Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Few places match Plateau for health: it beats almost every Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 62%, ahead of the 57% for Quebec. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Plateau is well placed: 1.7 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Plateau grades A+ for health, #17 of 503 in Quebec and #19 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Plateau
Self-rated health runs high
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 10.1 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 61% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
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 Plateau 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 ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
With 15 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.5 km off, Plateau is well served for prescriptions. 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.
Plateau 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: #17 of 503 in Quebec and #19 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.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 61% very good or excellent, against 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 no outlier: 66% say very good or excellent (Quebec: 64%) and 22% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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
Self-reported obesity, 30%, sits within a few points of Quebec (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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 3rd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Plateau’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
The nearest hospital is 1.7 km from the average home in Plateau
Straight-line distances from each part of Plateau, weighted by who lives there.
From Plateau 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Plateau’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Plateau’s region fits it, 82.9 years at 2.3 against the line’s 83.4. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 82.9. A household income of about $75,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (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.
Among 40 towns its size, Plateau is 9th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (13,913 to 14,467 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vieux-Limoilou QC A+ | 14,347 | 0.6 km | 62% |
| 2 | Sillery QC A+ | 13,950 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 3 | Sandwich ON B+ | 14,110 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 7 | Junction Area ON A | 14,205 | 1.4 km | 50% |
| 8 | River West ON B+ | 13,940 | 1.4 km | 52% |
| 9 | Plateau QC A+ | 14,176 | 1.7 km | 62% |
| 10 | Oakridge ON A | 13,913 | 1.7 km | 50% |
| 11 | Manor Park NS B+ | 14,148 | 1.8 km | 51% |
| 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 Plateau
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plateau | 1.7 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy 1.6 km | 3.1 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Louis 2.2 km | 1.4 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Cité-Universitaire 2.6 km | 1.0 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Cap-Rouge 3.6 km | 5.2 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| L'Aéroport 4.1 km | 5.3 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| L'Ancienne-Lorette 4.4 km | 3.9 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Plateau’s regional figures. Residents of L'Aéroport live further from a hospital, at 5.3 km against 1.7 km in Plateau.
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.
- 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. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Plateau’s own.
Questions about health in Plateau
How healthy is Plateau?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
What is the life expectancy in Plateau?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.7 for women, 81.1 for men around Plateau (2022/2024).
How is Plateau’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Plateau’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Plateau from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Plateau is 0.8 km from a clinic and 0.5 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).