Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Health in Pointe-Claire beats 90% of Canadian towns
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 54% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. For Pointe-Claire itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.0 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Pointe-Claire is A, #217 of 503 in Quebec and #582 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Pointe-Claire
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
At 83.4 years, Pointe-Claire’s region outlives the 80.8 that regions scoring 3.0 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
A long-lived region
Born around Pointe-Claire, a child can expect 1.9 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.6 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 15% of adults, diabetes for 7.3%. Conditions and habits ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Pointe-Claire can reach 8.6 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.9 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Pointe-Claire grades A 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: #217 of 503 in Quebec and #582 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.
The region lives 2.6 years longer than its deprivation predicts
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Pointe-Claire’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 3.0 at 80.8 years of life; Pointe-Claire’s region does better, at 83.4. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 80.2. Judged by income, around $68,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 2nd of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Pointe-Claire’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.
15% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.3% diabetes
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
Fewer adults report obesity than across Quebec: 23%, the province 29%. At 19%, heavy drinking trails the provincial 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.
The nearest hospital is 2.0 km from the average home in Pointe-Claire
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Pointe-Claire’s own, not the region’s.
Pointe-Claire is closer in 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 55% 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
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (58% against 64%), while 23% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Pointe-Claire is 10th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 34,805 to 40,274 people, median 2.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Pleasant BC A+ | 37,091 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 2 | Côte-Saint-Luc QC A | 37,901 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 3 | Cecil-P.-Newman QC A | 34,965 | 1.5 km | 54% |
| 8 | Kensington-Cedar Cottage BC A+ | 39,668 | 1.8 km | 50% |
| 9 | Penticton BC B+ | 39,068 | 1.9 km | 52% |
| 10 | Pointe-Claire QC A | 37,437 | 2.0 km | 54% |
| 11 | Leduc AB B+ | 39,966 | 2.0 km | 51% |
| 12 | Port Moody BC A | 38,285 | 2.1 km | 48% |
| 40 | West Kelowna BC B | 40,274 | 8.5 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Pointe-Claire
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-Claire | 2.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Dollard-Des Ormeaux 3.6 km | 4.5 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Kirkland 4.6 km | 2.8 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Dorval 4.9 km | 4.6 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Beaconsfield 4.9 km | 3.3 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Pierrefonds-Ouest 5.1 km | 4.3 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Pierrefonds-Est 5.6 km | 6.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
One health region covers Pointe-Claire and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Pierrefonds-Est live further from a hospital, at 6.0 km against 2.0 km in Pointe-Claire.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Pointe-Claire itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Pointe-Claire
What is the life expectancy in Pointe-Claire?
For the health region that includes Pointe-Claire, women can expect 85.5 years and men 81.2 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Pointe-Claire?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
How is Pointe-Claire’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-Claire’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Pointe-Claire from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Pointe-Claire live: 1.4 km to a clinic, 0.9 km to 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).