Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Mercier is ahead of 92% of Canadian towns
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Quebec, 55% against 57%. Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.7 km from the average resident of Mercier, about the norm of 3.7 km. Mercier grades A for health, #184 of 503 in Quebec and #504 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Mercier
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Mercier, a child can expect 1.0 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.5 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Mercier 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: #184 of 503 in Quebec and #504 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.9%
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
Obesity tracks the province: 32% of adults here, 29% across 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.
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 6th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Mercier’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Mercier’s region shows close to the trend.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Mercier’s region fits it, 82.5 years at 2.7 against the line’s 82.1. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 81.4.
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.
The nearest hospital is 3.7 km from the average home in Mercier
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Mercier’s own, not the region’s.
From Mercier 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 54% to 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
The region’s 64% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Quebec’s 64%, with 23% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Mercier comes 25th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 15,686 to 16,403 people, median 2.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Toronto ON A | 16,007 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Côte-Saint-Paul QC A | 16,403 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Trinity-Bellwoods ON A | 15,691 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 23 | Hillcrest Village ON A | 16,374 | 3.3 km | 50% |
| 24 | Kenora ON C | 15,892 | 3.6 km | 44% |
| 25 | Mercier QC A | 16,036 | 3.7 km | 55% |
| 26 | South Windsor ON B | 15,896 | 3.8 km | 52% |
| 27 | Fairview NS B+ | 16,296 | 3.8 km | 51% |
| 40 | Lavaltrie QC B | 15,996 | 18 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Mercier
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercier | 3.7 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Châteauguay 5.1 km | 2.5 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Isidore 5.7 km | 8.3 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Léry 6.2 km | 2.9 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Sainte-Martine 7.6 km | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Kahnawake 8.7 km | 1.3 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Urbain-Premier 10 km | 15 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
Only the hospital column is local here: Mercier and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Saint-Urbain-Premier live further from a hospital, at 15 km against 3.7 km in Mercier.
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.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Mercier shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
Questions about health in Mercier
How healthy is Mercier?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
How is Mercier’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Mercier’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Mercier?
Women in Mercier’s region live to 84.2 on average and men to 80.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Mercier from a hospital?
A clinic is 3.7 km from the average resident of Mercier and a pharmacy 1.3 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).