Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Huntingdon, 55% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Lives in the region last 82.5 years on average (2022/2024): 84.2 for women, 80.8 for men. Measured from where Huntingdon’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 13 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Huntingdon a grade of A−, #337 of 503 in Quebec and #983 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Huntingdon
A long way to hospital
Distance is Huntingdon’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 13 km. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 21% report high blood pressure and 9.9% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Huntingdon sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Huntingdon 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.
Huntingdon 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: #337 of 503 in Quebec and #983 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.
The nearest hospital is 13 km from the average home in Huntingdon
Straight-line distances from each part of Huntingdon, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Huntingdon 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.9%
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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 6th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Huntingdon itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
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
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Huntingdon’s lies near the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.7, the expected figure is 82.1 years, and Huntingdon’s region matches it closely with 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 54% and 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 health is no outlier: 64% say very good or excellent (Quebec: 64%) and 23% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Huntingdon comes 30th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,956 to 3,045 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dewdney Place SK B+ | 3,021 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 2 | Buchanan ON B | 3,006 | 1.0 km | 53% |
| 3 | Kirkendall South ON B | 3,033 | 1.1 km | 53% |
| 28 | East Garafraxa ON B | 2,976 | 11 km | 51% |
| 29 | North Shore PE B− | 2,994 | 12 km | 51% |
| 30 | Huntingdon QC A− | 3,001 | 13 km | 55% |
| 31 | Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil QC A− | 2,999 | 16 km | 55% |
| 32 | Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu QC A− | 2,984 | 17 km | 55% |
| 40 | Elkford BC B− | 3,030 | 55 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Huntingdon
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntingdon | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Godmanchester 2.6 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Hinchinbrooke 9.3 km | 12 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Sainte-Barbe 11 km | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka 12 km | 6.5 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Ormstown 14 km | 2.2 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Anicet 17 km | 23 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
One health region covers Huntingdon and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Ormstown is the closest to care, 2.2 km to Huntingdon’s 13 km.
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: Huntingdon shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Huntingdon
How far is Huntingdon from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Huntingdon live: 0.6 km to a clinic, 0.5 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Huntingdon?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Huntingdon’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Huntingdon’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Huntingdon?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.2 for women, 80.8 for men around Huntingdon (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).