Photo: Louise Montgrain · CC BY 3.0Health in Lorraine beats 96% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 60% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Quebec as a whole manages 57%. Measured from where Lorraine’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 5.8 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Lorraine is A+, #71 of 503 in Quebec and #196 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Lorraine
Self-rated health runs high
Even once age is allowed for, 8.0 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (58% as answered). Health survey ↓
Less chronic illness
High blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (8.1%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Fewer households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 1.4 out of 5, Lorraine sits in the index’s least pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Lorraine can reach 5.4 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.8 km off. Getting care ↓
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.
Lorraine 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: #71 of 503 in Quebec and #196 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 58% 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
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 66% very good or excellent against 64% for Quebec; stress is a daily matter for 20%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.1% diabetes
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 29%, the province 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.
Getting to hospital from Lorraine: 5.8 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Lorraine’s own, not the region’s.
Nothing unusual for Lorraine here: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital and the typical Canadian town 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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 7th place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Lorraine’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.0 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Lorraine’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 2.9, Lorraine’s region would be expected to reach 81.2 years; it reaches 82.2. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure is 80.9 years. On income alone, around $81,000 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Lorraine comes 25th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 9,526 to 9,926 people, median 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North London ON A− | 9,584 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 2 | South Cambie BC A+ | 9,846 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Daniel McIntyre MB B+ | 9,584 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 23 | Glastonbury AB B | 9,745 | 4.3 km | 51% |
| 24 | Springbank Hill AB A | 9,913 | 4.9 km | 56% |
| 25 | Lorraine QC A+ | 9,721 | 5.8 km | 60% |
| 26 | Aspen Woods AB A | 9,606 | 5.8 km | 56% |
| 27 | Lac-Deschênes QC B | 9,742 | 6.1 km | 55% |
| 40 | Shediac NB C | 9,849 | 24 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Lorraine
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lorraine | 5.8 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Bois-des-Filion 1.7 km | 7.1 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Rosemère 3.4 km | 3.7 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Auteuil 4.8 km | 4.3 km | 53% | 84.1 | A |
| Sainte-Thérèse 5.4 km | 1.4 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Blainville 6.4 km | 4.9 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Sainte-Rose 7.3 km | 5.1 km | 53% | 84.1 | A− |
Across a regional line, Auteuil has its own figures: life expectancy 84.1, against 82.2 here. Residents of Sainte-Thérèse live nearer a hospital, at 1.4 km against 5.8 km in Lorraine.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Lorraine itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Lorraine
How healthy is Lorraine?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 13%.
How is Lorraine’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Lorraine’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Lorraine?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Lorraine’s health region only: 83.7 years for women and 80.8 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Lorraine from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Lorraine live: 2.2 km to a clinic, 0.8 km to a pharmacy.
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).