Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Very good or excellent health for 61% of adults around Lyster; the typical Canadian town: 52%
A baby born in the region can expect 81.6 years, 83.3 for a girl and 79.9 for a boy (2022/2024). For Lyster itself, the measure is access: 35 km to the nearest hospital on average, with 100% of homes beyond 30 km. Health gives Lyster a grade of B.
What stands out about health in Lyster
Far from a hospital
Residents of Lyster live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (35 km from its centre of population), and 100% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
At 81.6 years, Lyster’s region outlives the 80.0 that regions scoring 3.2 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
More households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Lyster’s neighbourhoods average 4.3 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Less chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 21% report high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Lyster 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.
Getting to hospital from Lyster: 35 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Lyster’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Lyster is on the far side.
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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 1.6 years ahead of the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Lyster’s lies above the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Lyster’s region, at 3.2, should live about 80.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.6. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 7 of 10; their median is 80.5 years. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $62,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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 8.2% 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
More adults report obesity than across Quebec: 34%, the province 29%. At 25%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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
The region comes 11th of 18 in Quebec, where life expectancy runs from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Lyster’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 59% very good or excellent, against 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, 68% very good or excellent to 64%; 20% 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.
Health in the places around Lyster
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyster | 35 km | 61% | 81.6 | B |
| Laurierville 11 km | 34 km | 61% | 81.6 | B |
| Val-Alain 12 km | 23 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Janvier-de-Joly 14 km | 28 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Flavien 15 km | 33 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière 16 km | 30 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Laurier-Station 18 km | 32 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Val-Alain’s life expectancy is 82.8, this region’s 81.6.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Lyster itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Lyster
How far is Lyster from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Lyster is 2.0 km from a clinic and 1.9 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Lyster?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Lyster’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Lyster’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Lyster?
There is no figure for Lyster alone; its health region’s is 83.3 for women and 79.9 for men in 2022/2024.
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).