Photo: Charny · CC BY-SA 3.0Smoking runs high around Maria: 18% of adults, the typical Canadian town 12%
Across the region, 56% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Quebec (57%). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Maria is well placed: 1.6 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Maria is B−, #491 of 503 in Quebec and #2,001 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Maria
More years than its deprivation would give
Deprivation alone, a score of 4.1, would put Maria’s region near 76.8 years; it reaches 79.9. For its deprivation ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Maria’s region sits 1.6 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.4 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs high
Even once age is allowed for, 4.7 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (53% 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.
Maria 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: #491 of 503 in Quebec and #2,001 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: 3.1 years more here
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Maria’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 4.1 at 76.8 years of life; Maria’s region does better, at 79.9. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 77.9 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.
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
The region comes 13th 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Maria’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.
53% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Quebec (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 health looks better than in the province too: 68% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 12% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
28% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 11% 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
Self-reported obesity, 37%, tops Quebec (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.
From Maria, a hospital is 1.6 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Maria’s own, not the region’s.
From Maria that is nearer than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
Maria is 8th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,736 to 2,808 people, median 7.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waterridge Village ON A+ | 2,737 | 0.6 km | 56% |
| 2 | Kuujjuaq QC | 2,766 | 0.7 km | – |
| 3 | Kameyosek AB B+ | 2,761 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 6 | Downtown West End AB A+ | 2,796 | 1.3 km | 56% |
| 7 | Upper Mount Royal AB A+ | 2,758 | 1.5 km | 56% |
| 8 | Maria QC B− | 2,770 | 1.6 km | 56% |
| 9 | Woodcroft AB B+ | 2,770 | 1.8 km | 51% |
| 10 | Tofino BC B | 2,772 | 2.0 km | 47% |
| 40 | Atikokan ON D | 2,796 | 72 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Maria
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maria | 1.6 km | 56% | 79.9 | B− |
| New Richmond 11 km | 11 km | 56% | 79.9 | C+ |
| Carleton-sur-Mer 12 km | 13 km | 56% | 79.9 | C+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Maria’s regional figures. Carleton-sur-Mer is the furthest from care, 13 km to Maria’s 1.6 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Maria alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Maria
How is Maria’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Maria’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Maria?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
What is the life expectancy in Maria?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.6 for women, 78.2 for men around Maria (2022/2024).
How far is Maria from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.1 km from the average resident of Maria and a pharmacy 1.5 km, as the crow flies.
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).