Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.055% of adults around Verchères rate their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 82.5 years, 84.2 for a girl and 80.8 for a boy (2022/2024). What sets Verchères apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 13 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Verchères grades A− for health, #337 of 503 in Quebec and #983 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Verchères
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Verchères the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 13 km. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run low
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 9.9%. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Verchères runs 1.0 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.5 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Verchères 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: #337 of 503 in Quebec and #983 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.
The nearest hospital is 13 km from the average home in Verchères
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Verchères’ own, not the region’s.
Verchères 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%)
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 32% of adults against 29% for Quebec.
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 6th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Verchères’ residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Verchères’ region is near the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Verchères’ region fits it, 82.5 years at 2.7 against the line’s 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 54% 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
Neither ahead nor behind Quebec on mental health (64% to 64%), the region has 23% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Verchères comes 33rd of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 5,714 to 5,931 people, median 3.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vieux-Québec—Cap-Blanc—Colline parlementaire QC A+ | 5,764 | 0.7 km | 62% |
| 2 | Central Frederick ON A | 5,895 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 3 | Boyle Street AB B+ | 5,862 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 31 | Brokenhead MB C− | 5,931 | 9.9 km | 50% |
| 32 | Sainte-Martine QC A | 5,884 | 11 km | 55% |
| 33 | Verchères QC A− | 5,819 | 13 km | 55% |
| 34 | Electoral Area A, Bulkley-Nechako BC D | 5,829 | 13 km | 42% |
| 35 | East Ferris ON C− | 5,835 | 15 km | 47% |
| 40 | Electoral Area B, Peace River BC D | 5,814 | 47 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Verchères
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verchères | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Sulpice 6.2 km | 16 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Repentigny 7.3 km | 6.2 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| L'Assomption 10.0 km | 14 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Charlemagne 12 km | 1.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Varennes 12 km | 8.0 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Lavaltrie 13 km | 18 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Saint-Sulpice’s life expectancy is 82.0, this region’s 82.5. Charlemagne is the closest to care, 1.6 km to Verchères’ 13 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Verchères shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Verchères
How is Verchères’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Verchères has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Verchères from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Verchères live: 1.2 km to a clinic, 1.3 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Verchères?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Verchères?
There is no figure for Verchères alone; its health region’s is 84.2 for women and 80.8 for men in 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).