Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0Smoking runs high around Listuguj: 18% of adults, the typical Canadian town 12%
Across the region, 56% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Quebec (57%). The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Listuguj live 3.5 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Listuguj is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Listuguj itself. Health gives Listuguj a grade of B−.
What stands out about health in Listuguj
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 4.1, the trend across regions gives 76.8 years of life; Listuguj’s region reaches 79.9. For its deprivation ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Born around Listuguj, a child can expect 1.6 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.4 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Upbeat about their health
Even once age is allowed for, 4.7 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (53% as answered). Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Listuguj 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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 3.1 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Listuguj’s, lies over the trend.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Listuguj’s region, at 4.1, outlives the trend’s 76.8 years with 79.9. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 77.9 years in the middle.
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.
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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 13th place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
53% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in 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
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 68% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 12% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
High blood pressure for 28% of adults in the region, diabetes for 11%
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
Self-reported obesity, 37%, tops Quebec (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.
The nearest hospital is 3.5 km from the average home in Listuguj
Straight-line distances from each part of Listuguj, weighted by who lives there.
From Listuguj that is nearer than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 9.5 km, while the average resident is 3.5 km away.
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.
Health in the places around Listuguj
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listuguj | 3.5 km | 56% | 79.9 | B− |
| Pointe-à-la-Croix 6.8 km | 5.7 km | 56% | 79.9 | B− |
| Campbellton 9.3 km | 1.0 km | 36% | 79.0 | C− |
| Atholville 14 km | 7.0 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
| Dalhousie 19 km | 12 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Campbellton’s life expectancy is 79.0, this region’s 79.9. Dalhousie is the furthest from care, 12 km to Listuguj’s 3.5 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Listuguj’s own.
Questions about health in Listuguj
How healthy is Listuguj?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Listuguj?
There is no figure for Listuguj alone; its health region’s is 81.6 for women and 78.2 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Listuguj’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Listuguj’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town. Being a First Nations reserve, it has no overall grade or ranking, and its regional survey figures come from people living off reserve.
How far is Listuguj from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.3 km from the average resident of Listuguj and a pharmacy 1.2 km, as the crow flies.
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). 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).