Photo: Coastal Elite from Halifax, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Health in Upper Lachine beats 93% of Canadian towns
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 54% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. For Upper Lachine itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 0.8 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Upper Lachine a grade of A, #126 of 503 in Quebec and #412 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Upper Lachine
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.0, the trend across regions gives 80.8 years of life; Upper Lachine’s region reaches 83.4. For its deprivation ↓
Longer lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Upper Lachine runs 1.9 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.6 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A lighter load of illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 15% report high blood pressure and 7.3% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
Measured from where people live, Upper Lachine is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 1.2 km away. Getting care ↓
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.
Upper Lachine 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: #126 of 503 in Quebec and #412 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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 2.6 years ahead of the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Upper Lachine’s region shows above the trend.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.0, Upper Lachine’s region would be expected to reach 80.8 years; it reaches 83.4. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 80.2. Judged by income, around $68,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 2nd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Upper Lachine’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
15% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.3% diabetes
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
Self-reported obesity, 23%, trails Quebec (29%). Fewer adults drink heavily, 19% to the province’s 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.
Getting to hospital from Upper Lachine: 0.8 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Upper Lachine’s own, not the region’s.
Upper Lachine is closer in 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.
55% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
On mental health the region is behind Quebec, 58% very good or excellent to 64%; 23% 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, Upper Lachine is 3rd nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 20,628 to 21,636 people, median 2.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East L'Amoreaux ON A | 21,533 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 2 | Englemount-Lawrence ON A | 21,455 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Upper Lachine QC A | 21,130 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 4 | Mont-Bleu QC B+ | 21,636 | 0.8 km | 55% |
| 5 | Gabriel-Sagard QC A | 20,719 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 40 | South Frontenac ON B− | 21,599 | 22 km | 53% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Upper Lachine
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Lachine | 0.8 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Côte-Saint-Antoine 0.9 km | 1.1 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Loyola 1.7 km | 0.6 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Snowdon 2.2 km | 1.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Hampstead 2.3 km | 1.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Ville-Émard 2.4 km | 1.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Westmount 2.5 km | 0.9 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
Upper Lachine and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Upper Lachine itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Upper Lachine
How is Upper Lachine’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Upper Lachine’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Upper Lachine?
For the health region that includes Upper Lachine, women can expect 85.5 years and men 81.2 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Upper Lachine?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
How far is Upper Lachine from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Upper Lachine is 0.8 km from a clinic and 0.4 km from a pharmacy.
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).