Photo: DomLemLali · CC BY-SA 4.0Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer around Farnham (14% against 17% for the typical Canadian town)
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Quebec, 57% against 57%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Farnham’s is long: 20 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Farnham grades A− for health, #333 of 503 in Quebec and #975 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Farnham
A long way to hospital
Distance is Farnham’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 20 km. Getting care ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
At 82.9 years, Farnham’s region outlives the 81.0 that regions scoring 3.0 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Farnham, a child can expect 1.4 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 5.4 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (56% 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.
Farnham 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: #333 of 503 in Quebec and #975 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 20 km from the average home in Farnham
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Farnham’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Farnham 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.
1.9 years above the line for regions this deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Farnham’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Use the deprivation index alone and Farnham’s region, at 3.0, should live about 81.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.9. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (9 of 10), with a median of 80.4. On income alone, around $67,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (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.
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 Farnham’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
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.
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
Obesity tracks the province: 29% of adults here, 29% across 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Farnham is 40th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 11,110 to 11,518 people, median 2.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milton-Parc QC A | 11,369 | 0.2 km | 54% |
| 2 | Cabbagetown-South St.James Town ON A | 11,205 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | New Toronto ON A | 11,502 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 38 | Millbrook ON C | 11,507 | 15 km | 47% |
| 39 | Pont-Rouge QC A | 11,339 | 18 km | 62% |
| 40 | Farnham QC A− | 11,315 | 20 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Farnham
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farnham | 20 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Sainte-Sabine 5.3 km | 20 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Sainte-Brigide-d'Iberville 8.5 km | 16 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Ange-Gardien 9.1 km | 17 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Saint-Alexandre 13 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Brigham 14 km | 8.3 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Saint-Césaire 15 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Saint-Alexandre’s life expectancy is 82.5, this region’s 82.9. Brigham is the closest to care, 8.3 km to Farnham’s 20 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Farnham’s own.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Farnham
How far is Farnham from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Farnham live: 1.5 km to a clinic, 1.4 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Farnham?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
What is the life expectancy in Farnham?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Farnham’s health region only: 84.8 years for women and 81.0 for men (2022/2024).
How is Farnham’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Farnham: 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).