Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Few places match Duvernay for health: it beats 88% of Canadian towns
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 53% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. Measured from where Duvernay’s residents live, a hospital is 2.6 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. Duvernay grades A for health, #269 of 503 in Quebec and #792 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Duvernay
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Duvernay runs 2.6 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.8 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
Regions scoring 2.6 on the deprivation index typically live 82.2 years; Duvernay’s region, at 84.1, does better. For its deprivation ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 6.5 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.2 km off, Duvernay is well served for prescriptions. 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.
Duvernay 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: #269 of 503 in Quebec and #792 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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Top of the 18 regions in Quebec: the lowest figure is 65.2, 18.9 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Duvernay’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.
1.9 more years of life than regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Duvernay’s region comes out above the trend.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Duvernay’s region, at 2.6, outlives the trend’s 82.2 years with 84.1. Of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, not one does as well; half fall below 81.4.
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.
From Duvernay, a hospital is 2.6 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Duvernay’s own, not the region’s.
Duvernay is closer in 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 13% diabetes
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: 31% report obesity, the province 29%. Heavy drinking runs under the province, 13% to 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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 53% to 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
On mental health the region tracks Quebec, 63% very good or excellent to 64%; 23% 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.
Duvernay is 19th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 34,965 to 40,297 people, median 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Pleasant BC A+ | 37,091 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 2 | Côte-Saint-Luc QC A | 37,901 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 3 | Yaletown BC A+ | 40,297 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 17 | Vellore ON A | 39,490 | 2.3 km | 51% |
| 18 | Hastings-Sunrise BC A+ | 36,072 | 2.5 km | 50% |
| 19 | Duvernay QC A | 37,460 | 2.6 km | 53% |
| 20 | Le Boisé Champêtre QC A | 37,891 | 2.6 km | 53% |
| 21 | Metrotown BC A | 36,594 | 2.7 km | 48% |
| 40 | West Kelowna BC B | 40,274 | 8.5 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Duvernay
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duvernay | 2.6 km | 53% | 84.1 | A |
| Saint-Vincent-de-Paul 2.2 km | 2.0 km | 53% | 84.1 | A |
| Vimont 3.7 km | 1.3 km | 53% | 84.1 | A |
| Centre-Nord (Montréal-Nord) 3.8 km | 1.9 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Centre (Montréal-Nord) 4.5 km | 1.7 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Est (Montréal-Nord) 4.6 km | 1.1 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Ouest (Montréal-Nord) 4.6 km | 0.8 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Centre-Nord (Montréal-Nord)’s life expectancy is 83.4, this region’s 84.1.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Duvernay’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Duvernay
What is the life expectancy in Duvernay?
There is no figure for Duvernay alone; its health region’s is 85.7 for women and 82.4 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Duvernay’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Duvernay has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Duvernay?
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 16%.
How far is Duvernay from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Duvernay is 1.5 km from a clinic and 1.2 km from a pharmacy.
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).