Photo: Jée-zus · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 61% of adults around Kingsey Falls; the typical Canadian town: 52%
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.6 years at birth, 83.3 for women and 79.9 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 15 km from the average resident of Kingsey Falls, further than the usual 3.7 km. Kingsey Falls grades B+ for health.
What stands out about health in Kingsey Falls
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Kingsey Falls the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 15 km. Getting care ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
At 81.6 years, Kingsey Falls’ region outlives the 80.0 that regions scoring 3.2 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
A lighter load of illness
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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Kingsey Falls 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.
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 Kingsey Falls, a hospital is 15 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Kingsey Falls, weighted by who lives there.
From Kingsey Falls that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.6 years
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Kingsey Falls’ region shows above the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Kingsey Falls’ region, at 3.2, should live about 80.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.6. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 80.5. Modest pay, about $62,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 34%, tops Quebec (29%). More adults drink heavily, 25% to the province’s 22%.
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.
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
The region comes 11th of 18 in Quebec, where life expectancy runs from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Kingsey Falls’ residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
59% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Quebec (56%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 68% very good or excellent to 64%; 20% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Kingsey Falls
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingsey Falls | 15 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Tingwick 8.5 km | 11 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Danville 9.6 km | 6.2 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Warwick 13 km | 12 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey 13 km | 21 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Val-des-Sources 14 km | 1.1 km | 57% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Albert 17 km | 14 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Danville’s life expectancy is 82.9, this region’s 81.6. Residents of Val-des-Sources live nearer a hospital, at 1.1 km against 15 km in Kingsey Falls.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Kingsey Falls itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Kingsey Falls
How healthy is Kingsey Falls?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Kingsey Falls from a hospital?
Residents of Kingsey Falls have a clinic 15 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.1 km away, in straight lines.
How is Kingsey Falls’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Kingsey Falls’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Kingsey Falls?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Kingsey Falls’ health region only: 83.3 years for women and 79.9 for men (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).