Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, La Présentation is ahead of 88% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Quebec: 55% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 57%. Measured from where La Présentation’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 8.3 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives La Présentation a grade of A, #276 of 503 in Quebec and #805 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in La Présentation
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around La Présentation runs 1.0 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.5 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
La Présentation 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.
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: #276 of 503 in Quebec and #805 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 (21%) and diabetes (9.9%)
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 32%, 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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 6th 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes La Présentation’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and La Présentation’s region shows close to the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region La Présentation belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.7 predicts: 82.5 years, the trend 82.1. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 81.4.
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.
Getting to hospital from La Présentation: 8.3 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is La Présentation’s own, not the region’s.
La Présentation is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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.
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Mental health reads like the rest of Quebec: 64% against 64%, and 23% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: La Présentation comes 21st of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,657 to 2,736 people, median 8.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanna AB B− | 2,665 | 0.5 km | 52% |
| 2 | Sundre AB C+ | 2,683 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 2,671 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 19 | Swan Valley West MB C+ | 2,702 | 8.0 km | 51% |
| 20 | Saint-Bernard QC A− | 2,680 | 8.3 km | 59% |
| 21 | La Présentation QC A | 2,696 | 8.3 km | 55% |
| 22 | Bouctouche NB C+ | 2,678 | 11 km | 43% |
| 23 | Macamic QC B− | 2,698 | 12 km | 57% |
| 40 | Waskaganish QC | 2,726 | 132 km | – |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around La Présentation
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Présentation | 8.3 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Sainte-Madeleine 7.2 km | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Hyacinthe 7.7 km | 2.1 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Sainte-Marie-Madeleine 8.9 km | 12 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Barnabé-Sud 11 km | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu 11 km | 17 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Jude 13 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
The neighbours all sit in La Présentation’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu is the furthest from care, 17 km to La Présentation’s 8.3 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: La Présentation shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
Questions about health in La Présentation
How is La Présentation’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far La Présentation’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is La Présentation?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in La Présentation?
Women in La Présentation’s region live to 84.2 on average and men to 80.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is La Présentation from a hospital?
A clinic is 7.3 km from the average resident of La Présentation and a pharmacy 7.5 km, as the crow flies.
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).