Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Few places match Prévost for health: it beats 95% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 60%, ahead of the 57% for Quebec. What sets Prévost apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 8.0 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Prévost a grade of A, #86 of 503 in Quebec and #283 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Prévost
Self-rated health runs high
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 8.0 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 58% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Long-term conditions run low
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 19% report high blood pressure and 8.1% diabetes. 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.
Prévost 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: #86 of 503 in Quebec and #283 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.
58% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (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
Asked about their mental health, 66% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Quebec it was 64%, and 20% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.1% diabetes
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 tracks the province: 29% of adults here, 29% across 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.
The region lives 1.0 years longer than its deprivation predicts
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Prévost’s region’s dot is above the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Prévost’s region, at 2.9, should live about 81.2 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.2. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median is 80.9 years. On income alone, around $81,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (0.14).
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.
From Prévost, a hospital is 8.0 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Prévost, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Prévost is on the far side.
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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
The region comes 7th of 18 in Quebec, where life expectancy runs 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 Prévost 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Prévost is 27th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (13,998 to 14,571 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maizerets QC A+ | 14,571 | 0.5 km | 62% |
| 2 | Vieux-Limoilou QC A+ | 14,347 | 0.6 km | 62% |
| 3 | Sandwich ON B+ | 14,110 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 25 | Durham ON C+ | 14,355 | 5.9 km | 48% |
| 26 | Glen Cairn ON A | 14,020 | 7.9 km | 56% |
| 27 | Prévost QC A | 14,275 | 8.0 km | 60% |
| 28 | Mount Forest ON B | 14,407 | 8.5 km | 51% |
| 29 | Tiny ON B+ | 14,195 | 8.5 km | 54% |
| 40 | Warman SK B | 14,245 | 18 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Prévost
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prévost | 8.0 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs 4.6 km | 11 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Saint-Hippolyte 6.3 km | 12 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Piedmont 7.6 km | 15 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Saint-Jérôme 8.5 km | 2.1 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Sainte-Sophie 9.8 km | 7.5 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Saint-Sauveur 10 km | 17 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Prévost from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Saint-Sauveur is the furthest from care, 17 km to Prévost’s 8.0 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 Prévost’s own.
- 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. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Prévost
How healthy is Prévost?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 13%.
How far is Prévost from a hospital?
A clinic is 2.3 km from the average resident of Prévost and a pharmacy 1.4 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Prévost?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.7 for women, 80.8 for men around Prévost (2022/2024).
How is Prévost’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Prévost’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).