Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.055% of adults around Les Cèdres rate their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 82.5 years (84.2 for women, 80.8 for men, 2022/2024). What sets Les Cèdres apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 11 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Les Cèdres a grade of A−, #313 of 503 in Quebec and #930 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Les Cèdres
A long way to hospital
Residents of Les Cèdres live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (9.6 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Les Cèdres runs 1.0 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.5 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Les Cèdres 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: #313 of 503 in Quebec and #930 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 Les Cèdres: 11 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Les Cèdres’ own, not the region’s.
From Les Cèdres 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.9% diabetes
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 32%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 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
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 6th of 18 in Quebec, where life expectancy runs from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Les Cèdres’ 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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Les Cèdres’ region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Les Cèdres belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.7 predicts: 82.5 years, the trend 82.1. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (7 of 10, median 81.4 years).
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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 54% 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
For 23% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 64% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Quebec’s 64%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Les Cèdres is 32nd nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,997 to 7,290 people, median 4.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raleigh ON B | 7,113 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 2 | Inglewood AB B+ | 7,167 | 1.1 km | 51% |
| 3 | La Sarre QC B | 7,199 | 1.2 km | 57% |
| 30 | Electoral Area C, East Kootenay BC B | 7,006 | 10 km | 57% |
| 31 | Fairwinds BC B− | 7,125 | 11 km | 47% |
| 32 | Les Cèdres QC A− | 7,145 | 11 km | 55% |
| 33 | Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh ON B− | 7,052 | 12 km | 45% |
| 34 | Shannon QC A+ | 7,088 | 13 km | 62% |
| 40 | Algoma, Unorganized, North Part ON D− | 7,008 | 25 km | 46% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Les Cèdres
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Cèdres | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Pointe-des-Cascades 7.1 km | 15 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Vaudreuil-Dorion 8.3 km | 17 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Salaberry-de-Valleyfield 8.3 km | 2.6 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Pincourt 8.7 km | 14 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Coteau-du-Lac 8.9 km | 6.2 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Terrasse-Vaudreuil 9.4 km | 14 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
Only the hospital column is local here: Les Cèdres and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield live nearer a hospital, at 2.6 km against 11 km in Les Cèdres.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Les Cèdres 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
Questions about health in Les Cèdres
How is Les Cèdres’ Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Les Cèdres’ own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Les Cèdres from a hospital?
Residents of Les Cèdres have a clinic 4.0 km away on average and a pharmacy 2.7 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Les Cèdres?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Les Cèdres?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.2 for women, 80.8 for men around Les Cèdres (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).