Photo: Yanik Crépeau · CC BY-SA 3.0Health in Ferme-Neuve beats 88% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 60% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Quebec as a whole manages 57%. For Ferme-Neuve itself the measure is access, and it lags: 18 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Ferme-Neuve is A, #275 of 503 in Quebec and #804 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Ferme-Neuve
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Ferme-Neuve the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 17 km. Getting care ↓
More people feeling well
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 8.0 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 58% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Ferme-Neuve, a pharmacy is 17 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 19% of adults, diabetes for 8.1%. 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.
Ferme-Neuve 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: #275 of 503 in Quebec and #804 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.
Getting to hospital from Ferme-Neuve: 18 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Ferme-Neuve, weighted by who lives there.
From Ferme-Neuve that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 58% and 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health is no outlier: 66% say very good or excellent (Quebec: 64%) and 20% live with stressful days.
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 (8.1%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 29%, sits within a few points of Quebec (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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.0 years
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Ferme-Neuve’s region is above the line.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Ferme-Neuve’s region beats it: 82.2 years against the 81.2 the trend gives a score of 2.9. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, none lives longer; the middle of the group is 80.9 years. Its towns’ household income, about $81,000, 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
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Quebec, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 7th place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Ferme-Neuve’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Ferme-Neuve comes 29th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,773 to 2,859 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 8.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forestville QC B+ | 2,835 | 0.9 km | 61% |
| 2 | Minnedosa MB B− | 2,859 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Grimshaw AB C− | 2,799 | 1.3 km | 48% |
| 27 | Rosthern No. 403 SK D− | 2,791 | 17 km | 47% |
| 28 | Navan - Sarsfield ON A− | 2,853 | 17 km | 56% |
| 29 | Ferme-Neuve QC A | 2,816 | 18 km | 60% |
| 30 | Bedford QC A− | 2,845 | 20 km | 57% |
| 31 | Rougemont QC A− | 2,832 | 20 km | 55% |
| 40 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints QC B | 2,841 | 76 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Ferme-Neuve
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferme-Neuve | 18 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Mont-Laurier 18 km | 2.7 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Lac-des-Écorces 19 km | 11 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
Every place around Ferme-Neuve shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Residents of Mont-Laurier live nearer a hospital, at 2.7 km against 18 km in Ferme-Neuve.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Ferme-Neuve itself is the trip to care.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
Questions about health in Ferme-Neuve
How healthy is Ferme-Neuve?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 13%.
How far is Ferme-Neuve from a hospital?
For everyday care, Ferme-Neuve’s residents are 17 km from a pharmacy and 2.3 km from a clinic on average.
How is Ferme-Neuve’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Ferme-Neuve’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Ferme-Neuve?
For the health region that includes Ferme-Neuve, women can expect 83.7 years and men 80.8 (2022/2024).
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).