Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Roxton Pond is ahead of 93% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Quebec: 57% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 57%. For Roxton Pond itself the measure is access, and it lags: 8.2 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Roxton Pond grades A for health, #114 of 503 in Quebec and #398 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Roxton Pond
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Roxton Pond’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.0 predicts: 82.9 years against 81.0. For its deprivation ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 19% of adults, diabetes for 9.1%. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Roxton Pond runs 1.4 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.2 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More people feeling well
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 ↓
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 Pond 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: #114 of 503 in Quebec and #398 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.9 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Roxton Pond’s, lies over the trend.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Roxton Pond’s region, at 3.0, outlives the trend’s 81.0 years with 82.9. It outlives 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 80.4 years. 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.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.1% diabetes
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
Self-reported obesity, 29%, sits within a few points of Quebec (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.
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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 3rd 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
This is the one part of the block measured for Roxton Pond itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 56% and 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health is close to the province’s: 63% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 20% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The nearest hospital is 8.2 km from the average home in Roxton Pond
Straight-line distances from each part of Roxton Pond, weighted by who lives there.
Roxton Pond 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Roxton Pond comes 25th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,778 to 4,989 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North End East ON B+ | 4,816 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Westdale South ON B+ | 4,931 | 0.5 km | 53% |
| 3 | Westmount AB B+ | 4,961 | 0.5 km | 51% |
| 23 | Lakewood Urban Centre SK B+ | 4,923 | 5.8 km | 49% |
| 24 | Baturyn AB B | 4,796 | 6.5 km | 51% |
| 25 | Roxton Pond QC A | 4,884 | 8.2 km | 57% |
| 26 | Cumberland BC B+ | 4,974 | 8.6 km | 54% |
| 27 | Bathurst NB C+ | 4,840 | 11 km | 49% |
| 40 | Saint-Agapit QC B+ | 4,817 | 23 km | 59% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Roxton Pond
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 Pond | 8.2 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton 8.3 km | 9.0 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Granby 9.6 km | 2.6 km | 57% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Valérien-de-Milton 9.7 km | 17 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford 11 km | 15 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Roxton 12 km | 22 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Shefford 12 km | 10 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Saint-Valérien-de-Milton’s life expectancy is 82.5, this region’s 82.9. Roxton is the furthest from care, 22 km to Roxton Pond’s 8.2 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Roxton Pond shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
Questions about health in Roxton Pond
How healthy is Roxton Pond?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
What is the life expectancy in Roxton Pond?
For the health region that includes Roxton Pond, women can expect 84.8 years and men 81.0 (2022/2024).
How is Roxton Pond’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Roxton Pond’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Roxton Pond from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Roxton Pond live: 1.9 km to a clinic, 1.9 km to 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).