Photo: Ville de Normandin · Public domainVery good or excellent health for 66% of adults around Normandin; the typical Canadian town: 52%
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.8, women 83.2 and men 80.4 (2022/2024). Measured from where Normandin’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 22 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Normandin a grade of A−, #359 of 503 in Quebec and #1,042 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Normandin
A long way to hospital
Residents of Normandin live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (22 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
From the average home in Normandin, a pharmacy is 22 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Normandin at 4.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Normandin 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: #359 of 503 in Quebec and #1,042 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.
The nearest hospital is 22 km from the average home in Normandin
Straight-line distances from each part of Normandin, weighted by who lives there.
From Normandin that is further 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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Quebec, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Ranked 9th of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Normandin’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.4 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Normandin’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Normandin’s region beats it: 81.8 years against the 80.4 the trend gives a score of 3.1. It outlives 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 80.6 years. A household income of about $69,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9% 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, 30%, sits within a few points of Quebec (29%). At 29%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 72% very good or excellent to 64%; 14% 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Normandin comes 33rd of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,018 to 3,114 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tisdale SK C− | 3,052 | 0.7 km | 47% |
| 2 | Princeton BC B+ | 3,050 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Leslie Park - Bruce Farm ON A+ | 3,056 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 31 | Athens ON C+ | 3,078 | 14 km | 51% |
| 32 | Ange-Gardien QC A− | 3,100 | 17 km | 57% |
| 33 | Normandin QC A− | 3,065 | 22 km | 66% |
| 34 | Vanscoy No. 345 SK B− | 3,029 | 25 km | 49% |
| 35 | Saint-Gabriel QC B | 3,091 | 29 km | 56% |
| 40 | Elkford BC B− | 3,030 | 55 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Normandin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normandin | 22 km | 66% | 81.8 | A− |
| Albanel 9.1 km | 11 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| La Doré 15 km | 35 km | 66% | 81.8 | B+ |
| Girardville 19 km | 26 km | 66% | 81.8 | A− |
Around Normandin the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. La Doré is the furthest from care, 35 km to Normandin’s 22 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Normandin 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. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
Questions about health in Normandin
How healthy is Normandin?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Normandin from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.4 km from the average resident of Normandin and a pharmacy 22 km, as the crow flies.
How is Normandin’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Normandin’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Normandin?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Normandin’s health region only: 83.2 years for women and 80.4 for men (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).