Health in La Conception · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
60% of adults around La Conception call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Across the region, life runs to 82.2 years on average: women 83.7, men 80.8, in 2022/2024. Measured from where La Conception’s residents live, a hospital is 32 km away on average and 100% of them are over 30 km out. The Health grade for La Conception is A−.
Residents of La Conception live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (32 km from its centre of population), and 100% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run low
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 19% of adults, diabetes for 8.1%. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Health Grade
La Conception 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 (60%)Better than 89% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (13%)Better than 98% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 80% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (82.2)Better than 77% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (32 km)Better than 9% 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from La Conception: 32 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of La Conception, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
32 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
10 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
10 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, La Conception is on the far side.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.1% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
19%
Arthritis
18%
Diabetes
8.1%
Obese (self-reported)
29%
Mood disorder
9.4%
Anxiety disorder
11%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
11%
Smoke every day
8.4%
Heavy drinking
23%
Flu shot in the past year
29%
Quebec
At 29%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 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.
For its deprivation
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.0 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; La Conception’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and La Conception’s region, at 2.9, should live about 81.2 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.2. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure is 80.9 years. A household income of about $81,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (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.
The wider area
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.
82.2
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.3
more years expected at 65
7th
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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 7th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.4
Economic dependency3.6
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability2.6
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where La Conception’s 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 58% to 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
Health very good or excellent
58%
Health fair or poor
11%
Mental health very good or excellent
66%
Mental health fair or poor
8.9%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
52%
Satisfied with life
91%
Quebec
On mental health the region tracks Quebec, 66% 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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around La Conception
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry La Conception’s regional figures.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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 La Conception’s own.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Questions about health in La Conception
How far is La Conception from a hospital?
Residents of La Conception have a clinic 10 km away on average and a pharmacy 10 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is La Conception?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 13%.
What is the life expectancy in La Conception?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.7 for women, 80.8 for men around La Conception (2022/2024).
How is La Conception’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus La Conception’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
Photo: Stéphane Duquesne · CC BY-SA 3.0