Photo: Nicolas Raymond from Bethesda, Maryland, USA · CC BY 2.056% of adults around Rawdon rate their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 82.0, with women at 83.7 and men at 80.3. What sets Rawdon apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 21 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Rawdon is B, #465 of 503 in Quebec and #1,771 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Rawdon
A long way to hospital
Distance is Rawdon’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 21 km. Getting care ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
At 82.0 years, Rawdon’s region outlives the 80.3 that regions scoring 3.1 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Rawdon’s neighbourhoods average 4.4 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. 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.
Rawdon grades B 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: #465 of 503 in Quebec and #1,771 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.
Getting to hospital from Rawdon: 21 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Rawdon, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Rawdon 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.
1.7 more years of life than regions as deprived
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Rawdon’s lies above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.1 on the index, the line expects 80.3 years; Rawdon’s region reaches 82.0. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure is 80.9 years. The towns here bring in about $81,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%)
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
At 33%, self-reported obesity is above 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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 8th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Rawdon 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.
55% 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
Neither ahead nor behind Quebec on mental health (64% to 64%), the region has 20% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Rawdon comes 39th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (12,880 to 13,331 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yonge-Bay Corridor ON A | 12,888 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | Downtown AB B+ | 12,880 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 3 | Corso Italia-Davenport ON A | 13,215 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 37 | Erin ON B | 12,924 | 15 km | 51% |
| 38 | Bonnyville No. 87 AB D | 13,265 | 16 km | 48% |
| 39 | Rawdon QC B | 13,099 | 21 km | 56% |
| 40 | Sainte-Julienne QC B | 12,990 | 21 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Rawdon
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rawdon | 21 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Julienne 9.7 km | 21 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare 12 km | 15 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Chertsey 13 km | 30 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Alexis 13 km | 17 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez 13 km | 24 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Liguori 14 km | 10 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Rawdon’s regional figures. Saint-Liguori is the closest to care, 10 km to Rawdon’s 21 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Rawdon’s own.
- 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. 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.
Questions about health in Rawdon
How far is Rawdon from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Rawdon is 2.9 km from a clinic and 3.3 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Rawdon?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How is Rawdon’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Rawdon has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Rawdon?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Rawdon’s health region only: 83.7 years for women and 80.3 for men (2022/2024).
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).