Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Sillery scores better for health than almost every Canadian town
In the health survey, 62% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Quebec’s 57%. For Sillery itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 0.8 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Sillery is A+, #7 of 503 in Quebec and #8 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sillery
Self-rated health runs high
Even once age is allowed for, 10.1 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (61% as answered). Health survey ↓
Less chronic illness
High blood pressure (18%) and diabetes (7.2%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Sillery’s region sits 1.4 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.1 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Sillery: 0.5 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Sillery 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: #7 of 503 in Quebec and #8 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.
61% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in 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
Stress touches 22% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 66%, the province 64% (Quebec).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
High blood pressure for 18% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.2%
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
At 30%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 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
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Sillery’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
From Sillery, a hospital is 0.8 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sillery’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Sillery are closer 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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Sillery’s dot is marked, close to the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.3 about 83.4 years; Sillery’s region’s 82.9 is within a year of it. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 82.9. Judged by income, around $75,000 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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Sillery comes 1st of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 13,635 to 14,275 people, median 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sillery QC A+ | 13,950 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 2 | Sandwich ON B+ | 14,110 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Greenwood-Coxwell ON A | 14,146 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 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 Sillery
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sillery | 0.8 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Sacrement 2.1 km | 0.4 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Cité-Universitaire 2.5 km | 1.0 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Louis 3.3 km | 1.4 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Montcalm 3.4 km | 1.0 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Lévis 3.5 km | 4.1 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
| Saint-Sauveur 3.8 km | 0.7 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Lévis’s life expectancy is 82.8, this region’s 82.9. Lévis is the furthest from care, 4.1 km to Sillery’s 0.8 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Sillery alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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. 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 Sillery
How healthy is Sillery?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Sillery?
Women in Sillery’s region live to 84.7 on average and men to 81.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Sillery from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.2 km from the average resident of Sillery and a pharmacy 0.6 km, as the crow flies.
How is Sillery’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Sillery’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
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).