Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domainExpect 79.5 years of life in the region around Rouyn-Noranda, 2.0 under the typical Canadian town
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 57% very good or excellent, 57% for Quebec. Measured from where Rouyn-Noranda’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 7.1 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Rouyn-Noranda is B, #485 of 503 in Quebec and #1,912 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Rouyn-Noranda
More smokers
Around Rouyn-Noranda, 14% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
More people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 5.7 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.
Rouyn-Noranda 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: #485 of 503 in Quebec and #1,912 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.8%)
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
More adults report obesity than across Quebec: 37%, the province 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.
56% 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
Stress touches 18% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 65%, the province 64% (Quebec).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Rouyn-Noranda’s region is near the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Rouyn-Noranda belongs to lives about as long as its score of 3.5 predicts: 79.5 years, the trend 79.0. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 8 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 78.7 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.
From Rouyn-Noranda, a hospital is 7.1 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Rouyn-Noranda’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Rouyn-Noranda 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. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 1.8 km, while the average resident is 7.1 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.
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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 14th place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Rouyn-Noranda’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Rouyn-Noranda comes 35th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 37,901 to 49,388 people, median 3.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Côte-Saint-Luc QC A | 37,901 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 2 | Yaletown BC A+ | 40,297 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 3 | Sault-Saint-Louis QC A | 47,270 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 33 | Boucherville QC A | 41,910 | 6.3 km | 55% |
| 34 | Sullivan BC A | 42,135 | 6.5 km | 50% |
| 35 | Rouyn-Noranda QC B | 43,270 | 7.1 km | 57% |
| 36 | Paris ON C+ | 45,565 | 7.3 km | 43% |
| 37 | West Vancouver BC A+ | 47,929 | 7.5 km | 59% |
| 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.
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: Rouyn-Noranda shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
Questions about health in Rouyn-Noranda
How healthy is Rouyn-Noranda?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Rouyn-Noranda?
Women in Rouyn-Noranda’s region live to 81.6 on average and men to 77.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Rouyn-Noranda’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Rouyn-Noranda: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Rouyn-Noranda from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Rouyn-Noranda is 3.5 km from a clinic and 6.6 km from a pharmacy.
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).