Photo: P199 · Public domainA hospital trip from Gracefield means 32 km on average, in a straight line
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 55% very good or excellent, 57% for Quebec. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 5.0 km away on average and 0.4 of them within 3 km of a typical home. Health gives Gracefield a grade of C+, #496 of 503 in Quebec and #2,099 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Gracefield
Smoking runs high
The age-standardised smoking rate around Gracefield is well above the typical town’s; 11% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Gracefield at 4.8 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Less chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 18% of adults, diabetes for 8.6%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Gracefield grades C+ 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: #496 of 503 in Quebec and #2,099 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.
18% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.6% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
More adults report obesity than across Quebec: 34%, 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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 12th 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Gracefield’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Gracefield’s lies near the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Gracefield belongs to lives about as long as its score of 3.1 predicts: 80.7 years, the trend 80.5. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 80.7.
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.
Everyday care in Gracefield: the nearest pharmacy 5.0 km away, 0.4 within 3 km
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Gracefield’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Gracefield 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 55% and 56%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (59% against 64%), while 21% 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, Gracefield is 37th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,502 to 2,588 people, median 6.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City Commercial Core ON A | 2,581 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Rimbey AB C+ | 2,502 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Elmwood AB B+ | 2,522 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 35 | Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce QC B+ | 2,575 | 20 km | 59% |
| 36 | Nanton AB A− | 2,522 | 27 km | 56% |
| 37 | Gracefield QC C+ | 2,544 | 32 km | 55% |
| 38 | Saint-Damien QC B | 2,569 | 34 km | 56% |
| 39 | Mandeville QC B | 2,511 | 37 km | 56% |
| 40 | North Frontenac ON B− | 2,515 | 47 km | 53% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Gracefield
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
One health region covers Gracefield and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Messines live nearer a hospital, at 13 km against 32 km in Gracefield.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Gracefield itself is the trip to care.
- 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. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
Questions about health in Gracefield
How far is Gracefield from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Gracefield live: 4.9 km to a clinic, 5.0 km to a pharmacy.
How is Gracefield’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Gracefield has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Gracefield?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Gracefield?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.2 for women, 79.1 for men around Gracefield (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).