Photo: Donat-C. Noiseux · Public domain18% of adults smoke in the health region around Pointe-à-la-Croix, against 12% for the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%; Quebec as a whole is at 57%. Measured from where Pointe-à-la-Croix’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 5.7 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Pointe-à-la-Croix is B−.
What stands out about health in Pointe-à-la-Croix
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
For a deprivation score of 4.1, the trend across regions gives 76.8 years of life; Pointe-à-la-Croix’s region reaches 79.9. For its deprivation ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Pointe-à-la-Croix 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 ↓
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Pointe-à-la-Croix at 5.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
More people feeling well
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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Pointe-à-la-Croix 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 3.1 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Pointe-à-la-Croix’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 4.1 at 76.8 years of life; Pointe-à-la-Croix’s region does better, at 79.9. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (9 of 10), with a median of 77.9.
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.
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 Pointe-à-la-Croix’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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 68% very good or excellent to 64%; 12% 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.
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.
The nearest hospital is 5.7 km from the average home in Pointe-à-la-Croix
Straight-line distances from each part of Pointe-à-la-Croix, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care Pointe-à-la-Croix is ordinary: 5.3 km is the typical figure in Quebec, 3.7 km for 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.
Health in the places around Pointe-à-la-Croix
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe-à-la-Croix | 5.7 km | 56% | 79.9 | B− |
| Campbellton 3.4 km | 1.0 km | 36% | 79.0 | C− |
| Listuguj 6.8 km | 3.5 km | 56% | 79.9 | B− |
| Atholville 12 km | 7.0 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
| Dalhousie 13 km | 12 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
| Balmoral 18 km | 16 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
| Eel River Crossing 19 km | 16 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Campbellton’s life expectancy is 79.0, this region’s 79.9. Residents of Eel River Crossing live further from a hospital, at 16 km against 5.7 km in Pointe-à-la-Croix.
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.
- 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 Pointe-à-la-Croix’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
Questions about health in Pointe-à-la-Croix
How is Pointe-à-la-Croix’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 Pointe-à-la-Croix’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Pointe-à-la-Croix?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Pointe-à-la-Croix?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.6 for women, 78.2 for men around Pointe-à-la-Croix (2022/2024).
How far is Pointe-à-la-Croix from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Pointe-à-la-Croix is 3.3 km from a clinic and 3.3 km from a pharmacy.
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).