Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Plaisance’s health region counts 17% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 12%
In the health survey, 55% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec’s 57%. What sets Plaisance apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 9.8 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Plaisance grades B for health.
What stands out about health in Plaisance
A long way to hospital
Residents of Plaisance live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (9.1 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 18% of adults, diabetes for 8.6%. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Plaisance grades B 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.
The nearest hospital is 9.8 km from the average home in Plaisance
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Plaisance’s own, not the region’s.
Plaisance 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.
High blood pressure for 18% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.6%
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 34% of adults against 29% for 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Plaisance’s region comes out on the trend.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 3.1 would be expected to reach 80.5 years, and Plaisance’s region is close, at 80.7. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 80.7 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.
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
This region is 12th 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Plaisance’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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 55% and 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 trails Quebec: 59% very good or excellent to 64%, with 21% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Plaisance
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plaisance | 9.8 km | 55% | 80.7 | B |
| Papineauville 7.9 km | 4.7 km | 55% | 80.7 | B |
| Thurso 10 km | 13 km | 55% | 80.7 | B |
| Wendover 12 km | 15 km | 49% | 81.0 | C |
| Saint-André-Avellin 13 km | 7.6 km | 55% | 80.7 | B |
| Rockland 14 km | 15 km | 49% | 81.0 | C |
| Lochaber-Partie-Ouest 17 km | 6.7 km | 55% | 80.7 | B |
Wendover falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 81.0 against 80.7 here. Residents of Wendover live further from a hospital, at 15 km against 9.8 km in Plaisance.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Plaisance alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Plaisance
How is Plaisance’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Plaisance has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Plaisance?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How far is Plaisance from a hospital?
A clinic is 7.5 km from the average resident of Plaisance and a pharmacy 5.1 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Plaisance?
There is no figure for Plaisance alone; its health region’s is 82.2 for women and 79.1 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).