Photo: Harfang · CC BY-SA 3.0Health in Donnacona beats 92% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 62% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Quebec’s 57%. Closer to home, a hospital is 24 km from the average resident of Donnacona, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Donnacona is A, #165 of 503 in Quebec and #469 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Donnacona
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Donnacona the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 24 km. Getting care ↓
Self-rated health runs high
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 10.1 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 61% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Less chronic 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
Born around Donnacona, a child can expect 1.4 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.1 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Donnacona 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: #165 of 503 in Quebec and #469 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.
The nearest hospital is 24 km from the average home in Donnacona
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Donnacona’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Donnacona 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.
61% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Quebec (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 wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 66% very good or excellent against 64% for Quebec; stress is a daily matter for 22%.
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 30% of adults against 29% for Quebec.
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
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Donnacona’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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Donnacona’s lies near the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.3, the expected figure is 83.4 years, and Donnacona’s region matches it closely with 82.9. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 82.9. A household income of about $75,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 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.
Donnacona is 40th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 7,653 to 7,930 people, median 4.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Landsdale ON B+ | 7,681 | 0.5 km | 53% |
| 2 | Central St. Boniface MB B+ | 7,772 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Woodbine-Lumsden ON A | 7,928 | 1.3 km | 50% |
| 38 | Kenora, Unorganized ON D | 7,877 | 19 km | 44% |
| 39 | Cypress County AB C+ | 7,855 | 20 km | 52% |
| 40 | Donnacona QC A | 7,785 | 24 km | 62% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Donnacona
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donnacona | 24 km | 62% | 82.9 | A |
| Cap-Santé 5.2 km | 20 km | 62% | 82.9 | A |
| Sainte-Croix 6.6 km | 24 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Pont-Rouge 8.9 km | 18 km | 62% | 82.9 | A |
| Neuville 11 km | 23 km | 62% | 82.9 | A |
| Saint-Basile 12 km | 14 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly 13 km | 25 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
Across a regional line, Sainte-Croix has its own figures: life expectancy 82.8, against 82.9 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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. 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. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Donnacona 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.
Questions about health in Donnacona
How healthy is Donnacona?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
How far is Donnacona from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Donnacona live: 1.1 km to a clinic, 1.2 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Donnacona?
There is no figure for Donnacona alone; its health region’s is 84.7 for women and 81.1 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Donnacona’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Donnacona: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with 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).