Health in Les Escoumins · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 61% of adults around Les Escoumins; the typical Canadian town: 52%
A baby born in the region can expect 79.4 years, 82.1 for a girl and 77.0 for a boy (2022/2024). What sets Les Escoumins apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 2.4 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Les Escoumins is B+.
Life expectancy in the region around Les Escoumins runs 2.1 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.4 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More smokers
Around Les Escoumins, 11% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Les Escoumins at 4.6 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 22% of adults, diabetes for 9.1%. 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.
Health Grade
Les Escoumins 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.
Very good or excellent health (61%)Better than 93% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 80% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 26% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.4)Better than 32% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (2.4 km)Better than 83% of Canadian towns
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.
The wider area
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.
79.4
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.4
more years expected at 65
15th
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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 15th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.7
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability4.6
This is the one part of the block measured for Les Escoumins itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Conditions and habits
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.1% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
22%
Arthritis
21%
Diabetes
9.1%
Obese (self-reported)
37%
Mood disorder
7.5%
Anxiety disorder
10%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
25%
Flu shot in the past year
29%
Quebec
At 37%, 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.
For its deprivation
Ahead of regions as deprived by 1.2 years of life
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Les Escoumins’ lies above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.7 on the index, the line expects 78.2 years; Les Escoumins’ region reaches 79.4. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 8 of 10; their median is 78.2 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Les Escoumins: 2.4 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Les Escoumins, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
2.4 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
3.0 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
2.8 km
residents’ average distance
0.7 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 Les Escoumins 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. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 0.3 km, while the average resident is 2.4 km away.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 59% and 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
59%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
70%
Mental health fair or poor
6.6%
Most days quite a bit stressful
16%
Strong sense of belonging
73%
Satisfied with life
91%
Quebec
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (70% against 64%), while 16% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Les Escoumins’ own.
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Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
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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.
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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.
Questions about health in Les Escoumins
How healthy is Les Escoumins?
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 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Les Escoumins?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Les Escoumins’ health region only: 82.1 years for women and 77.0 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Les Escoumins from a hospital?
For everyday care, Les Escoumins’ residents are 2.8 km from a pharmacy and 3.0 km from a clinic on average.
How is Les Escoumins’ Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Les Escoumins’ own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
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