Photo: DomLemLali · CC BY-SA 4.061% of adults around Laurierville call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
A baby born in the region can expect 81.6 years, 83.3 for a girl and 79.9 for a boy (2022/2024). What sets Laurierville apart within its region is distance: 34 km to a hospital on average, over 30 km for 100% of residents. The Health grade for Laurierville is B.
What stands out about health in Laurierville
Far from a hospital
Distance is Laurierville’s own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 33 km. Getting care ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.2, would put Laurierville’s region near 80.0 years; it reaches 81.6. For its deprivation ↓
Less chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 8.2%. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Laurierville 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.
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.
From Laurierville, a hospital is 34 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Laurierville, weighted by who lives there.
Laurierville 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.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 1.6 years of life
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Laurierville’s region comes out above the trend.
At 3.2 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 80.0 years, and the region Laurierville belongs to reaches 81.6. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 7 of them below it, a median of 80.5. Its towns’ household income, about $62,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%)
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 34%, self-reported obesity is above Quebec’s 29%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 11th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Laurierville 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 59% 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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (68% against 64%), while 20% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Laurierville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurierville | 34 km | 61% | 81.6 | B |
| Plessisville 9.4 km | 24 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Lyster 11 km | 35 km | 61% | 81.6 | B |
| Plessisville 11 km | 22 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Val-Alain 15 km | 23 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
Val-Alain falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 82.8 against 81.6 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Laurierville shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
Questions about health in Laurierville
How far is Laurierville from a hospital?
For everyday care, Laurierville’s residents are 9.3 km from a pharmacy and 9.0 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Laurierville?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
How is Laurierville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Laurierville’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Laurierville?
For the health region that includes Laurierville, women can expect 83.3 years and men 79.9 (2022/2024).
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).