Photo: Municipalitelapeche · CC BY-SA 4.0La Pêche’s health region counts 17% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 12%
Self-rated health is ordinary for Quebec: 55% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 57%. Closer to home, a hospital is 7.1 km from the average resident of La Pêche, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for La Pêche is B, #468 of 503 in Quebec and #1,790 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in La Pêche
Long-term conditions run low
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 18% report high blood pressure and 8.6% diabetes. 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.
La Pêche 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. Its place: #468 of 503 in Quebec and #1,790 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (18%) and diabetes (8.6%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Self-reported obesity, 34%, tops Quebec (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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding La Pêche’s lies near the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and La Pêche’s region, at 3.1, should live about 80.5 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 80.7, near enough. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 80.7 years.
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.
From La Pêche, a hospital is 7.1 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is La Pêche’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, La Pêche is on the far side. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 3.0 km, while the average resident is 7.1 km away.
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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Ranked 12th of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for La Pêche’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
55% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (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
Mental health trails Quebec: 59% very good or excellent to 64%, with 21% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
La Pêche is 30th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 9,188 to 9,557 people, median 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rustic ON A | 9,543 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 2 | Danforth ON A | 9,364 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 3 | Downtown Commercial Core AB A+ | 9,286 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 28 | Riverbend AB A | 9,193 | 5.9 km | 56% |
| 29 | Vankleek Hill ON C+ | 9,321 | 7.0 km | 49% |
| 30 | La Pêche QC B | 9,379 | 7.1 km | 55% |
| 31 | Fall River NS B | 9,214 | 7.3 km | 51% |
| 32 | Boischatel QC A+ | 9,250 | 8.7 km | 62% |
| 40 | Saint-Apollinaire QC B+ | 9,218 | 22 km | 59% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around La Pêche
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 Pêche from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Low is the furthest from care, 20 km to La Pêche’s 7.1 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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 Pêche’s own.
Questions about health in La Pêche
How is La Pêche’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and La Pêche’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is La Pêche?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in La Pêche?
Women in La Pêche’s region live to 82.2 on average and men to 79.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is La Pêche from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in La Pêche is 5.0 km from a clinic and 8.3 km from a pharmacy.
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).