Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0More adults feel healthy around Cité-Universitaire: 62% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
Lives in the region last 82.9 years on average (2022/2024): 84.7 for women, 81.1 for men. For Cité-Universitaire itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.0 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Cité-Universitaire is A+.
What stands out about health in Cité-Universitaire
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 18% of adults, diabetes for 7.2%. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Cité-Universitaire runs 1.4 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.1 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A hospital close by
Measured from where people live, Cité-Universitaire is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 1.2 km away. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Cité-Universitaire has 17 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.5 km away. Getting care ↓
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.
Cité-Universitaire 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (18%) and diabetes (7.2%)
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
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 30% report obesity, the province 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.
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 3rd 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 Cité-Universitaire 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.
From Cité-Universitaire, a hospital is 1.0 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Cité-Universitaire, weighted by who lives there.
From Cité-Universitaire that is nearer than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of 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.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Cité-Universitaire’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Use the deprivation index alone and Cité-Universitaire’s region, at 2.3, should live about 83.4 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.9, near enough. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 82.9 years. Households here earn around $75,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (correlation 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 61% 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
Mental health is close to the province’s: 66% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 22% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Cité-Universitaire is 5th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (22,012 to 23,115 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Church-Wellesley ON A | 22,415 | 0.2 km | 50% |
| 2 | Moss Park ON A | 22,701 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | High Park North ON A | 22,162 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 4 | Flemingdon Park ON A | 22,553 | 0.8 km | 50% |
| 5 | Cité-Universitaire QC A+ | 22,546 | 1.0 km | 62% |
| 6 | Snowdon QC A | 22,511 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 7 | Cornell ON A | 22,014 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 40 | Saint-Lazare QC A− | 22,895 | 17 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cité-Universitaire
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cité-Universitaire | 1.0 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Sillery 2.5 km | 0.8 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Plateau 2.6 km | 1.7 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Louis 2.7 km | 1.4 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Sacrement 2.8 km | 0.4 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Duberger—Les Saules 3.6 km | 2.8 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy 4.0 km | 3.1 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
Same region, same survey: Cité-Universitaire’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Cité-Universitaire itself is the trip to care.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Cité-Universitaire
How healthy is Cité-Universitaire?
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 14%.
How is Cité-Universitaire’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Cité-Universitaire’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Cité-Universitaire?
There is no figure for Cité-Universitaire alone; its health region’s is 84.7 for women and 81.1 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Cité-Universitaire from a hospital?
For everyday care, Cité-Universitaire’s residents are 0.5 km from a pharmacy and 0.7 km from a clinic on average.
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).