Photo: P. Davignon · CC BY-SA 4.0Few places match Kanesatake for health: it beats 89% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 60% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Quebec as a whole manages 57%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Kanesatake’s is long: 16 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Kanesatake is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Kanesatake itself. Kanesatake grades A for health.
What stands out about health in Kanesatake
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Kanesatake’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 17 km. Getting care ↓
Upbeat about their health
Even once age is allowed for, 8.0 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (58% as answered). Health survey ↓
Less chronic illness
High blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (8.1%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Kanesatake 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.
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.
From Kanesatake, a hospital is 16 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Kanesatake, weighted by who lives there.
Kanesatake 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 58% 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: 66% say very good or excellent (Quebec: 64%) and 20% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.1% 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
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 29% report obesity, the province 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.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 1.0 years of life
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Kanesatake’s lies above the line.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Kanesatake’s region beats it: 82.2 years against the 81.2 the trend gives a score of 2.9. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 80.9. Its towns’ household income, about $81,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s correlation: 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.
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 7th of the 18.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health in the places around Kanesatake
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kanesatake | 16 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Oka 3.7 km | 15 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Hudson 3.8 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Placide 9.0 km | 18 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Saint-Lazare 9.4 km | 17 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac 9.5 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Joseph-du-Lac 10.0 km | 6.4 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Hudson’s life expectancy is 82.5, this region’s 82.2. Saint-Joseph-du-Lac is the closest to care, 6.4 km to Kanesatake’s 16 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Kanesatake’s own.
- 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.
- 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 Kanesatake
How is Kanesatake’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 Kanesatake’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town. Reserves get no overall grade, and the survey skips them, so these regional figures describe the people around it.
How healthy is Kanesatake?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 13% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Kanesatake from a hospital?
Residents of Kanesatake have a clinic 9.0 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.9 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Kanesatake?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.7 for women, 80.8 for men around Kanesatake (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). 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).