Photo: SDCJ · Public domain56% of adults around Joliette rate their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 82.0 years (83.7 for women, 80.3 for men, 2022/2024). Measured from where Joliette’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 1.3 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Joliette a grade of A−, #323 of 503 in Quebec and #948 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Joliette
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Joliette’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.1 predicts: 82.0 years against 80.3. 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 ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as Joliette; from its centre of population the trip is 0.4 km. Getting care ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Joliette 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: #323 of 503 in Quebec and #948 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 region lives 1.7 years longer than its deprivation predicts
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Joliette’s dot is marked, above the line.
At 3.1 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 80.3 years, and the region Joliette belongs to reaches 82.0. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 80.9. The towns here bring in about $81,000 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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, 33%, tops Quebec (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.
From Joliette, a hospital is 1.3 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Joliette, weighted by who lives there.
Joliette 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.
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
Ranked 8th 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Joliette’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.
55% 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Quebec (64% against 64%), while 20% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Joliette is 11th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (21,921 to 22,970 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Church-Wellesley ON A | 22,415 | 0.2 km | 50% |
| 2 | Moss Park ON A | 22,701 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | High Park North ON A | 22,162 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 9 | Electoral Area A, Metro Vancouver BC A+ | 22,031 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 10 | Bedford Park-Nortown ON A | 22,376 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 11 | Joliette QC A− | 22,408 | 1.3 km | 56% |
| 12 | Bayview Village ON A | 22,617 | 1.4 km | 50% |
| 13 | Mont-Royal QC A | 22,821 | 1.6 km | 54% |
| 40 | Saint-Lazare QC A− | 22,895 | 17 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Joliette
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joliette | 1.3 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Paul 3.0 km | 4.2 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée 3.6 km | 1.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies 3.9 km | 2.5 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Crabtree 6.3 km | 6.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Thomas 7.2 km | 6.7 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes 8.1 km | 5.8 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
Same region, same survey: Joliette’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Saint-Thomas is the furthest from care, 6.7 km to Joliette’s 1.3 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Joliette alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
Questions about health in Joliette
How is Joliette’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Joliette has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Joliette?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Joliette?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.7 for women, 80.3 for men around Joliette (2022/2024).
How far is Joliette from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Joliette live: 1.1 km to a clinic, 2.1 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).