Health in Lorrainville · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Life expectancy around Lorrainville is 79.5 years, 2.0 less than for the typical Canadian town
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Quebec, 57% against 57%. Closer to home, a hospital is 7.6 km from the average resident of Lorrainville, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Lorrainville a grade of B.
Quebec: 57% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Chronic conditions
15%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
The age-standardised smoking rate around Lorrainville is well above the typical town’s; 14% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Harder circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Lorrainville at 4.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
More people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 5.7 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 56%. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Lorrainville 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 (57%)Better than 82% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 68% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 26% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.5)Better than 34% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (7.6 km)Better than 65% 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.
Conditions and habits
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.8% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
21%
Arthritis
20%
Diabetes
9.8%
Obese (self-reported)
37%
Mood disorder
10%
Anxiety disorder
14%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
25%
Flu shot in the past year
28%
Quebec
At 37%, self-reported obesity is above 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.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 56% and 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
Health very good or excellent
56%
Health fair or poor
14%
Mental health very good or excellent
65%
Mental health fair or poor
8.9%
Most days quite a bit stressful
18%
Strong sense of belonging
61%
Satisfied with life
91%
Quebec
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Quebec (65% against 64%), while 18% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The wider area
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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.
79.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.2
more years expected at 65
14th
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 14th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.7
Economic dependency2.7
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability4.0
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Lorrainville’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Lorrainville’s region shows close to the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Lorrainville’s region is a typical case: 79.5 years at a score of 3.5, where the trend says 79.0. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 78.7 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
From Lorrainville, a hospital is 7.6 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Lorrainville, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
7.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
7.2 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
7.0 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 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
Lorrainville is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Around Lorrainville the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Ville-Marie is the closest to care, 0.8 km to Lorrainville’s 7.6 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
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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.
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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. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Lorrainville itself is the trip to care.
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Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
Questions about health in Lorrainville
How is Lorrainville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Lorrainville’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Lorrainville?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Lorrainville?
Women in Lorrainville’s region live to 81.6 on average and men to 77.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Lorrainville from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Lorrainville live: 7.2 km to a clinic, 7.0 km to a pharmacy.
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