Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0More adults feel healthy around Vallée-Jonction: 59% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 82.8, with women at 84.4 and men at 81.3. Closer to home, a hospital is 14 km from the average resident of Vallée-Jonction, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Vallée-Jonction is A−.
What stands out about health in Vallée-Jonction
Far from a hospital
Distance is Vallée-Jonction’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 14 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Vallée-Jonction, a child can expect 1.3 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.0 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Vallée-Jonction 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.
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 Vallée-Jonction: 14 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Vallée-Jonction’s own, not the region’s.
Vallée-Jonction 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 5th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Vallée-Jonction’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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 0.8 years more here
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Vallée-Jonction’s, lies over the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.7, the expected figure is 82.0 years, and Vallée-Jonction’s region does better with 82.8. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 9 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 81.4 years. On income alone, around $75,000 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.2%)
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, 31%, sits within a few points of Quebec (29%). Heavy drinking is commoner too (26% 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 57% 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
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 69% very good or excellent to 64%, with 18% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Vallée-Jonction
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vallée-Jonction | 14 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saints-Anges 5.8 km | 15 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce 8.4 km | 13 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Frédéric 8.4 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Sainte-Marie 11 km | 2.8 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
| Saint-Elzéar 11 km | 6.9 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Frampton 13 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Vallée-Jonction’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Sainte-Marie is the closest to care, 2.8 km to Vallée-Jonction’s 14 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Vallée-Jonction’s own.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Vallée-Jonction
How healthy is Vallée-Jonction?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Vallée-Jonction from a hospital?
A clinic is 0.7 km from the average resident of Vallée-Jonction and a pharmacy 10 km, as the crow flies.
How is Vallée-Jonction’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Vallée-Jonction’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Vallée-Jonction?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.4 for women, 81.3 for men around Vallée-Jonction (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).