Photo: Alchimist · CC BY-SA 3.0For health, Rimouski is ahead of 86% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 60% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Rimouski live 4.1 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Rimouski grades A for health, #290 of 503 in Quebec and #867 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Rimouski
More people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 8.5 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (58% as answered). Health survey ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Rimouski has 4.3 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.5 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Rimouski 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: #290 of 503 in Quebec and #867 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 58% 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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (72% against 64%), while 17% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting to hospital from Rimouski: 4.1 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Rimouski, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care Rimouski is ordinary: 5.3 km is the typical figure in Quebec, 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 1.2 km, while the average resident is 4.1 km away.
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.
1.5 more years of life than regions as deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Rimouski’s, lies over the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.2, the expected figure is 80.2 years, and Rimouski’s region does better with 81.7. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 8 of 10; their median is 80.9 years. Judged by income, around $63,000 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.
High blood pressure for 24% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.4%
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, 30% 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
This region is 10th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Rimouski’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.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Rimouski comes 21st of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (43,877 to 60,874 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sault-Saint-Louis QC A | 47,270 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 2 | Saint-Eustache QC A+ | 47,562 | 1.4 km | 60% |
| 3 | Cornwall ON B− | 54,346 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 19 | Victoriaville QC A | 49,863 | 3.9 km | 61% |
| 20 | Roseborough ON A− | 54,539 | 4.0 km | 49% |
| 21 | Rimouski QC A | 51,756 | 4.1 km | 60% |
| 22 | Shawinigan QC A | 51,739 | 4.5 km | 61% |
| 23 | Dollard-Des Ormeaux QC A | 50,246 | 4.5 km | 54% |
| 40 | Lakeshore ON B− | 45,954 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Rimouski
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rimouski | 4.1 km | 60% | 81.7 | A |
| Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard 7.3 km | 8.8 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
| Sainte-Luce 18 km | 16 km | 60% | 81.7 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Rimouski’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Sainte-Luce live further from a hospital, at 16 km against 4.1 km in Rimouski.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Rimouski shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Rimouski
How healthy is Rimouski?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Rimouski’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Rimouski’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Rimouski?
Women in Rimouski’s region live to 83.1 on average and men to 80.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Rimouski from a hospital?
For everyday care, Rimouski’s residents are 1.5 km from a pharmacy and 1.7 km from a clinic on average.
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).