Photo: Michel Craig · CC BY-SA 2.0For health, Eastman is ahead of 89% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 57% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec’s 57%. What sets Eastman apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 14 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Eastman grades A for health, #253 of 503 in Quebec and #716 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Eastman
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Eastman’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.0 predicts: 82.9 years against 81.0. For its deprivation ↓
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Eastman the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 12 km. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (9.1%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Eastman 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 ↓
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.
Eastman 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: #253 of 503 in Quebec and #716 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.9 years
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Eastman’s region is above the line.
At 3.0 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 81.0 years, and the region Eastman belongs to reaches 82.9. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 80.4 years in the middle. Judged by income, around $67,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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.
Getting to hospital from Eastman: 14 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Eastman’s 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, Eastman 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (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
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 29% 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.
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 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 Eastman’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 56% to 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Quebec (63% against 64%), while 20% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Eastman is 26th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,668 to 2,742 people, median 7.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waterridge Village ON A+ | 2,737 | 0.6 km | 56% |
| 2 | Sundre AB C+ | 2,683 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 2,671 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 24 | Bouctouche NB C+ | 2,678 | 11 km | 43% |
| 25 | Macamic QC B− | 2,698 | 12 km | 57% |
| 26 | Eastman QC A | 2,706 | 14 km | 57% |
| 27 | Emerson-Franklin MB C+ | 2,686 | 15 km | 51% |
| 28 | Freelton ON B− | 2,724 | 15 km | 53% |
| 40 | Waskaganish QC | 2,726 | 132 km | – |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Eastman
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastman | 14 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Austin 5.4 km | 10 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Orford 8.3 km | 9.2 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Stukely-Sud 9.0 km | 22 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Magog 12 km | 2.6 km | 57% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Bolton-Est 13 km | 16 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Racine 17 km | 25 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
Same region, same survey: Eastman’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Racine live further from a hospital, at 25 km against 14 km in Eastman.
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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Eastman shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
Questions about health in Eastman
How healthy is Eastman?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
How far is Eastman from a hospital?
Residents of Eastman have a clinic 14 km away on average and a pharmacy 2.6 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Eastman?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.8 for women, 81.0 for men around Eastman (2022/2024).
How is Eastman’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 Eastman’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).