Photo: abdallahh · CC BY 2.0Few places match Westmount for health: it beats 93% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 54%, behind the 57% for Quebec. What sets Westmount apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.9 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Westmount grades A for health, #126 of 503 in Quebec and #412 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Westmount
Living past what deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.0, the trend across regions gives 80.8 years of life; Westmount’s region reaches 83.4. For its deprivation ↓
A long-lived region
Born around Westmount, a child can expect 1.9 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.6 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Long-term conditions run low
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 15% of adults, diabetes for 7.3%. Conditions and habits ↓
Near a hospital
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Westmount: 1.2 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Westmount 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: #126 of 503 in Quebec and #412 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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 2.6 years ahead of the trend
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Westmount’s region is above the line.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Westmount’s region, at 3.0, outlives the trend’s 80.8 years with 83.4. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median is 80.2 years. Modest pay, about $68,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
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
The region comes 2nd 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 Westmount’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
High blood pressure for 15% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.3%
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
At 23%, self-reported obesity is below Quebec’s 29%. Heavy drinking is rarer (19% 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.
From Westmount, a hospital is 0.9 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Westmount’s own, not the region’s.
Westmount 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 55% 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
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 58% 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Westmount is 2nd nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 19,918 to 20,890 people, median 2.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Édouard-Montpetit QC A | 20,601 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Westmount QC A | 20,377 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 3 | Longue-Pointe QC A | 20,337 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 4 | Fort York-Liberty Village ON A | 20,071 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 40 | Quispamsis NB D | 20,240 | 17 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Westmount
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westmount | 0.9 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Saint-Henri 1.4 km | 1.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Montagne 1.9 km | 0.4 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Côte-Saint-Antoine 2.0 km | 1.1 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Édouard-Montpetit 2.2 km | 0.5 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Snowdon 2.4 km | 1.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Upper Lachine 2.5 km | 0.8 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
Around Westmount the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Westmount’s own.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Westmount
How is Westmount’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Westmount’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Westmount?
Women in Westmount’s region live to 85.5 on average and men to 81.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Westmount?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Westmount from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Westmount live: 0.8 km to a clinic, 0.7 km to 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).