Photo: essede · CC BY-SA 3.0A hospital trip from Lac-Etchemin means 31 km on average, in a straight line
Across the region, 59% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Quebec (57%). A pharmacy is nearer: 2.8 km on average, with 0.6 within 3 km of the typical home. Lac-Etchemin grades B for health, #452 of 503 in Quebec and #1,604 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Lac-Etchemin
Upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 7.2 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 57% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Lac-Etchemin, a child can expect 1.3 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.0 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Lac-Etchemin 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: #452 of 503 in Quebec and #1,604 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 57% and 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 69% very good or excellent to 64%; 18% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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 5th 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Lac-Etchemin’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.
0.8 more years of life than regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Lac-Etchemin’s region comes out above the trend.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Lac-Etchemin’s region sits above it: 82.8 years where a score of 2.7 predicts 82.0. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 81.4 years. On income alone, around $75,000 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.2%)
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
At 31%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 29%. More adults drink heavily, 26% to the province’s 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.
Everyday care in Lac-Etchemin: the nearest pharmacy 2.8 km away, 0.6 within 3 km
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Lac-Etchemin’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Lac-Etchemin 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Lac-Etchemin comes 39th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,028 to 4,151 people, median 6.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McCauley AB B+ | 4,060 | 0.5 km | 51% |
| 2 | Swan River MB B− | 4,048 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Centremount ON B | 4,053 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 37 | Haut-Madawaska NB C− | 4,098 | 23 km | 48% |
| 38 | Northern Lights County AB D− | 4,115 | 25 km | 48% |
| 39 | Lac-Etchemin QC B | 4,089 | 31 km | 59% |
| 40 | Mistissini QC | 4,067 | 66 km | – |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Lac-Etchemin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Etchemin | 31 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Sainte-Justine 11 km | 41 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne 13 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Léon-de-Standon 13 km | 32 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Saint-Benjamin 18 km | 17 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Lac-Etchemin’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Lac-Etchemin itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
Questions about health in Lac-Etchemin
How far is Lac-Etchemin from a hospital?
Residents of Lac-Etchemin have a clinic 2.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 2.8 km away, in straight lines.
How is Lac-Etchemin’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-Etchemin’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Lac-Etchemin?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Lac-Etchemin?
Women in Lac-Etchemin’s region live to 84.4 on average and men to 81.3, 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).