Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Roxton Falls, 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 Roxton Falls’ is long: 24 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Roxton Falls grades B+ for health.
What stands out about health in Roxton Falls
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Roxton Falls the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 23 km. 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 ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Roxton Falls’ neighbourhoods average 4.3 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Roxton Falls runs 1.0 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.5 more years (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.
Roxton Falls 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.
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.
Getting to hospital from Roxton Falls: 24 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Roxton Falls, weighted by who lives there.
Roxton Falls is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (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
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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 6th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Roxton Falls’ 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.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Roxton Falls’ dot is marked, close to the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Roxton Falls’ region is a typical case: 82.5 years at a score of 2.7, where the trend says 82.1. 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.
54% 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
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.
Health in the places around Roxton Falls
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roxton Falls | 24 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Roxton 3.4 km | 22 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Acton Vale 8.5 km | 26 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford 13 km | 15 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Saint-Valérien-de-Milton 14 km | 17 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Théodore-d'Acton 15 km | 22 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Upton 15 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford’s life expectancy is 82.9, this region’s 82.5.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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. 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. Only the distances on this page belong to Roxton Falls alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Roxton Falls
How far is Roxton Falls from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Roxton Falls is 9.1 km from a clinic and 0.6 km from a pharmacy.
How is Roxton Falls’ Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Roxton Falls: 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 Roxton Falls?
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 Roxton Falls?
For the health region that includes Roxton Falls, women can expect 84.2 years and men 80.8 (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).