Photo: Robert Garry · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 61% of adults around Sept-Îles; the typical Canadian town: 52%
Women in the region live to 82.1 and men to 77.0, 79.4 years taken together (2022/2024). What sets Sept-Îles apart within its region is distance, and at 4.6 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Health gives Sept-Îles a grade of B, #449 of 503 in Quebec and #1,575 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sept-Îles
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Sept-Îles, a child can expect 2.1 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.4 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A region that smokes more
Around Sept-Îles, 11% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Less chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 22% report high blood pressure and 9.1% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Sept-Îles 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: #449 of 503 in Quebec and #1,575 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.
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 15th 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
This is the one part of the block measured for Sept-Îles 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (9.1%)
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
At 37%, self-reported obesity is above Quebec’s 29%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% against 22%).
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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.2 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Sept-Îles’, lies over the trend.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Sept-Îles’ region, at 3.7, outlives the trend’s 78.2 years with 79.4. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 8, with 78.2 years in the middle.
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.
Getting to hospital from Sept-Îles: 4.6 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Sept-Îles, weighted by who lives there.
That is close to the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Sept-Îles goes. The centre of population is 1.0 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 4.6 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.
59% 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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (70% against 64%), while 16% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Sept-Îles is 24th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (23,380 to 25,554 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sault-au-Récollet QC A | 25,464 | 0.7 km | 54% |
| 2 | Cartierville QC A | 24,617 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 3 | Renfrew-Collingwood BC A+ | 23,392 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 22 | Milliken ON A | 24,431 | 3.2 km | 50% |
| 23 | Islington ON A− | 23,659 | 3.9 km | 50% |
| 24 | Sept-Îles QC B | 24,483 | 4.6 km | 61% |
| 25 | Huntsville ON B+ | 23,948 | 4.9 km | 54% |
| 26 | Panorama Hills AB A | 25,494 | 5.2 km | 56% |
| 40 | Essex ON B− | 23,872 | 22 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Sept-Îles
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept-Îles | 4.6 km | 61% | 79.4 | B |
| Uashat 27 1.6 km | 2.1 km | 61% | 79.4 | B+ |
| Maliotenam 13 km | 13 km | 61% | 79.4 | B |
Only the hospital column is local here: Sept-Îles and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Maliotenam live further from a hospital, at 13 km against 4.6 km in Sept-Îles.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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 Sept-Îles’ own.
- 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 Sept-Îles
How healthy is Sept-Îles?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Sept-Îles’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Sept-Îles has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Sept-Îles?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Sept-Îles’ health region only: 82.1 years for women and 77.0 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Sept-Îles from a hospital?
A clinic is 3.9 km from the average resident of Sept-Îles and a pharmacy 4.0 km, as the crow flies.
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).