Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Macamic’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 2.0 years: life expectancy 79.5
In the health survey, 57% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec’s 57%. Closer to home, a hospital is 12 km from the average resident of Macamic, further than the usual 3.7 km. Macamic grades B− for health, #489 of 503 in Quebec and #1,987 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Macamic
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Macamic is well above the typical town’s; 14% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Macamic the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 15 km. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.2 out of 5, Macamic sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs high
Even once age is allowed for, 5.7 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (56% as answered). Health survey ↓
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.
Macamic 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. Its place: #489 of 503 in Quebec and #1,987 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.8%)
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
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.
Getting to hospital from Macamic: 12 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Macamic’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Macamic travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 56% 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
Mental health is close to the province’s: 65% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 18% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Macamic’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Life expectancy about where the region’s deprivation puts it, a shade above
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Macamic’s region comes out on the trend.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Macamic’s region is a typical case: 79.5 years at a score of 3.5, where the trend says 79.0. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (8 of 10, median 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Macamic is 23rd nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,662 to 2,737 people, median 8.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanna AB B− | 2,665 | 0.5 km | 52% |
| 2 | Sundre AB C+ | 2,683 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 2,671 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 21 | La Présentation QC A | 2,696 | 8.3 km | 55% |
| 22 | Bouctouche NB C+ | 2,678 | 11 km | 43% |
| 23 | Macamic QC B− | 2,698 | 12 km | 57% |
| 24 | Spaniard's Bay NL D− | 2,664 | 12 km | 44% |
| 25 | Eastman QC A | 2,706 | 14 km | 57% |
| 40 | Waskaganish QC | 2,726 | 132 km | – |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Macamic
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macamic | 12 km | 57% | 79.5 | B− |
| La Sarre 16 km | 1.2 km | 57% | 79.5 | B |
| Palmarolle 18 km | 13 km | 57% | 79.5 | B− |
Macamic and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. La Sarre is the closest to care, 1.2 km to Macamic’s 12 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 Macamic’s own.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Macamic
How healthy is Macamic?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Macamic?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.6 for women, 77.6 for men around Macamic (2022/2024).
How is Macamic’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Macamic has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Macamic from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Macamic is 2.3 km from a clinic and 13 km from 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).