Photo: Municipalité de Wickham · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 61% of adults around Wickham; the typical Canadian town: 52%
Life expectancy in the region is 81.6 years (83.3 for women, 79.9 for men, 2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Wickham’s is long: 13 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Wickham grades A− for health, #388 of 503 in Quebec and #1,125 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Wickham
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Wickham the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 14 km. Getting care ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
At 81.6 years, Wickham’s region outlives the 80.0 that regions scoring 3.2 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Less chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 8.2%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Wickham 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: #388 of 503 in Quebec and #1,125 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.
Getting to hospital from Wickham: 13 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Wickham, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Wickham travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.6 years
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Wickham’s region is above the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 3.2 at 80.0 years of life; Wickham’s region does better, at 81.6. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 7, with 80.5 years in the middle. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $62,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.2%
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 34%, self-reported obesity is above Quebec’s 29%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% 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.
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
This region is 11th longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Wickham’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
59% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Quebec (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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 68% very good or excellent to 64%; 20% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Wickham is 26th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,712 to 2,773 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waterridge Village ON A+ | 2,737 | 0.6 km | 56% |
| 2 | Kuujjuaq QC | 2,766 | 0.7 km | – |
| 3 | Kameyosek AB B+ | 2,761 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 24 | Front of Yonge ON B− | 2,773 | 10 km | 51% |
| 25 | Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part ON C− | 2,770 | 13 km | 48% |
| 26 | Wickham QC A− | 2,745 | 13 km | 61% |
| 27 | Cultus Lake BC B− | 2,773 | 13 km | 47% |
| 28 | Gore QC A | 2,756 | 14 km | 60% |
| 40 | Waskaganish QC | 2,726 | 132 km | – |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Wickham
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wickham | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Théodore-d'Acton 7.7 km | 22 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Germain-de-Grantham 11 km | 8.6 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Drummondville 13 km | 3.4 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Saint-Eugène 14 km | 19 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Acton Vale 14 km | 26 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| L'Avenir 15 km | 18 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Saint-Théodore-d'Acton’s life expectancy is 82.5, this region’s 81.6. Residents of Acton Vale live further from a hospital, at 26 km against 13 km in Wickham.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Wickham itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
Questions about health in Wickham
How healthy is Wickham?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
How is Wickham’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Wickham has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Wickham from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Wickham live: 2.2 km to a clinic, 2.2 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Wickham?
For the health region that includes Wickham, women can expect 83.3 years and men 79.9 (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).