Health in Stukely-Sud · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer around Stukely-Sud (14% against 17% for the typical Canadian town)
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 57%; Quebec as a whole is at 57%. For Stukely-Sud itself the measure is access, and it lags: 22 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Stukely-Sud grades A− for health.
Residents of Stukely-Sud live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (21 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (3.0), Stukely-Sud’s region gains years: 82.9 where the trend says 81.0. For its deprivation ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Stukely-Sud 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 ↓
Self-rated health runs high
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 5.4 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 56%. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Stukely-Sud 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.
Very good or excellent health (57%)Better than 79% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (14%)Better than 95% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 67% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (82.9)Better than 93% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (22 km)Better than 21% of Canadian towns
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 care
From Stukely-Sud, a hospital is 22 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Stukely-Sud’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
22 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
8.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
6.7 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Stukely-Sud is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
1.9 years above the line for regions this deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Stukely-Sud’s region shows above the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.0, Stukely-Sud’s region would be expected to reach 81.0 years; it reaches 82.9. It outlives 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 80.4 years. The towns here bring in about $67,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
The wider area
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
82.9
years at birth, 2022/2024
21.2
more years expected at 65
3rd
longest of 18 regions in Quebec
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Région de Laval84.1
Région de Montréal83.4
Région de la Capitale-Nationale82.9
Région de l'Estrie82.9
Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches82.8
Région de la Montérégie82.5
Région des Laurentides82.2
Région de Lanaudière82.0
Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean81.8
Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent81.7
Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec81.6
Région de l'Outaouais80.7
Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine79.9
Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue79.5
Région de la Côte-Nord79.4
Région du Nord-du-Québec78.1
Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James76.8
Région du Nunavik65.2
This region is 3rd 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
Residential instability2.4
Economic dependency3.6
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability2.5
The index is context and never graded: it describes Stukely-Sud’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 56% and 56%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
56%
Health fair or poor
11%
Mental health very good or excellent
63%
Mental health fair or poor
8.1%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
56%
Satisfied with life
90%
Quebec
Mental health is no outlier: 63% say very good or excellent (Quebec: 64%) and 20% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.1%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
19%
Arthritis
19%
Diabetes
9.1%
Obese (self-reported)
29%
Mood disorder
8.8%
Anxiety disorder
11%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
9.9%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
27%
Quebec
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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Stukely-Sud
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Around Stukely-Sud the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Orford is the closest to care, 9.2 km to Stukely-Sud’s 22 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Stukely-Sud alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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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 Stukely-Sud
How far is Stukely-Sud from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Stukely-Sud live: 8.1 km to a clinic, 6.7 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Stukely-Sud?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Stukely-Sud?
Women in Stukely-Sud’s region live to 84.8 on average and men to 81.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Stukely-Sud’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Stukely-Sud’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
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