Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Yamachiche, 61% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Women in the region live to 83.3 and men to 79.9, 81.6 years taken together (2022/2024). For Yamachiche itself the measure is access, and it lags: 8.7 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Yamachiche grades A− for health, #349 of 503 in Quebec and #1,008 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Yamachiche
Living past what deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.2, the trend across regions gives 80.0 years of life; Yamachiche’s region reaches 81.6. For its deprivation ↓
Harder circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Yamachiche at 4.2 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Long-term conditions run low
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 21% report high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Yamachiche 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: #349 of 503 in Quebec and #1,008 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.6 years more here
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Yamachiche’s dot is marked, above the line.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Yamachiche’s region beats it: 81.6 years against the 80.0 the trend gives a score of 3.2. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 7 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 80.5 years. The towns here bring in about $62,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (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
More adults report obesity than across Quebec: 34%, the province 29%. At 25%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 11th 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Yamachiche’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting to hospital from Yamachiche: 8.7 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Yamachiche’s 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, Yamachiche 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 59% 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 looks better than in the province too: 68% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 20% find most days quite stressful.
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: Yamachiche comes 23rd of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,761 to 2,841 people, median 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kuujjuaq QC | 2,766 | 0.7 km | – |
| 2 | Kameyosek AB B+ | 2,761 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Forestville QC B+ | 2,835 | 0.9 km | 61% |
| 21 | Mathers MB B+ | 2,785 | 4.2 km | 52% |
| 22 | Electoral Area H, Cowichan Valley BC B− | 2,761 | 4.3 km | 47% |
| 23 | Yamachiche QC A− | 2,801 | 8.7 km | 61% |
| 24 | Front of Yonge ON B− | 2,773 | 10 km | 51% |
| 25 | Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part ON C− | 2,770 | 13 km | 48% |
| 40 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints QC B | 2,841 | 76 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Yamachiche
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yamachiche | 8.7 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Louiseville 8.9 km | 1.4 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Saint-Barnabé 10 km | 16 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Maskinongé 15 km | 8.0 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Étienne-des-Grès 17 km | 11 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Sainte-Ursule 18 km | 12 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Charette 19 km | 16 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
Yamachiche and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Charette is the furthest from care, 16 km to Yamachiche’s 8.7 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Yamachiche’s own.
- 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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Yamachiche
How healthy is Yamachiche?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
How is Yamachiche’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 Yamachiche’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Yamachiche from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Yamachiche is 7.0 km from a clinic and 2.2 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Yamachiche?
For the health region that includes Yamachiche, 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).