Health in Fermont · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
More adults feel healthy around Fermont: 61% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
Lives in the region last 79.4 years on average (2022/2024): 82.1 for women, 77.0 for men. Measured from where Fermont’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 0.3 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Fermont grades B+ for health.
Born around Fermont, a child can expect 2.1 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.4 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Fermont than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 11% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (9.1%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. 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
Fermont 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 93% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 80% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 26% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.4)Better than 32% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (0.3 km)Better than almost every Canadian town
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.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 regions in Quebec
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.
79.4
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.4
more years expected at 65
15th
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 15th 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 instability2.8
Economic dependency1.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability2.4
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Fermont’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.1%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
22%
Arthritis
21%
Diabetes
9.1%
Obese (self-reported)
37%
Mood disorder
7.5%
Anxiety disorder
10%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
25%
Flu shot in the past year
29%
Quebec
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 37% of adults against 29% for Quebec. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 25% to 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.
For its deprivation
The region lives 1.2 years longer than its deprivation predicts
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Fermont’s region shows above the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.7 on the index, the line expects 78.2 years; Fermont’s region reaches 79.4. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 78.2 years.
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 care
The nearest hospital is 0.3 km from the average home in Fermont
Straight-line distances from each part of Fermont, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
0.3 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
20 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.5 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 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 Fermont that is nearer than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Across a regional line, Wabush has its own figures: life expectancy 77.1, against 79.4 here. Residents of Wabush live further from a hospital, at 6.2 km against 0.3 km in Fermont.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Fermont shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
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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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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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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 Fermont
How healthy is Fermont?
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 15%.
How is Fermont’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Fermont has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Fermont?
For the health region that includes Fermont, women can expect 82.1 years and men 77.0 (2022/2024).
How far is Fermont from a hospital?
Residents of Fermont have a clinic 20 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.5 km away, in straight lines.
Photo: Élie Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0