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–Not graded
Health in Laval · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
People in Laval’s health region live to 84.1 on average, 2.6 years beyond the typical Canadian town
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 53% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. Measured from where Laval’s residents live, a hospital is 3.1 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. The region has much the same share of smokers as Quebec, 12% of adults to 12%.
Laval’s region beats what its deprivation score of 2.6 predicts: 84.1 years against 82.2. For its deprivation ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 11 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.8 km off, Laval is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
No Health grade for Laval yet
What the grade will weigh: the region’s survey and life expectancy, and the town’s own distance to a hospital, each against Canadian towns.
53%
very good or excellent health, region (typical town 52%)
16%
chronic conditions, region (typical town 17%)
12%
smokers, region (typical town 12%)
84.1
life expectancy, region (typical town 81.5)
3.1 km
to a hospital, town’s residents (typical town 3.7 km)
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.
For its deprivation
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.9 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Laval’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.6, the expected figure is 82.2 years, and Laval’s region does better 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.
Getting care
From Laval, a hospital is 3.1 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Laval, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
3.1 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.0 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.8 km
residents’ average distance
11 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
Residents of Laval are closer than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 13%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
21%
Arthritis
16%
Diabetes
13%
Obese (self-reported)
31%
Mood disorder
9.1%
Anxiety disorder
9.7%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
9%
Heavy drinking
13%
Flu shot in the past year
28%
Quebec
Self-reported obesity, 31%, sits within a few points of Quebec (29%). Heavy drinking is rarer (13% 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
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.
84.1
years at birth, 2022/2024
21.8
more years expected at 65
1st
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
This is the longest-lived of the 18 regions in Quebec, 18.9 years ahead of the last at 65.2.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.1
Economic dependency2.5
Ethno-cultural composition4.0
Situational vulnerability2.6
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Laval’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
Self-rated health trails Quebec: 53% very good or excellent, against 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
Health very good or excellent
53%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
63%
Mental health fair or poor
9.6%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
56%
Satisfied with life
85%
Quebec
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 63% very good or excellent against 64% for Quebec; stress is a daily matter for 23%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Laval
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The neighbours all sit in Laval’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Laval shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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 Laval
Does Laval have a Health grade?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Laval has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Laval?
There is no figure for Laval alone; its health region’s is 85.7 for women and 82.4 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Laval?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
How far is Laval from a hospital?
For everyday care, Laval’s residents are 0.8 km from a pharmacy and 1.0 km from a clinic on average.
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