured from where Dolbeau-Mistassini’s residents live, a hospital is 2.7 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. Health gives Dolbeau-Mistassini a grade of A+, #83 of 503 in Quebec and #264 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Dolbeau-Mistassini
More people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 14.7 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (64% as answered). 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.
Dolbeau-Mistassini 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: #83 of 503 in Quebec and #264 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.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 64% very good or excellent, against 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 72% very good or excellent to 64%; 14% 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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 1.4 years ahead of the trend
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Dolbeau-Mistassini’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
At 3.1 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 80.4 years, and the region Dolbeau-Mistassini belongs to reaches 81.8. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, a median of 80.6. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $69,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9% diabetes
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 30%, the province 29%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (29% against 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.
Getting to hospital from Dolbeau-Mistassini: 2.7 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Dolbeau-Mistassini’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Dolbeau-Mistassini are closer 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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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 9th 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 Dolbeau-Mistassini’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.
Among 40 towns its size, Dolbeau-Mistassini is 20th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 13,265 to 13,913 people, median 2.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Queen West ON A | 13,599 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Durand ON B+ | 13,338 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 3 | Vanier QC A+ | 13,494 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 18 | Ionview ON A | 13,382 | 2.4 km | 50% |
| 19 | Wychwood ON A | 13,828 | 2.4 km | 50% |
| 20 | Dolbeau-Mistassini QC A+ | 13,581 | 2.7 km | 66% |
| 21 | Sainte-Marie QC A | 13,873 | 2.8 km | 59% |
| 22 | Rossmere-A MB B+ | 13,613 | 3.0 km | 52% |
| 40 | Bonnyville No. 87 AB D | 13,265 | 16 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Dolbeau-Mistassini
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolbeau-Mistassini | 2.7 km | 66% | 81.8 | A+ |
| Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc 10 km | 12 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Albanel 14 km | 11 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
Same region, same survey: Dolbeau-Mistassini’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc live further from a hospital, at 12 km against 2.7 km in Dolbeau-Mistassini.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Dolbeau-Mistassini itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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 Dolbeau-Mistassini
How healthy is Dolbeau-Mistassini?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How is Dolbeau-Mistassini’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 Dolbeau-Mistassini’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Dolbeau-Mistassini?
Women in Dolbeau-Mistassini’s region live to 83.2 on average and men to 80.4, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Dolbeau-Mistassini from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Dolbeau-Mistassini is 1.8 km from a clinic and 1.9 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).