Health in Montpellier · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Montpellier’s health region counts 17% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 12%
In the health survey, 55% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec’s 57%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Montpellier’s is long: 24 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Montpellier a grade of B−.
Distance is Montpellier’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 24 km. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Montpellier sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Less chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 18% of adults, diabetes for 8.6%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Montpellier 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.
Very good or excellent health (55%)Better than 69% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 84% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 21% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.7)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (24 km)Better than 16% of Canadian towns
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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 24 km from the average home in Montpellier
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Montpellier’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
24 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.3 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
10 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Montpellier is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
High blood pressure for 18% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.6%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
18%
Arthritis
17%
Diabetes
8.6%
Obese (self-reported)
34%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
30%
Quebec
At 34%, 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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
80.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.6
more years expected at 65
12th
longest of 18 regions in Quebec
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Région de Laval84.1
Région de Montréal83.4
Région de la Capitale-Nationale82.9
Région de l'Estrie82.9
Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches82.8
Région de la Montérégie82.5
Région des Laurentides82.2
Région de Lanaudière82.0
Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean81.8
Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent81.7
Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec81.6
Région de l'Outaouais80.7
Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine79.9
Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue79.5
Région de la Côte-Nord79.4
Région du Nord-du-Québec78.1
Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James76.8
Région du Nunavik65.2
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 12th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability4.0
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
The index is context and never graded: it describes Montpellier’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.
For its deprivation
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Montpellier’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.1, the expected figure is 80.5 years, and Montpellier’s region matches it closely with 80.7. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 80.7.
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.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 55% 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
Health very good or excellent
55%
Health fair or poor
14%
Mental health very good or excellent
59%
Mental health fair or poor
11%
Most days quite a bit stressful
21%
Strong sense of belonging
50%
Satisfied with life
88%
Quebec
Mental health trails Quebec: 59% very good or excellent to 64%, with 21% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Montpellier
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Only the hospital column is local here: Montpellier and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Saint-André-Avellin is the closest to care, 7.6 km to Montpellier’s 24 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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.
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Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
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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.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Montpellier itself is the trip to care.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Montpellier
How far is Montpellier from a hospital?
Residents of Montpellier have a clinic 1.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 10 km away, in straight lines.
How is Montpellier’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Montpellier’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Montpellier?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Montpellier?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.2 for women, 79.1 for men around Montpellier (2022/2024).
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