Health in Lac Simon · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
The nearest hospital is 33 km from the average home in Lac Simon
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Quebec, 57% against 57%. For everyday care, the nearest pharmacy is 33 km away on average (0.0 within 3 km). As a First Nations reserve, Lac Simon can be graded for health but gets no overall grade and no place in ranked lists. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Lac Simon itself. Health gives Lac Simon a grade of C+.
Lac Simon’s region sits 2.0 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.2 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Lac Simon than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 14% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
Picking up a prescription in Lac Simon takes a trip of 33 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
More people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 5.7 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 56%. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Lac Simon grades C+ for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
Very good or excellent health (57%)Better than 82% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 68% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 26% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.5)Better than 34% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (33 km)Better than 8% of Canadian towns
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.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 regions in Quebec
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Quebec, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
79.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.2
more years expected at 65
14th
longest of 18 regions in Quebec
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Région de Laval84.1
Région de Montréal83.4
Région de la Capitale-Nationale82.9
Région de l'Estrie82.9
Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches82.8
Région de la Montérégie82.5
Région des Laurentides82.2
Région de Lanaudière82.0
Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean81.8
Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent81.7
Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec81.6
Région de l'Outaouais80.7
Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine79.9
Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue79.5
Région de la Côte-Nord79.4
Région du Nord-du-Québec78.1
Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James76.8
Région du Nunavik65.2
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 14th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.3
Economic dependency3.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
This is the one part of the block measured for Lac Simon itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Conditions and habits
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.8% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
21%
Arthritis
20%
Diabetes
9.8%
Obese (self-reported)
37%
Mood disorder
10%
Anxiety disorder
14%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
25%
Flu shot in the past year
28%
Quebec
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 37% of adults against 29% for 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.
Getting care
Pharmacies around Lac Simon: 0.0 within 3 km, the nearest 33 km away
Straight-line distances from each part of Lac Simon, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
33 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
33 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
33 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Residents of Lac Simon 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.
56% 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
Health very good or excellent
56%
Health fair or poor
14%
Mental health very good or excellent
65%
Mental health fair or poor
8.9%
Most days quite a bit stressful
18%
Strong sense of belonging
61%
Satisfied with life
91%
Quebec
On mental health the region tracks Quebec, 65% 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.
For its deprivation
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Lac Simon’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Lac Simon’s region fits it, 79.5 years at 3.5 against the line’s 79.0. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 8 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 78.7 years.
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.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Lac Simon shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
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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.
Questions about health in Lac Simon
How far is Lac Simon from a hospital?
For everyday care, Lac Simon’s residents are 33 km from a pharmacy and 33 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Lac Simon?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
How is Lac Simon’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 Simon’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town. As a First Nations reserve it gets no overall grade, and the survey doesn’t interview people on reserves, so the regional figures don’t describe it.
What is the life expectancy in Lac Simon?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Lac Simon’s health region only: 81.6 years for women and 77.6 for men (2022/2024).
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