Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Lacolle sits a long way from hospital care: 30 km for the average resident
Self-rated health is ordinary for Quebec: 55% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 57%. A pharmacy is nearer: 1.4 km on average, with 1.7 within 3 km of the typical home. The Health grade for Lacolle is B+, #415 of 503 in Quebec and #1,284 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Lacolle
Less chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 9.9%. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Lacolle’s region sits 1.0 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.5 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Lacolle 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: #415 of 503 in Quebec and #1,284 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%)
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
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 32% report obesity, the province 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.
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 6th 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 Lacolle’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.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Lacolle’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Lacolle belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.7 predicts: 82.5 years, the trend 82.1. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 7, with 81.4 years in the middle.
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.
Everyday care in Lacolle: the nearest pharmacy 1.4 km away, 1.7 within 3 km
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Lacolle’s own, not the region’s.
Lacolle 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.
54% 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
The region’s 64% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Quebec’s 64%, with 23% reporting stressful days.
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: Lacolle comes 34th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,766 to 2,845 people, median 7.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kuujjuaq QC | 2,766 | 0.7 km | – |
| 2 | Forestville QC B+ | 2,835 | 0.9 km | 61% |
| 3 | Grimshaw AB C− | 2,799 | 1.3 km | 48% |
| 32 | Rougemont QC A− | 2,832 | 20 km | 55% |
| 33 | Vars ON A− | 2,767 | 23 km | 56% |
| 34 | Lacolle QC B+ | 2,806 | 30 km | 55% |
| 35 | Laurier-Station QC B | 2,838 | 32 km | 59% |
| 36 | Addington Highlands ON B− | 2,827 | 36 km | 53% |
| 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 Lacolle
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lacolle | 30 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Noyan 5.9 km | 31 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix 6.2 km | 24 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle 8.6 km | 32 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville 10 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Napierville 13 km | 19 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu 15 km | 14 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
Only the hospital column is local here: Lacolle and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu live nearer a hospital, at 14 km against 30 km in Lacolle.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Lacolle alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Lacolle
How far is Lacolle from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Lacolle live: 1.6 km to a clinic, 1.4 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Lacolle?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Lacolle?
For the health region that includes Lacolle, women can expect 84.2 years and men 80.8 (2022/2024).
How is Lacolle’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Lacolle’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).