Photo: Edgar Gariépy · Public domainVery good or excellent health for 56% of adults in Mascouche’s health region
People in the region live to 82.0 on average: 83.7 for women and 80.3 for men in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Mascouche’s is long: 9.2 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Mascouche is B+, #402 of 503 in Quebec and #1,190 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Mascouche
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
For a deprivation score of 3.1, the trend across regions gives 80.3 years of life; Mascouche’s region reaches 82.0. For its deprivation ↓
Long-term conditions run low
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 8.2%. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 4.5 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.3 km off, Mascouche is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Mascouche 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: #402 of 503 in Quebec and #1,190 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.7 years
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Mascouche’s region comes out above the trend.
At 3.1 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 80.3 years, and the region Mascouche belongs to reaches 82.0. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure is 80.9 years. Its towns’ household income, about $81,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s correlation: 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%)
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
At 33%, 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 Mascouche: 9.2 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Mascouche’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, Mascouche 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.
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 8th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Mascouche’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.
55% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
On mental health the region tracks Quebec, 64% 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Mascouche is 35th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 47,280 to 68,265 people, median 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Vancouver BC A+ | 66,624 | 1.1 km | 59% |
| 2 | Saint-Eustache QC A+ | 47,562 | 1.4 km | 60% |
| 3 | Cornwall ON B− | 54,346 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 33 | Alliston ON B+ | 50,739 | 7.9 km | 54% |
| 34 | Bradford ON B+ | 51,346 | 8.5 km | 54% |
| 35 | Mascouche QC B+ | 56,897 | 9.2 km | 56% |
| 36 | Stouffville ON A− | 58,010 | 10 km | 51% |
| 37 | Caledonia ON D | 56,059 | 10 km | 48% |
| 40 | Keswick ON B+ | 53,630 | 17 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Mascouche
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mascouche | 9.2 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Terrebonne 4.3 km | 9.7 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-François 8.0 km | 4.7 km | 53% | 84.1 | A− |
| Charlemagne 10 km | 1.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Rivière-des-Prairies 10 km | 2.1 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Marc-Aurèle-Fortin 12 km | 2.1 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan 12 km | 16 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
Across a regional line, Saint-François has its own figures: life expectancy 84.1, against 82.0 here. Charlemagne is the closest to care, 1.6 km to Mascouche’s 9.2 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Mascouche’s own.
- 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 Mascouche
How is Mascouche’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Mascouche has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Mascouche?
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.
How far is Mascouche from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Mascouche is 1.8 km from a clinic and 1.3 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Mascouche?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Mascouche’s health region only: 83.7 years for women and 80.3 for men (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).