Photo: Cell82 · CC BY-SA 3.0Less long-term illness in Richmond’s health region: 14% on the three conditions, the typical Canadian town 17%
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Quebec, 57% against 57%. For Richmond itself the measure is access, and it lags: 21 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Richmond a grade of A−, #340 of 503 in Quebec and #986 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Richmond
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Richmond the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 21 km. Getting care ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
At 82.9 years, Richmond’s region outlives the 81.0 that regions scoring 3.0 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Longer lives in the region
Richmond’s region sits 1.4 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.2 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Upbeat about their health
Even once age is allowed for, 5.4 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (56% as answered). Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Richmond 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: #340 of 503 in Quebec and #986 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 Richmond, a hospital is 21 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Richmond’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Richmond 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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.9 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Richmond’s dot is marked, above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.0 on the index, the line expects 81.0 years; Richmond’s region reaches 82.9. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 80.4 years in the middle. On income alone, around $67,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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
This region is 3rd longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
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 Richmond’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 56% 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
Asked about their mental health, 63% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Quebec it was 64%, and 20% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (9.1%)
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, 29% 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.
Richmond is 35th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,355 to 3,477 people, median 5.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lynnwood AB B+ | 3,452 | 0.4 km | 51% |
| 2 | Virginia Park AB B+ | 3,431 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Havre-Saint-Pierre QC B+ | 3,389 | 1.2 km | 61% |
| 33 | Richmond County, Subdivision C NS D | 3,444 | 19 km | 49% |
| 34 | Sables-Spanish Rivers ON C− | 3,412 | 20 km | 51% |
| 35 | Richmond QC A− | 3,419 | 21 km | 57% |
| 36 | Shuniah ON D | 3,458 | 23 km | 49% |
| 37 | Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap BC C− | 3,475 | 29 km | 48% |
| 40 | Lewisporte NL D | 3,405 | 45 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Richmond
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond | 21 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Cleveland 2.6 km | 18 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Melbourne 2.7 km | 26 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Durham-Sud 14 km | 27 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Windsor 15 km | 17 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey 15 km | 21 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton 16 km | 17 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Durham-Sud’s life expectancy is 81.6, this region’s 82.9.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Richmond’s own.
- 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 Richmond
How far is Richmond from a hospital?
A clinic is 0.7 km from the average resident of Richmond and a pharmacy 0.7 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Richmond?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Richmond?
Women in Richmond’s region live to 84.8 on average and men to 81.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Richmond’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Richmond’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).