Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Smoking runs high around Percé: 18% of adults, the typical Canadian town 12%
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 56% very good or excellent, 57% for Quebec. Closer to home, a hospital is 27 km from the average resident of Percé, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Percé is C, #2,287 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Percé
Ahead of regions as deprived
Percé’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
Distance is Percé’s own health question: 17% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 28 km. Getting care ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Percé runs 1.6 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.4 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 4.7 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 53% answered very good or excellent. 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.
Percé 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. Its place: #2,287 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 3.1 years
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Percé’s lies 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 Percé’s region does better with 79.9. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 77.9 years in the middle.
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.
From Percé, a hospital is 27 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Percé, weighted by who lives there.
Percé is further out 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.
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
Ranked 13th 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 Percé’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
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 68% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 12% find most days quite 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
Self-reported obesity, 37%, tops Quebec (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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Percé comes 36th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,087 to 3,188 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 7.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blakeley ON B+ | 3,151 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Ainslie Wood East ON B | 3,112 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 3 | La Loche SK | 3,124 | 1.0 km | – |
| 34 | Saint-David-de-Falardeau QC A− | 3,128 | 24 km | 66% |
| 35 | Electoral Area D, North Okanagan BC B− | 3,184 | 24 km | 52% |
| 36 | Percé QC C | 3,137 | 27 km | 56% |
| 37 | Saint-Gabriel QC B | 3,091 | 29 km | 56% |
| 38 | Cap-Pelé NB C | 3,092 | 37 km | 43% |
| 40 | Houston BC D− | 3,114 | 54 km | 42% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Percé
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percé | 27 km | 56% | 79.9 | C |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé 17 km | 20 km | 56% | 79.9 | C |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Percé’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Percé alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Percé
How far is Percé from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Percé is 7.6 km from a clinic and 12 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Percé?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
What is the life expectancy in Percé?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Percé’s health region only: 81.6 years for women and 78.2 for men (2022/2024).
How is Percé’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Percé’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).