Photo: Vintotal · CC BY-SA 3.0Health in Mashteuiatsh beats 92% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 66% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Quebec’s 57%. Measured from where Mashteuiatsh’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 7.2 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Mashteuiatsh is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Mashteuiatsh itself. Health gives Mashteuiatsh a grade of A.
What stands out about health in Mashteuiatsh
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Mashteuiatsh’s neighbourhoods average 5.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 14.7 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 64% answered very good or excellent. 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.
Mashteuiatsh 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.
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.
64% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in 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
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 72% very good or excellent to 64%, with 14% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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
This region is 9th 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 Mashteuiatsh’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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.4 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Mashteuiatsh’s dot is marked, above the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Mashteuiatsh’s region, at 3.1, should live about 80.4 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.8. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 80.6 years. Its towns’ household income, about $69,000, 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9%
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
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 30% report obesity, the province 29%. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 29% to 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.
The nearest hospital is 7.2 km from the average home in Mashteuiatsh
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Mashteuiatsh’s own, not the region’s.
Mashteuiatsh is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
Health in the places around Mashteuiatsh
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mashteuiatsh | 7.2 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Roberval 6.9 km | 1.7 km | 66% | 81.8 | A+ |
| Saint-Prime 7.7 km | 14 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Saint-Félicien 17 km | 23 km | 66% | 81.8 | A− |
Every place around Mashteuiatsh shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Residents of Saint-Félicien live further from a hospital, at 23 km against 7.2 km in Mashteuiatsh.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Mashteuiatsh itself is the trip to care.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
Questions about health in Mashteuiatsh
How healthy is Mashteuiatsh?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How far is Mashteuiatsh from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Mashteuiatsh is 1.9 km from a clinic and 5.3 km from a pharmacy.
How is Mashteuiatsh’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Mashteuiatsh: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town. Being a First Nations reserve, it has no overall grade or ranking, and its regional survey figures come from people living off reserve.
What is the life expectancy in Mashteuiatsh?
For the health region that includes Mashteuiatsh, women can expect 83.2 years and men 80.4 (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).