Photo: Roncanada · CC BY-SA 4.0Health in L'Ancienne-Lorette beats almost every Canadian town
In the health survey, 62% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Quebec’s 57%. For L'Ancienne-Lorette itself the measure is access: 3.9 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for L'Ancienne-Lorette is A+, #26 of 503 in Quebec and #31 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in L'Ancienne-Lorette
More people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 10.1 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (61% as answered). Health survey ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 18% of adults, diabetes for 7.2%. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Born around L'Ancienne-Lorette, a child can expect 1.4 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.1 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of L'Ancienne-Lorette can reach 7.0 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.7 km off. Getting care ↓
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.
L'Ancienne-Lorette 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: #26 of 503 in Quebec and #31 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 61% to 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Neither ahead nor behind Quebec on mental health (66% to 64%), the region has 22% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
In the region, high blood pressure (18%) and diabetes (7.2%)
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 30% 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.
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
This region is 3rd longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale 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 L'Ancienne-Lorette’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.
The nearest hospital is 3.9 km from the average home in L'Ancienne-Lorette
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is L'Ancienne-Lorette’s own, not the region’s.
Against 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, L'Ancienne-Lorette sits near the middle.
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.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), L'Ancienne-Lorette’s region comes out on the trend.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and L'Ancienne-Lorette’s region fits it, 82.9 years at 2.3 against the line’s 83.4. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 82.9 years. A household income of about $75,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: L'Ancienne-Lorette comes 26th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 17,391 to 18,399 people, median 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bay-Cloverhill ON A | 17,591 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | Downtown Yonge East ON A | 18,251 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 3 | Schmidtville NS B+ | 18,105 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 24 | Edmundston NB C+ | 18,174 | 3.7 km | 48% |
| 25 | Listowel ON B | 18,168 | 3.8 km | 45% |
| 26 | L'Ancienne-Lorette QC A+ | 17,876 | 3.9 km | 62% |
| 27 | McKenzie Towne AB A+ | 17,757 | 4.0 km | 56% |
| 28 | Royal Oak BC A | 18,364 | 4.1 km | 48% |
| 40 | Lake Country BC B− | 17,637 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around L'Ancienne-Lorette
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Ancienne-Lorette | 3.9 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| L'Aéroport 3.1 km | 5.3 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Duberger—Les Saules 3.5 km | 2.8 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Des Châtels 4.1 km | 1.3 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Plateau 4.4 km | 1.7 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy 5.1 km | 3.1 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf 5.3 km | 2.8 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
Same region, same survey: L'Ancienne-Lorette’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for L'Ancienne-Lorette itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in L'Ancienne-Lorette
How healthy is L'Ancienne-Lorette?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
What is the life expectancy in L'Ancienne-Lorette?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.7 for women, 81.1 for men around L'Ancienne-Lorette (2022/2024).
How is L'Ancienne-Lorette’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so L'Ancienne-Lorette has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is L'Ancienne-Lorette from a hospital?
For everyday care, L'Ancienne-Lorette’s residents are 0.7 km from a pharmacy and 1.3 km from a clinic on average.
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).