Health in La Doré · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
More adults feel healthy around La Doré: 66% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
Women in the region live to 83.2 and men to 80.4, 81.8 years taken together (2022/2024). Measured from where La Doré’s residents live, a hospital is 35 km away on average and 100% of them are over 30 km out. The Health grade for La Doré is B+.
Residents of La Doré live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (34 km from its centre of population), and 100% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 17 km from the average home in La Doré, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.0 out of 5, La Doré sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
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 Doré 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.
Very good or excellent health (66%)Better than almost every Canadian town
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 67% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 89% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.8)Better than 72% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (35 km)Better than 6% 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
The nearest hospital is 35 km from the average home in La Doré
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is La Doré’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
35 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
3.0 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
17 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
La Doré is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
81.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.6
more years expected at 65
9th
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 9th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.0
Economic dependency4.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability4.0
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas La Doré’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Ahead of regions as deprived by 1.4 years of life
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and La Doré’s region shows above the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.1 on the index, the line expects 80.4 years; La Doré’s region reaches 81.8. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (9 of 10), with a median of 80.6. A household income of about $69,000, 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.
Conditions and habits
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9% 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
21%
Arthritis
26%
Diabetes
9%
Obese (self-reported)
30%
Mood disorder
8.1%
Anxiety disorder
10%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
11%
Smoke every day
7.9%
Heavy drinking
29%
Flu shot in the past year
37%
Quebec
Obesity tracks the province: 30% of adults here, 29% across Quebec. Heavy drinking is commoner too (29% against 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.
Health survey
More people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 64% 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
64%
Health fair or poor
9.4%
Mental health very good or excellent
72%
Mental health fair or poor
5.2%
Most days quite a bit stressful
14%
Strong sense of belonging
69%
Satisfied with life
92%
Quebec
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 72% very good or excellent to 64%; 14% 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 Doré
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 Doré’s regional figures.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
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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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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to La Doré alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in La Doré
How healthy is La Doré?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How far is La Doré from a hospital?
For everyday care, La Doré’s residents are 17 km from a pharmacy and 3.0 km from a clinic on average.
How is La Doré’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so La Doré has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in La Doré?
For the health region that includes La Doré, women can expect 83.2 years and men 80.4 (2022/2024).
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