Photo: Interaction Qui Ltée · Public domainLabrecque’s health region reports 66% in very good or excellent health, ahead of the typical Canadian town’s 52%
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.8 years at birth, 83.2 for women and 80.4 for men. Measured from where Labrecque’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 18 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Labrecque grades A− for health.
What stands out about health in Labrecque
A long way to hospital
Distance is Labrecque’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 17 km. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Labrecque at 4.2 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. 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.
Labrecque 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.
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 to hospital from Labrecque: 18 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Labrecque’s own, not the region’s.
Labrecque 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.
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 9th 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 Labrecque’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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.4 years
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Labrecque’s region’s dot is above the line.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Labrecque’s region, at 3.1, outlives the trend’s 80.4 years with 81.8. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 9 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 80.6 years. Households here earn around $69,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (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
Self-reported obesity, 30%, sits within a few points of Quebec (29%). At 29%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 64% very good or excellent, against 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (72% against 64%), while 14% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Labrecque
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labrecque | 18 km | 66% | 81.8 | A− |
| Saint-Nazaire 11 km | 9.2 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| L'Ascension-de-Notre-Seigneur 12 km | 17 km | 66% | 81.8 | A− |
| Alma 17 km | 2.8 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Saint-Ambroise 18 km | 18 km | 66% | 81.8 | A− |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Labrecque’s regional figures. Residents of Alma live nearer a hospital, at 2.8 km against 18 km in Labrecque.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Labrecque alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Labrecque
How healthy is Labrecque?
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 15%.
How far is Labrecque from a hospital?
A clinic is 2.0 km from the average resident of Labrecque and a pharmacy 14 km, as the crow flies.
How is Labrecque’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 Labrecque’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Labrecque?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.2 for women, 80.4 for men around Labrecque (2022/2024).
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).