Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.056% of adults around Lavaltrie rate their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 83.7 and men to 80.3, 82.0 years taken together (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 18 km from the average resident of Lavaltrie, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Lavaltrie is B, #455 of 503 in Quebec and #1,643 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Lavaltrie
A long way to hospital
Residents of Lavaltrie live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (19 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
At 82.0 years, Lavaltrie’s region outlives the 80.3 that regions scoring 3.1 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Less chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 21% report high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Lavaltrie 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. Its place: #455 of 503 in Quebec and #1,643 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.
Getting to hospital from Lavaltrie: 18 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Lavaltrie, weighted by who lives there.
From Lavaltrie that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 1.7 years ahead of the trend
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Lavaltrie’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.1, Lavaltrie’s region would be expected to reach 80.3 years; it reaches 82.0. Of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, not one does as well; half fall below 80.9. The towns here bring in about $81,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% 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
More adults report obesity than across Quebec: 33%, the province 29%.
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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 8th place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Lavaltrie’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.
55% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (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
Neither ahead nor behind Quebec on mental health (64% to 64%), the region has 20% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Lavaltrie comes 40th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (15,610 to 16,386 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Toronto ON A | 16,007 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Trinity-Bellwoods ON A | 15,691 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | Saint-Sauveur QC A+ | 16,104 | 0.7 km | 62% |
| 38 | Severn ON B | 15,716 | 13 km | 54% |
| 39 | Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines QC A | 15,904 | 14 km | 60% |
| 40 | Lavaltrie QC B | 15,996 | 18 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Lavaltrie
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lavaltrie | 18 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Contrecoeur 5.8 km | 22 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Sulpice 8.2 km | 16 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu 10 km | 17 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Lanoraie 10 km | 14 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| L'Assomption 11 km | 14 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Ours 11 km | 18 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
Across a regional line, Contrecoeur has its own figures: life expectancy 82.5, against 82.0 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Lavaltrie’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Lavaltrie
How is Lavaltrie’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Lavaltrie has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Lavaltrie from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Lavaltrie is 1.9 km from a clinic and 1.7 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Lavaltrie?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Lavaltrie?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Lavaltrie’s health region only: 83.7 years for women and 80.3 for men (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).