Photo: art_inthecity from Montréal, CA · CC BY 2.0Few places match Granby for health: it beats 96% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 57%; Quebec as a whole is at 57%. For Granby itself the measure is access: 2.6 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Granby is A+, #68 of 503 in Quebec and #177 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Granby
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
At 82.9 years, Granby’s region outlives the 81.0 that regions scoring 3.0 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
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 ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Granby 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 ↓
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.
Granby 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: #68 of 503 in Quebec and #177 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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 1.9 years ahead of the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Granby’s region shows above the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.0, the expected figure is 81.0 years, and Granby’s region does better with 82.9. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 80.4 years. A household income of about $67,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (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.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.1% 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
At 29%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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
This region is 3rd 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Granby’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
56% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (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
Mental health is close to the province’s: 63% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 20% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting to hospital from Granby: 2.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Granby’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, Granby is on the near 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.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Granby comes 13th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 53,630 to 95,763 people, median 3.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Vancouver BC A+ | 66,624 | 1.1 km | 59% |
| 2 | Cornwall ON B− | 54,346 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 3 | New Westminster BC A | 92,124 | 1.8 km | 48% |
| 11 | Newmarket ON A | 95,763 | 2.5 km | 51% |
| 12 | Brandon MB C+ | 59,444 | 2.5 km | 51% |
| 13 | Granby QC A+ | 72,180 | 2.6 km | 57% |
| 14 | St. Albert AB B+ | 74,621 | 2.6 km | 51% |
| 15 | Grande Prairie AB C− | 71,160 | 2.7 km | 48% |
| 40 | Keswick ON B+ | 53,630 | 17 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Granby
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granby | 2.6 km | 57% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton 9.1 km | 9.0 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby 9.3 km | 11 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Roxton Pond 9.6 km | 8.2 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Shefford 9.7 km | 10 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Bromont 12 km | 11 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford 12 km | 12 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Granby from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Residents of Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford live further from a hospital, at 12 km against 2.6 km in Granby.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Granby’s own.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
Questions about health in Granby
How healthy is Granby?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
What is the life expectancy in Granby?
There is no figure for Granby alone; its health region’s is 84.8 for women and 81.0 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Granby’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Granby: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Granby from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.9 km from the average resident of Granby and a pharmacy 1.6 km, as the crow flies.
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).