Photo: DomLemLali · CC BY-SA 4.061% of adults around Plessisville call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Lives in the region last 81.6 years on average (2022/2024): 83.3 for women, 79.9 for men. What sets Plessisville apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 22 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Plessisville is B+, #432 of 503 in Quebec and #1,423 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Plessisville
A long way to hospital
Residents of Plessisville 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 ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
Regions scoring 3.2 on the deprivation index typically live 80.0 years; Plessisville’s region, at 81.6, does better. For its deprivation ↓
Long-term conditions run low
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 8.2%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Plessisville 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. Its place: #432 of 503 in Quebec and #1,423 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.
From Plessisville, a hospital is 22 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Plessisville, weighted by who lives there.
Plessisville 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.
The region lives 1.6 years longer than its deprivation predicts
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Plessisville’s region comes out above the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Plessisville’s region, at 3.2, should live about 80.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.6. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 80.5 years. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $62,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.2%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 34% of adults against 29% for Quebec. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 25% to 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.
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
This region is 11th 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
This is the one part of the block measured for Plessisville itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 59% very good or excellent, against 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
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 68% very good or excellent to 64%, with 20% facing stressful days.
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: Plessisville comes 38th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,617 to 6,914 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre QC A | 6,627 | 0.8 km | 55% |
| 2 | Old Ottawa South ON A+ | 6,704 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 3 | Hillsdale SK B+ | 6,792 | 1.2 km | 49% |
| 36 | Southern Gulf Islands BC A | 6,691 | 17 km | 55% |
| 37 | Parkhill ON B | 6,864 | 18 km | 52% |
| 38 | Plessisville QC B+ | 6,774 | 22 km | 61% |
| 39 | Barrington NS D− | 6,720 | 36 km | 44% |
| 40 | Thunder Bay, Unorganized ON D | 6,831 | 37 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Plessisville
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plessisville | 22 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Plessisville 2.9 km | 24 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Princeville 10 km | 14 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Laurierville 11 km | 34 km | 61% | 81.6 | B |
| Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska 14 km | 7.8 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Louis-de-Blandford 16 km | 24 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
One health region covers Plessisville and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska is the closest to care, 7.8 km to Plessisville’s 22 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Plessisville’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Plessisville
How healthy is Plessisville?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Plessisville from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Plessisville live: 0.5 km to a clinic, 0.9 km to a pharmacy.
How is Plessisville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Plessisville’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Plessisville?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.3 for women, 79.9 for men around Plessisville (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).