Health in Durham-Sud · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
61% of adults around Durham-Sud call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.6, with women at 83.3 and men at 79.9. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Durham-Sud’s is long: 27 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Durham-Sud grades B+ for health.
Quebec: 57% · Source area for very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy: the Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec
Chronic conditions
14%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Residents of Durham-Sud live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (28 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
More years than its deprivation would give
Set against regions as deprived (3.2), Durham-Sud’s region gains years: 81.6 where the trend says 80.0. For its deprivation ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Durham-Sud’s neighbourhoods average 4.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 8.2%. 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.
Health Grade
Durham-Sud grades B+ for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
Very good or excellent health (61%)Better than 95% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (14%)Better than 86% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 45% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.6)Better than 67% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (27 km)Better than 13% of Canadian towns
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.
Getting care
From Durham-Sud, a hospital is 27 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Durham-Sud’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
27 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
14 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
14 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Durham-Sud that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
1.6 years above the line for regions this deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Durham-Sud’s dot is marked, above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Durham-Sud’s region, at 3.2, outlives the trend’s 80.0 years with 81.6. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 7 of them below it, a median of 80.5. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $62,000, 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.
Conditions and habits
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
21%
Arthritis
21%
Diabetes
8.2%
Obese (self-reported)
34%
Mood disorder
9.5%
Anxiety disorder
9.9%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
25%
Flu shot in the past year
26%
Quebec
At 34%, self-reported obesity is above Quebec’s 29%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% 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.
The wider area
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.
81.6
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.4
more years expected at 65
11th
longest of 18 regions in Quebec
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Région de Laval84.1
Région de Montréal83.4
Région de la Capitale-Nationale82.9
Région de l'Estrie82.9
Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches82.8
Région de la Montérégie82.5
Région des Laurentides82.2
Région de Lanaudière82.0
Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean81.8
Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent81.7
Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec81.6
Région de l'Outaouais80.7
Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine79.9
Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue79.5
Région de la Côte-Nord79.4
Région du Nord-du-Québec78.1
Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James76.8
Région du Nunavik65.2
This region is 11th 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
Residential instability3.5
Economic dependency2.9
Ethno-cultural composition1.5
Situational vulnerability4.0
The index is context and never graded: it describes Durham-Sud’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.
Health survey
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 59% 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
Health very good or excellent
59%
Health fair or poor
11%
Mental health very good or excellent
68%
Mental health fair or poor
5.1%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
58%
Satisfied with life
91%
Quebec
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 68% very good or excellent to 64%; 20% 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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Durham-Sud
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Not every neighbour shares the region: Melbourne’s life expectancy is 82.9, this region’s 81.6.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Durham-Sud alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Durham-Sud
How far is Durham-Sud from a hospital?
A clinic is 14 km from the average resident of Durham-Sud and a pharmacy 14 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Durham-Sud?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
How is Durham-Sud’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Durham-Sud: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Durham-Sud?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Durham-Sud’s health region only: 83.3 years for women and 79.9 for men (2022/2024).
Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0