Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.061% of adults around Hérouxville call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.6, women 83.3 and men 79.9 (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 17 km from the average resident of Hérouxville, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Hérouxville a grade of B+.
What stands out about health in Hérouxville
A long way to hospital
Residents of Hérouxville live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (15 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
More years than its deprivation would give
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.2, would put Hérouxville’s region near 80.0 years; it reaches 81.6. For its deprivation ↓
Long-term conditions run low
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 8.2%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Hérouxville 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.
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.
Getting to hospital from Hérouxville: 17 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Hérouxville, weighted by who lives there.
Hérouxville is further out 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.6 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Hérouxville’s dot is marked, above the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 3.2 at 80.0 years of life; Hérouxville’s region does better, at 81.6. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 7, with 80.5 years in the middle. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $62,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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 (21%) and diabetes (8.2%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 34%, tops Quebec (29%). More adults drink heavily, 25% 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.
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
Ranked 11th of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Hérouxville’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 59% very good or excellent, against 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 beats Quebec as well: 68% very good or excellent to 64%, with 20% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Hérouxville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hérouxville | 17 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Tite 8.7 km | 23 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Shawinigan 12 km | 4.5 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Saint-Narcisse 16 km | 20 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Stanislas 19 km | 27 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
Around Hérouxville the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Shawinigan live nearer a hospital, at 4.5 km against 17 km in Hérouxville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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. Only the distances on this page belong to Hérouxville alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Hérouxville
How healthy is Hérouxville?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
How far is Hérouxville from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Hérouxville live: 6.5 km to a clinic, 6.2 km to a pharmacy.
How is Hérouxville’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Hérouxville 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 Hérouxville?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.3 for women, 79.9 for men around Hérouxville (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).