Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Varennes is ahead of 88% of Canadian towns
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 55% very good or excellent, 57% for Quebec. Measured from where Varennes’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 8.0 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Varennes is A, #264 of 503 in Quebec and #763 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Varennes
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Born around Varennes, a child can expect 1.0 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.5 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
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.
Varennes 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: #264 of 503 in Quebec and #763 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.9% 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
At 32%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 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.
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
The region comes 6th of 18 in Quebec, where life expectancy runs from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Varennes’ own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Varennes’ region shows close to the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Varennes belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.7 predicts: 82.5 years, the trend 82.1. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 7, with 81.4 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 Varennes: 8.0 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Varennes’ own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Varennes is on the far side.
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.
54% 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
Mental health is close to the province’s: 64% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 23% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Varennes is 37th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 21,062 to 22,026 people, median 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Parkdale ON A | 21,663 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 2 | East L'Amoreaux ON A | 21,533 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | Englemount-Lawrence ON A | 21,455 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 35 | Old Barrhaven West ON A | 22,012 | 7.6 km | 56% |
| 36 | Colchester County, Subdivision B NS D | 21,578 | 7.8 km | 42% |
| 37 | Varennes QC A | 21,490 | 8.0 km | 55% |
| 38 | Middlesex Centre ON B+ | 21,689 | 9.6 km | 52% |
| 39 | Sturgeon County AB B− | 21,144 | 13 km | 51% |
| 40 | South Frontenac ON B− | 21,599 | 22 km | 53% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Varennes
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Varennes | 8.0 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Pointe-aux-Trembles 5.7 km | 3.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Charlemagne 7.4 km | 1.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Montréal-Est 7.9 km | 3.6 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Boucherville 8.6 km | 6.3 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Repentigny 9.7 km | 6.2 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Rivière-des-Prairies 10 km | 2.1 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Pointe-aux-Trembles’s life expectancy is 83.4, this region’s 82.5. Residents of Charlemagne live nearer a hospital, at 1.6 km against 8.0 km in Varennes.
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.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Varennes shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Varennes
How is Varennes’ Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Varennes’ own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Varennes?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Varennes?
For the health region that includes Varennes, women can expect 84.2 years and men 80.8 (2022/2024).
How far is Varennes from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.3 km from the average resident of Varennes and a pharmacy 0.9 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).