Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Health in Hatley beats 92% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Quebec: 57% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 57%. Measured from where Hatley’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 9.8 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Hatley grades A for health, #165 of 503 in Quebec and #469 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Hatley
Living past what deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.0, the trend across regions gives 81.0 years of life; Hatley’s region reaches 82.9. For its deprivation ↓
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (9.1%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to hospital
Residents of Hatley live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (7.5 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Longer lives in the region
Hatley’s region sits 1.4 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.2 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Hatley 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: #165 of 503 in Quebec and #469 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.9 years more here
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Hatley’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.0 on the index, the line expects 81.0 years; Hatley’s region reaches 82.9. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (9.1%)
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
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 29% report obesity, 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.
The nearest hospital is 9.8 km from the average home in Hatley
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Hatley’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, Hatley is on the far 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.
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, 3rd 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Hatley’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 reads like the rest of Quebec: 63% against 64%, and 20% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Hatley is 25th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,500 to 2,587 people, median 4.7 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% |
| 23 | Pembina MB B− | 2,502 | 8.9 km | 51% |
| 24 | Dufferin MB B− | 2,587 | 9.1 km | 51% |
| 25 | Hatley QC A | 2,512 | 9.8 km | 57% |
| 26 | East Preston NS B | 2,573 | 10 km | 51% |
| 27 | Brooke-Alvinston ON C | 2,557 | 15 km | 49% |
| 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 Hatley
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatley | 9.8 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Waterville 3.0 km | 11 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Sherbrooke 8.2 km | 3.7 km | 57% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Compton 11 km | 11 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley 12 km | 7.3 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Ascot Corner 17 km | 6.1 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Stoke 19 km | 7.7 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
Only the hospital column is local here: Hatley and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Sherbrooke live nearer a hospital, at 3.7 km against 9.8 km in Hatley.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Hatley 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. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Hatley
How healthy is Hatley?
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 is Hatley’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Hatley: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Hatley?
Women in Hatley’s region live to 84.8 on average and men to 81.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Hatley from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Hatley live: 3.1 km to a clinic, 4.9 km to a pharmacy.
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).