Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Richelieu is ahead of 85% of Canadian towns
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 55% very good or excellent, 57% for Quebec. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Richelieu’s is long: 11 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Richelieu is A, #308 of 503 in Quebec and #922 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Richelieu
A long way to hospital
Distance is Richelieu’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 11 km. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Born around Richelieu, a child can expect 1.0 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.5 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Richelieu 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: #308 of 503 in Quebec and #922 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.
From Richelieu, a hospital is 11 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Richelieu’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Richelieu 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.9%
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 32% of adults against 29% for 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.
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
Ranked 6th of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Richelieu’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Richelieu’s lies near the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Richelieu’s region, at 2.7, should live about 82.1 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.5, near enough. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (7 of 10, median 81.4 years).
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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 54% 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
Stress touches 23% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 64%, the province 64% (Quebec).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Richelieu is 35th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 5,948 to 6,139 people, median 3.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pleasant Hill SK A− | 6,088 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Civic Hospital ON A+ | 6,091 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 3 | South Walkerville ON B+ | 6,129 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 33 | Dunluce AB B | 6,079 | 7.1 km | 51% |
| 34 | Cumberland ON A | 6,139 | 10 km | 56% |
| 35 | Richelieu QC A | 6,048 | 11 km | 55% |
| 36 | Cumberland County, Subdivision C NS D | 6,040 | 12 km | 42% |
| 37 | Saint-Pie QC A− | 6,085 | 13 km | 55% |
| 40 | Stettler County No. 6 AB C | 5,966 | 18 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Richelieu
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richelieu | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Chambly 4.3 km | 12 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu 4.8 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Marieville 5.9 km | 14 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Carignan 6.8 km | 12 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Basile-le-Grand 10 km | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Bienville 11 km | 9.0 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
One health region covers Richelieu and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Richelieu shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Richelieu
How healthy is Richelieu?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Richelieu from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Richelieu is 1.3 km from a clinic and 1.5 km from a pharmacy.
How is Richelieu’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Richelieu 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 Richelieu?
There is no figure for Richelieu alone; its health region’s is 84.2 for women and 80.8 for men in 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).