Photo: Dicklyon · CC BY-SA 4.055% of adults around Pointe-des-Cascades rate their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 82.5 years at birth, 84.2 for women and 80.8 for men. For Pointe-des-Cascades itself the measure is access, and it lags: 15 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Pointe-des-Cascades is A−.
What stands out about health in Pointe-des-Cascades
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Pointe-des-Cascades the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 15 km. Getting care ↓
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 9.9%. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Pointe-des-Cascades runs 1.0 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.5 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
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.
Pointe-des-Cascades 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.
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.
Getting to hospital from Pointe-des-Cascades: 15 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Pointe-des-Cascades’ own, not the region’s.
Residents of Pointe-des-Cascades travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%)
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 is close to the province’s level, 32% 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.
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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 6th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Pointe-des-Cascades’ own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Pointe-des-Cascades’ region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Pointe-des-Cascades’ region fits it, 82.5 years at 2.7 against the line’s 82.1. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (7 of 10, median 81.4 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.
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (56%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
For 23% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 64% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Quebec’s 64%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Pointe-des-Cascades
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-des-Cascades | 15 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Pincourt 4.9 km | 14 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Terrasse-Vaudreuil 6.7 km | 14 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| L'Île-Perrot 6.7 km | 12 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Les Cèdres 7.1 km | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot 7.4 km | 10 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Beauharnois 8.1 km | 10 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Pointe-des-Cascades’ regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Pointe-des-Cascades shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Pointe-des-Cascades
How far is Pointe-des-Cascades from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Pointe-des-Cascades live: 3.1 km to a clinic, 5.8 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Pointe-des-Cascades?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How is Pointe-des-Cascades’ 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-des-Cascades’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Pointe-des-Cascades?
Women in Pointe-des-Cascades’ region live to 84.2 on average and men to 80.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).