Photo: François Lambert · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 61% of adults around L'Avenir; the typical Canadian town: 52%
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.6 years at birth, 83.3 for women and 79.9 for men. Measured from where L'Avenir’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 18 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. L'Avenir grades B+ for health.
What stands out about health in L'Avenir
A long way to hospital
Distance is L'Avenir’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 18 km. Getting care ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.2, the trend across regions gives 80.0 years of life; L'Avenir’s region reaches 81.6. For its deprivation ↓
Long-term conditions run low
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.
L'Avenir 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.
Getting to hospital from L'Avenir: 18 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of L'Avenir, weighted by who lives there.
From L'Avenir 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: 1.6 years ahead of the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), L'Avenir’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 L'Avenir belongs to reaches 81.6. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 80.5 years. On income alone, around $62,000 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.2%
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
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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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
This region is 11th longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where L'Avenir’s residents live; they carry no weight in 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%
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 is ahead of Quebec, 68% very good or excellent to 64%; 20% 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.
Health in the places around L'Avenir
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Avenir | 18 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey 7.5 km | 21 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Lucien 12 km | 14 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Durham-Sud 13 km | 27 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Wickham 15 km | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Richmond 17 km | 21 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Cleveland 18 km | 18 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
Richmond falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 82.9 against 81.6 here.
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 L'Avenir’s own.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- 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. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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 L'Avenir
How healthy is L'Avenir?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
How is L'Avenir’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so L'Avenir has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is L'Avenir from a hospital?
Residents of L'Avenir have a clinic 13 km away on average and a pharmacy 13 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in L'Avenir?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.3 for women, 79.9 for men around L'Avenir (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).