Photo: Chicoutimi · CC BY 3.0For health, Hampstead is ahead of 92% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 54%, behind the 57% for Quebec. Closer to home, a hospital is just 1.0 km from the average resident of Hampstead, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Hampstead grades A for health, #143 of 503 in Quebec and #439 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Hampstead
More years than its deprivation would give
Set against regions as deprived (3.0), Hampstead’s region gains years: 83.4 where the trend says 80.8. For its deprivation ↓
A long-lived region
Hampstead’s region sits 1.9 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.6 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (15%) and diabetes (7.3%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Near a hospital
Measured from where people live, Hampstead is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 0.9 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Hampstead 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: #143 of 503 in Quebec and #439 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-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 2.6 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Hampstead’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Hampstead’s region sits above it: 83.4 years where a score of 3.0 predicts 80.8. It tops the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 80.2 years. The towns here bring in about $68,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 2nd 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Hampstead’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.
15% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.3% diabetes
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, 23%, trails Quebec (29%). Fewer adults drink heavily, 19% to the province’s 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.
The nearest hospital is 1.0 km from the average home in Hampstead
Straight-line distances from each part of Hampstead, weighted by who lives there.
Hampstead is closer in than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
55% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (56%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region is behind Quebec, 58% very good or excellent to 64%; 23% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Hampstead is 7th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (7,307 to 7,607 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University ON A | 7,595 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 2 | Ermineskin AB B+ | 7,483 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 3 | Currie Barracks AB A+ | 7,342 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 5 | Cathedral Village SK B+ | 7,311 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 6 | Campbellton NB C− | 7,485 | 1.0 km | 36% |
| 7 | Hampstead QC A | 7,464 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 8 | Slave Lake AB C− | 7,334 | 1.0 km | 48% |
| 9 | Gibson ON B | 7,581 | 1.0 km | 53% |
| 40 | Trent Lakes ON C− | 7,357 | 30 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Hampstead
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hampstead | 1.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Snowdon 1.1 km | 1.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Loyola 1.6 km | 0.6 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Côte-Saint-Antoine 1.8 km | 1.1 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Côte-Saint-Luc 1.9 km | 1.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Savane 2.0 km | 1.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Upper Lachine 2.3 km | 0.8 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
Only the hospital column is local here: Hampstead and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Hampstead shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Hampstead
How is Hampstead’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Hampstead’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Hampstead?
Women in Hampstead’s region live to 85.5 on average and men to 81.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Hampstead?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Hampstead from a hospital?
Residents of Hampstead have a clinic 1.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.1 km away, in straight lines.
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).