Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Rigaud, 55% of adults call their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 82.5 years at birth, 84.2 for women and 80.8 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Rigaud’s is long: 22 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Rigaud a grade of B+, #399 of 503 in Quebec and #1,177 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Rigaud
Far from a hospital
Residents of Rigaud live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (21 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Rigaud, 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 ↓
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.
Rigaud 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: #399 of 503 in Quebec and #1,177 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.
The nearest hospital is 22 km from the average home in Rigaud
Straight-line distances from each part of Rigaud, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Rigaud 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.9% diabetes
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
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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
The region comes 6th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Rigaud’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Rigaud’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
At 2.7 on the index, regions tend to reach 82.1 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Rigaud belongs to reaches 82.5. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 54% and 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
For 23% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 64% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Quebec’s 64%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Rigaud is 37th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (8,075 to 8,308 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | G-Section (bramalea) ON A− | 8,224 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 2 | Wolseley MB B+ | 8,127 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 3 | Ponoka AB C+ | 8,212 | 1.2 km | 52% |
| 35 | Plattsville ON C+ | 8,251 | 14 km | 49% |
| 36 | Alnwick/Haldimand ON C | 8,197 | 18 km | 49% |
| 37 | Rigaud QC B+ | 8,187 | 22 km | 55% |
| 38 | Vermilion River County AB C− | 8,282 | 23 km | 52% |
| 39 | Argyle NS D− | 8,216 | 23 km | 44% |
| 40 | Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est NB C | 8,138 | 32 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Rigaud
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rigaud | 22 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Très-Saint-Rédempteur 6.4 km | 25 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Placide 8.8 km | 18 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Sainte-Marthe 9.2 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-André-d'Argenteuil 11 km | 11 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Hudson 12 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Kanesatake 14 km | 16 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
Across a regional line, Saint-Placide has its own figures: life expectancy 82.2, against 82.5 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Rigaud’s own.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Rigaud
How far is Rigaud from a hospital?
Residents of Rigaud have a clinic 2.6 km away on average and a pharmacy 2.2 km away, in straight lines.
How is Rigaud’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Rigaud: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Rigaud?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Rigaud?
Women in Rigaud’s region live to 84.2 on average and men to 80.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).