Photo: MTLskyline · CC BY-SA 3.0Few places match Lac-Brome for health: it beats 89% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 57%; Quebec as a whole is at 57%. Measured from where Lac-Brome’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 14 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Lac-Brome grades A for health, #251 of 503 in Quebec and #709 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Lac-Brome
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
At 82.9 years, Lac-Brome’s region outlives the 81.0 that regions scoring 3.0 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Lac-Brome the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 14 km. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 19% of adults, diabetes for 9.1%. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Lac-Brome’s region sits 1.4 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.2 years ahead (2022/2024). 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.
Lac-Brome 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: #251 of 503 in Quebec and #709 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.9 years more here
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Lac-Brome’s lies above the line.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.0, Lac-Brome’s region would be expected to reach 81.0 years; it reaches 82.9. It outlives 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 80.4 years. Households here earn around $67,000, 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.
The nearest hospital is 14 km from the average home in Lac-Brome
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Lac-Brome’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Lac-Brome 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.
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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.1%
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
Obesity tracks the province: 29% of adults here, 29% across Quebec.
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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 3rd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Lac-Brome’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
56% 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 is close to the province’s: 63% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 20% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Lac-Brome comes 29th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,199 to 6,411 people, median 4.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beasley ON B+ | 6,338 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Neepawa MB B− | 6,328 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Cherry Hill ON A | 6,304 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 27 | Mildmay ON C+ | 6,247 | 11 km | 48% |
| 28 | Fitzroy ON A | 6,400 | 13 km | 56% |
| 29 | Lac-Brome QC A | 6,307 | 14 km | 57% |
| 30 | Princeville QC A− | 6,400 | 14 km | 61% |
| 31 | Munster - Ashton ON A | 6,372 | 14 km | 56% |
| 40 | Lanark Highlands ON C+ | 6,370 | 21 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Lac-Brome
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Brome | 14 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Waterloo 12 km | 17 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Bromont 13 km | 11 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Bolton-Est 16 km | 16 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Shefford 16 km | 10 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Sutton 16 km | 15 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Stukely-Sud 17 km | 22 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
Same region, same survey: Lac-Brome’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Stukely-Sud live further from a hospital, at 22 km against 14 km in Lac-Brome.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- 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 Lac-Brome’s own.
Questions about health in Lac-Brome
How is Lac-Brome’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Lac-Brome’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Lac-Brome?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
How far is Lac-Brome from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Lac-Brome live: 3.8 km to a clinic, 4.4 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Lac-Brome?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Lac-Brome’s health region only: 84.8 years for women and 81.0 for men (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).