Photo: busand2003 · CC BY 3.059% of adults around L'Islet call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Lives in the region last 82.8 years on average (2022/2024): 84.4 for women, 81.3 for men. What sets L'Islet apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 11 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives L'Islet a grade of A−, #357 of 503 in Quebec and #1,037 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in L'Islet
Far from a hospital
Distance is L'Islet’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 10 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around L'Islet, a child can expect 1.3 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.0 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
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'Islet 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: #357 of 503 in Quebec and #1,037 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.
The nearest hospital is 11 km from the average home in L'Islet
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is L'Islet’s own, not the region’s.
L'Islet is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 5th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes L'Islet’s 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 0.8 years more here
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for L'Islet’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.7, the expected figure is 82.0 years, and L'Islet’s region does better with 82.8. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (9 of 10), with a median of 81.4. On income alone, around $75,000 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.2% 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
Self-reported obesity, 31%, sits within a few points of Quebec (29%). Heavy drinking runs above the province, 26% to 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 57% 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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 69% very good or excellent to 64%; 18% 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: L'Islet comes 27th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,804 to 3,946 people, median 4.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City Park SK A− | 3,827 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Fort Macleod AB B | 3,945 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Cardston AB B | 3,863 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 25 | Livingston AB A | 3,929 | 8.2 km | 56% |
| 26 | Corkery ON A | 3,822 | 10 km | 56% |
| 27 | L'Islet QC A− | 3,874 | 11 km | 59% |
| 28 | Saint-Maurice QC A− | 3,804 | 11 km | 61% |
| 29 | Electoral Area F, East Kootenay BC B | 3,893 | 11 km | 57% |
| 40 | Forty Mile County No. 8 AB C | 3,927 | 29 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around L'Islet
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Islet | 11 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Cap-Saint-Ignace 12 km | 2.4 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
| Saint-Jean-Port-Joli 14 km | 23 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Aubert 15 km | 24 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry L'Islet’s regional figures. Residents of Saint-Aubert live further from a hospital, at 24 km against 11 km in L'Islet.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to L'Islet alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in L'Islet
How is L'Islet’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus L'Islet’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is L'Islet?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How far is L'Islet from a hospital?
Residents of L'Islet have a clinic 11 km away on average and a pharmacy 14 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in L'Islet?
Women in L'Islet’s region live to 84.4 on average and men to 81.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).