Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Stoke scores better for health than 94% 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 Stoke itself the measure is access, and it lags: 7.7 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Stoke a grade of A, #105 of 503 in Quebec and #383 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Stoke
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Stoke’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
Stoke’s region sits 1.4 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.2 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs high
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 5.4 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 56% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Stoke 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: #105 of 503 in Quebec and #383 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.
1.9 more years of life than regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Stoke’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Stoke’s region beats it: 82.9 years against the 81.0 the trend gives a score of 3.0. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 80.4 years in the middle. A household income of about $67,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 29% report obesity, 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.
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
Ranked 3rd of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Stoke’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 56% to 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Asked about their mental health, 63% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Quebec it was 64%, and 20% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
From Stoke, a hospital is 7.7 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Stoke, weighted by who lives there.
Stoke 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: Stoke comes 24th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,223 to 3,319 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miller AB B+ | 3,294 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 2 | Marathon ON C | 3,223 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 3 | Mill Courtland Woodside Park ON A | 3,319 | 1.1 km | 53% |
| 22 | Wellington AB B | 3,314 | 4.6 km | 51% |
| 23 | Canossa AB B | 3,246 | 7.1 km | 51% |
| 24 | Stoke QC A | 3,272 | 7.7 km | 57% |
| 25 | Val-Morin QC A | 3,226 | 9.8 km | 60% |
| 26 | Coalhurst AB B− | 3,244 | 9.8 km | 52% |
| 40 | Hampton NB D | 3,268 | 27 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Stoke
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stoke | 7.7 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Ascot Corner 4.0 km | 6.1 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Sherbrooke 12 km | 3.7 km | 57% | 82.9 | A+ |
| East Angus 13 km | 16 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Westbury 15 km | 17 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Val-Joli 15 km | 16 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
| Cookshire-Eaton 16 km | 17 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
Only the hospital column is local here: Stoke and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Cookshire-Eaton is the furthest from care, 17 km to Stoke’s 7.7 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Stoke alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
Questions about health in Stoke
How healthy is Stoke?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Stoke?
For the health region that includes Stoke, women can expect 84.8 years and men 81.0 (2022/2024).
How far is Stoke from a hospital?
Residents of Stoke have a clinic 8.1 km away on average and a pharmacy 7.6 km away, in straight lines.
How is Stoke’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Stoke’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
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).