Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Nouvelle’s health region counts 18% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 12%
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%; Quebec as a whole is at 57%. What sets Nouvelle apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 25 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Nouvelle grades C for health.
What stands out about health in Nouvelle
Ahead of regions as deprived
Nouvelle’s region beats what its deprivation score of 4.1 predicts: 79.9 years against 76.8. For its deprivation ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Nouvelle live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (24 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Born around Nouvelle, a child can expect 1.6 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.4 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs high
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.7 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 53%. Health survey ↓
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.
Nouvelle grades C 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.
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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 3.1 years
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Nouvelle’s region is above the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 4.1, the expected figure is 76.8 years, and Nouvelle’s region does better with 79.9. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 77.9 years.
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.
Getting to hospital from Nouvelle: 25 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Nouvelle, weighted by who lives there.
From Nouvelle 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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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
This region is 13th longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Nouvelle’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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 53% to 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (68% against 64%), while 12% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
In the region, high blood pressure (28%) and diabetes (11%)
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
At 37%, 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.
Health in the places around Nouvelle
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nouvelle | 25 km | 56% | 79.9 | C |
| Dalhousie 9.7 km | 23 km | 36% | 79.0 | D− |
| Carleton-sur-Mer 15 km | 13 km | 56% | 79.9 | C+ |
| Charlo 16 km | 25 km | 36% | 79.0 | D− |
| Eel River Crossing 17 km | 16 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
| Dalhousie 18 km | 12 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
Across a regional line, Dalhousie has its own figures: life expectancy 79.0, against 79.9 here. Dalhousie is the closest to care, 12 km to Nouvelle’s 25 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Nouvelle shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
Questions about health in Nouvelle
How far is Nouvelle from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Nouvelle live: 9.2 km to a clinic, 9.9 km to a pharmacy.
How is Nouvelle’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 Nouvelle’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Nouvelle?
The region does worse 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 18%.
What is the life expectancy in Nouvelle?
There is no figure for Nouvelle alone; its health region’s is 81.6 for women and 78.2 for men in 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).