Health in Larouche · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 66% of adults around Larouche; the typical Canadian town: 52%
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.8, women 83.2 and men 80.4 (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 12 km from the average resident of Larouche, further than the usual 3.7 km. Larouche grades A for health.
Distance is Larouche’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 13 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Larouche 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.
Very good or excellent health (66%)Better than almost every Canadian town
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 67% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 89% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.8)Better than 72% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (12 km)Better than 50% 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.
Getting care
From Larouche, a hospital is 12 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Larouche’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
12 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
11 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
11 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Larouche that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
The region lives 1.4 years longer than its deprivation predicts
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Larouche’s region’s dot is above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Larouche’s region beats it: 81.8 years against the 80.4 the trend gives a score of 3.1. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 80.6 years. On income alone, around $69,000 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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9%
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
26%
Diabetes
9%
Obese (self-reported)
30%
Mood disorder
8.1%
Anxiety disorder
10%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
11%
Smoke every day
7.9%
Heavy drinking
29%
Flu shot in the past year
37%
Quebec
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 30% report obesity, the province 29%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (29% against 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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
81.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.6
more years expected at 65
9th
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 9th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.6
Economic dependency2.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.2
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Larouche’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.
Health survey
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 64% very good or excellent, against 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
64%
Health fair or poor
9.4%
Mental health very good or excellent
72%
Mental health fair or poor
5.2%
Most days quite a bit stressful
14%
Strong sense of belonging
69%
Satisfied with life
92%
Quebec
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 72% very good or excellent to 64%, with 14% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Larouche
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
One health region covers Larouche and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Alma is the closest to care, 2.8 km to Larouche’s 12 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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 Larouche’s own.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
Questions about health in Larouche
How healthy is Larouche?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Larouche from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Larouche live: 11 km to a clinic, 11 km to a pharmacy.
How is Larouche’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Larouche: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Larouche?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.2 for women, 80.4 for men around Larouche (2022/2024).
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