Photo: Pofortin · CC BY-SA 3.0For health, Wendake is ahead of almost every Canadian town
Across the region, 62% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Quebec as a whole manages 57%. Measured from where Wendake’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 1.7 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. As a First Nations reserve, Wendake can be graded for health but gets no overall grade and no place in ranked lists. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Wendake. The Health grade for Wendake is A+.
What stands out about health in Wendake
Self-rated health runs high
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 10.1 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 61% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 18% of adults, diabetes for 7.2%. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Wendake runs 1.4 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.1 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Wendake has 5.3 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.6 km away. Getting care ↓
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.
Wendake 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 61% to 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
Mental health is close to the province’s: 66% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 22% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
18% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.2% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Self-reported obesity, 30%, 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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 3rd place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Wendake’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
The nearest hospital is 1.7 km from the average home in Wendake
Straight-line distances from each part of Wendake, weighted by who lives there.
Wendake is closer in 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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Wendake’s lies near the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.3 about 83.4 years; Wendake’s region’s 82.9 is within a year of it. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 82.9. 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.
Health in the places around Wendake
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wendake | 1.7 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Loretteville 1.5 km | 1.0 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Émile 2.2 km | 3.8 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Des Châtels 3.1 km | 1.3 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Lac-Saint-Charles 4.0 km | 5.5 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf 4.7 km | 2.8 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Val-Bélair 5.1 km | 4.4 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
Same region, same survey: Wendake’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Lac-Saint-Charles is the furthest from care, 5.5 km to Wendake’s 1.7 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Wendake shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Wendake
How healthy is Wendake?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
How is Wendake’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Wendake: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town. As a First Nations reserve it gets no overall grade, and the survey doesn’t interview people on reserves, so the regional figures don’t describe it.
What is the life expectancy in Wendake?
There is no figure for Wendake alone; its health region’s is 84.7 for women and 81.1 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Wendake from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Wendake is 1.7 km from a clinic and 1.6 km from a pharmacy.
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).