Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.055% of adults around Hudson rate their health very good or excellent
Across the region, life runs to 82.5 years on average: women 84.2, men 80.8, in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 21 km from the average resident of Hudson, further than the usual 3.7 km. Hudson grades B+ for health, #397 of 503 in Quebec and #1,165 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Hudson
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Hudson the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 20 km. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Easier circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Hudson at 1.4 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the bottom band. The wider area ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Hudson runs 1.0 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.5 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Hudson 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. Its place: #397 of 503 in Quebec and #1,165 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.
Getting to hospital from Hudson: 21 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Hudson’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Hudson 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.9% 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
Obesity tracks the province: 32% of adults here, 29% across Quebec.
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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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 6th 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Hudson’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.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Hudson’s region is near the line.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.7 would be expected to reach 82.1 years, and Hudson’s region is close, at 82.5. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 7 of them below it, a median of 81.4.
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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 54% to 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 64% very good or excellent against 64% for Quebec; stress is a daily matter for 23%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Hudson is 37th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 5,434 to 5,643 people, median 3.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hillview AB B+ | 5,473 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | Stonewall MB C | 5,443 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Bankview AB A+ | 5,610 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 35 | Metcalfe ON A− | 5,434 | 18 km | 56% |
| 36 | Stirling ON D | 5,489 | 18 km | 45% |
| 37 | Hudson QC B+ | 5,533 | 21 km | 55% |
| 38 | New Glasgow PE B− | 5,502 | 22 km | 51% |
| 39 | Juan de Fuca (Part 1) BC A− | 5,439 | 24 km | 55% |
| 40 | Gananoque ON C | 5,568 | 28 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Hudson
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Kanesatake 3.8 km | 16 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Saint-Lazare 6.3 km | 17 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Oka 6.8 km | 15 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Saint-Placide 9.2 km | 18 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac 9.8 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Vaudreuil-Dorion 11 km | 17 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
Across a regional line, Kanesatake has its own figures: life expectancy 82.2, against 82.5 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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 Hudson’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Hudson
How is Hudson’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Hudson’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Hudson from a hospital?
For everyday care, Hudson’s residents are 1.6 km from a pharmacy and 9.6 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Hudson?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Hudson?
Women in Hudson’s region live to 84.2 on average and men to 80.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).