Health in Kahnawake · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
For health, Kahnawake is ahead of 94% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 55% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Quebec (57%). Measured from where Kahnawake’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 1.3 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. As a First Nations reserve, Kahnawake can be graded for health but gets no overall grade and no place in ranked lists. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Kahnawake. Health gives Kahnawake a grade of A.
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 ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Kahnawake’s region sits 1.0 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.5 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Kahnawake 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.
Very good or excellent health (55%)Better than 69% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 76% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 85% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (82.5)Better than 82% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (1.3 km)Better than 91% of Canadian towns
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.
Conditions and habits
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
High blood pressure
21%
Arthritis
18%
Diabetes
9.9%
Obese (self-reported)
32%
Mood disorder
11%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
11%
Smoke every day
8.2%
Heavy drinking
22%
Flu shot in the past year
29%
Quebec
Self-reported obesity, 32%, sits within a few points of 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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
82.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.5
more years expected at 65
6th
longest of 18 regions in Quebec
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Région de Laval84.1
Région de Montréal83.4
Région de la Capitale-Nationale82.9
Région de l'Estrie82.9
Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches82.8
Région de la Montérégie82.5
Région des Laurentides82.2
Région de Lanaudière82.0
Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean81.8
Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent81.7
Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec81.6
Région de l'Outaouais80.7
Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine79.9
Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue79.5
Région de la Côte-Nord79.4
Région du Nord-du-Québec78.1
Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James76.8
Région du Nunavik65.2
Ranked 6th of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Kahnawake’s region shows close to the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Kahnawake’s region, at 2.7, should live about 82.1 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.5, near enough. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Kahnawake: 1.3 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Kahnawake’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
1.3 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
3.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.4 km
residents’ average distance
3.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Residents of Kahnawake are closer than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
Not every neighbour shares the region: Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre’s life expectancy is 83.4, this region’s 82.5.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
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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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Kahnawake shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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 Kahnawake
How healthy is Kahnawake?
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 Kahnawake?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Kahnawake’s health region only: 84.2 years for women and 80.8 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Kahnawake from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Kahnawake is 3.1 km from a clinic and 1.4 km from a pharmacy.
How is Kahnawake’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 Kahnawake’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town. Being a First Nations reserve, it has no overall grade or ranking, and its regional survey figures come from people living off reserve.
Photo: Conrad Poirier · Public domain