Photo: Jean-Philippe Boulet · CC BY 3.0Health in Magog beats 96% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 57%; Quebec as a whole is at 57%. For Magog itself the measure is access: 2.6 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Magog a grade of A+, #68 of 503 in Quebec and #177 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Magog
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.0, the trend across regions gives 81.0 years of life; Magog’s region reaches 82.9. For its deprivation ↓
Long-term conditions run low
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 19% of adults, diabetes for 9.1%. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Magog runs 1.4 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.2 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 5.4 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 56%. 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.
Magog 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: #68 of 503 in Quebec and #177 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.9 years more here
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Magog’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Use the deprivation index alone and Magog’s region, at 3.0, should live about 81.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.9. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 80.4 years. Modest pay, about $67,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.1%
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 29% of adults against 29% for Quebec.
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.
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
This region is 3rd longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Magog’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
56% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (56%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Asked about their mental health, 63% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Quebec it was 64%, and 20% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting to hospital from Magog: 2.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Magog’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, Magog is on the near side. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 0.3 km, while the average resident is 2.6 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.
Magog is 18th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 29,066 to 32,167 people, median 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verdun-Centre QC A | 30,304 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Centretown ON A+ | 32,035 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 3 | Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre QC A | 31,113 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 16 | Parc-Extension QC A | 29,066 | 2.2 km | 54% |
| 17 | Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown ON A | 32,069 | 2.3 km | 50% |
| 18 | Magog QC A+ | 30,764 | 2.6 km | 57% |
| 19 | Du Moulin QC B+ | 30,364 | 2.6 km | 55% |
| 20 | Boisbriand QC A+ | 29,830 | 2.7 km | 60% |
| 40 | Conception Bay South NL C+ | 29,725 | 17 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Magog
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magog | 2.6 km | 57% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Orford 7.8 km | 9.2 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Austin 8.7 km | 10 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley 9.2 km | 7.3 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Eastman 12 km | 14 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Ayer's Cliff 13 km | 13 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Stanstead 16 km | 17 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
Same region, same survey: Magog’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Stanstead live further from a hospital, at 17 km against 2.6 km in Magog.
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.
- 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. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Magog itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Magog
How is Magog’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Magog: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Magog?
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 14%.
What is the life expectancy in Magog?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.8 for women, 81.0 for men around Magog (2022/2024).
How far is Magog from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Magog live: 2.6 km to a clinic, 1.8 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).