Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0The region around Dudswell carries less chronic illness than the typical Canadian town: 14% to 17%
In the health survey, 57% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec’s 57%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Dudswell’s is long: 27 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Dudswell is A−.
What stands out about health in Dudswell
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Dudswell live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (29 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.0, the trend across regions gives 81.0 years of life; Dudswell’s region reaches 82.9. For its deprivation ↓
No pharmacy close by
From the average home in Dudswell, a pharmacy is 15 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Longer lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Dudswell runs 1.4 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.2 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Dudswell 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.
From Dudswell, a hospital is 27 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Dudswell’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Dudswell 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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.9 years
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Dudswell’s region comes out above the trend.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.0 on the index, the line expects 81.0 years; Dudswell’s region reaches 82.9. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 80.4 years. Its towns’ household income, about $67,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s 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.
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 3rd of the 18.
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 Dudswell’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.1%
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 29% 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.
56% 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
Stress touches 20% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 63%, the province 64% (Quebec).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Dudswell
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dudswell | 27 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Weedon 13 km | 38 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Bury 15 km | 30 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| East Angus 15 km | 16 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Westbury 15 km | 17 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Dudswell’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Dudswell’s own.
Questions about health in Dudswell
How far is Dudswell from a hospital?
A clinic is 12 km from the average resident of Dudswell and a pharmacy 15 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Dudswell?
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 14% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Dudswell?
Women in Dudswell’s region live to 84.8 on average and men to 81.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Dudswell’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 Dudswell’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).