Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 55% of adults in Yamaska’s health region
Lives in the region last 82.5 years on average (2022/2024): 84.2 for women, 80.8 for men. For Yamaska itself the measure is access, and it lags: 13 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Yamaska grades A− for health.
What stands out about health in Yamaska
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Yamaska live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (14 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Yamaska at 4.7 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
A long-lived region
Yamaska’s region sits 1.0 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.5 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
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.
Yamaska 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.
From Yamaska, a hospital is 13 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Yamaska’s own, not the region’s.
Yamaska 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.9% 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
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 32% report obesity, the province 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.
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 Yamaska’s 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.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Yamaska’s, follows the trend.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.7 would be expected to reach 82.1 years, and Yamaska’s region is close, at 82.5. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (7 of 10, median 81.4 years).
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.
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Mental health reads like the rest of Quebec: 64% against 64%, and 23% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Yamaska
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yamaska | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Robert 4.7 km | 9.4 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-François-du-Lac 9.8 km | 20 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel 11 km | 3.9 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Pierreville 11 km | 20 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel 14 km | 9.1 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Sorel-Tracy 16 km | 3.4 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Saint-François-du-Lac’s life expectancy is 81.6, this region’s 82.5. Sorel-Tracy is the closest to care, 3.4 km to Yamaska’s 13 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Yamaska alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Yamaska
How is Yamaska’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 Yamaska’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Yamaska from a hospital?
A clinic is 13 km from the average resident of Yamaska and a pharmacy 13 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Yamaska?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Yamaska?
For the health region that includes Yamaska, women can expect 84.2 years and men 80.8 (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).