Health in La Macaza · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
La Macaza scores better for health than 93% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 60% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and La Macaza’s is long: 12 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives La Macaza a grade of A.
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 8.0 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 58% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in La Macaza the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 10 km. Getting care ↓
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 ↓
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 Macaza 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 (12 km)Better than 52% 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.
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
For 20% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 66% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Quebec’s 64%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (8.1%)
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
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.
Getting care
From La Macaza, a hospital is 12 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of La Macaza, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
12 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
13 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
9.3 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 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 La Macaza travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
1.0 years above the line for regions this deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; La Macaza’s region’s dot is above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet La Macaza’s region beats it: 82.2 years against the 81.2 the trend gives a score of 2.9. Of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, not one does as well; half fall below 80.9. Modest pay, about $81,000 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.
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 instability3.6
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.0
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; La Macaza’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Neighbours
Health in the places around La Macaza
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Nothing in the regional columns separates La Macaza from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Residents of Labelle live further from a hospital, at 21 km against 12 km in La Macaza.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to La Macaza alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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.
Questions about health in La Macaza
How healthy is La Macaza?
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%.
How far is La Macaza from a hospital?
A clinic is 13 km from the average resident of La Macaza and a pharmacy 9.3 km, as the crow flies.
How is La Macaza’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 Macaza’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in La Macaza?
There is no figure for La Macaza alone; its health region’s is 83.7 for women and 80.8 for men in 2022/2024.
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