Health in Nominingue · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Health in Nominingue beats 94% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 60% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. Closer to home, a hospital is 10 km from the average resident of Nominingue, further than the usual 3.7 km. Nominingue grades A for health.
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 8.0 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 58% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Nominingue the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 11 km. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run low
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 19% report high blood pressure and 8.1% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Nominingue 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.
Very good or excellent health (60%)Better than 89% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (13%)Better than 98% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 80% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (82.2)Better than 77% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (10 km)Better than 56% 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 58% 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
58%
Health fair or poor
11%
Mental health very good or excellent
66%
Mental health fair or poor
8.9%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
52%
Satisfied with life
91%
Quebec
Mental health is no outlier: 66% say very good or excellent (Quebec: 64%) and 20% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Conditions and habits
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.1% diabetes
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
19%
Arthritis
18%
Diabetes
8.1%
Obese (self-reported)
29%
Mood disorder
9.4%
Anxiety disorder
11%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
11%
Smoke every day
8.4%
Heavy drinking
23%
Flu shot in the past year
29%
Quebec
Obesity tracks the province: 29% 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Nominingue: 10 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Nominingue’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
10 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
26 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
4.1 km
residents’ average distance
0.1 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
From Nominingue that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 1.0 years ahead of the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Nominingue’s lies above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
At 2.9 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 81.2 years, and the region Nominingue belongs to reaches 82.2. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure is 80.9 years. Modest pay, about $81,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
The wider area
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.
82.2
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.3
more years expected at 65
7th
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 7th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.0
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.2
Situational vulnerability3.3
The index is context and never graded: it describes Nominingue’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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Nominingue
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
One health region covers Nominingue and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of La Minerve live further from a hospital, at 20 km against 10 km in Nominingue.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Nominingue itself is the trip to care.
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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.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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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.
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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 Nominingue
How healthy is Nominingue?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 13% of adults.
How far is Nominingue from a hospital?
Residents of Nominingue have a clinic 26 km away on average and a pharmacy 4.1 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Nominingue?
There is no figure for Nominingue alone; its health region’s is 83.7 for women and 80.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Nominingue’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Nominingue: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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