Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Labelle scores better for health than 85% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 60% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. What sets Labelle apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 21 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Labelle a grade of A, #304 of 503 in Quebec and #913 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Labelle
Far from a hospital
Distance is Labelle’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 21 km. Getting care ↓
Self-rated health runs high
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 8.0 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 58%. Health survey ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Labelle’s neighbourhoods average 4.1 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Labelle 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: #304 of 503 in Quebec and #913 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.
The nearest hospital is 21 km from the average home in Labelle
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Labelle’s own, not the region’s.
Labelle 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.
58% 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Quebec (66% against 64%), while 20% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.1% diabetes
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
Self-reported obesity, 29%, sits within a few points of 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.
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 7th 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 Labelle’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.0 years more here
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Labelle’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Labelle’s region beats it: 82.2 years against the 81.2 the trend gives a score of 2.9. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, none lives longer; the middle of the group is 80.9 years. On income alone, around $81,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (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.
Labelle is 31st of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,827 to 2,893 people, median 5.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westmount SK A− | 2,872 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 2 | Forestville QC B+ | 2,835 | 0.9 km | 61% |
| 3 | McKernan AB B+ | 2,880 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 29 | Perry ON D | 2,866 | 20 km | 47% |
| 30 | Rougemont QC A− | 2,832 | 20 km | 55% |
| 31 | Labelle QC A | 2,861 | 21 km | 60% |
| 32 | Head of St Margarets Bay NS B− | 2,885 | 22 km | 51% |
| 33 | Saint-Anicet QC B+ | 2,854 | 23 km | 55% |
| 40 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints QC B | 2,841 | 76 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Labelle
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labelle | 21 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| La Conception 13 km | 32 km | 60% | 82.2 | A− |
| La Minerve 16 km | 20 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| La Macaza 17 km | 12 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Mont-Tremblant 19 km | 25 km | 60% | 82.2 | A− |
Only the hospital column is local here: Labelle and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. La Conception is the furthest from care, 32 km to Labelle’s 21 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- 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. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Labelle alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Labelle
How far is Labelle from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Labelle live: 3.6 km to a clinic, 3.5 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Labelle?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 13% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Labelle’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Labelle: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Labelle?
Women in Labelle’s region live to 83.7 on average and men to 80.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).