Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Beaupré scores better for health than 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 Beaupré’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 0.8 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Beaupré is A+, #1 of 503 in Quebec and #1 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Beaupré
More people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 10.1 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 61%. Health survey ↓
A lighter load of illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 18% report high blood pressure and 7.2% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Born around Beaupré, a child can expect 1.4 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.1 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Beaupré: 0.7 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.
Beaupré 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: #1 of 503 in Quebec and #1 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.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 61% very good or excellent, against 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
Stress touches 22% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 66%, the province 64% (Quebec).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
In the region, high blood pressure (18%) and diabetes (7.2%)
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
Obesity tracks the province: 30% of adults here, 29% across Quebec.
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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Beaupré’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.
Getting to hospital from Beaupré: 0.8 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Beaupré, weighted by who lives there.
Beaupré 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.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Beaupré’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.3 about 83.4 years; Beaupré’s region’s 82.9 is within a year of it. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 82.9 years. 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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Beaupré comes 2nd of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,242 to 4,388 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown SK B+ | 4,282 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Beaupré QC A+ | 4,314 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 3 | Claresholm AB A+ | 4,242 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 4 | Invermere BC B+ | 4,305 | 0.8 km | 57% |
| 40 | Eganville ON C− | 4,326 | 32 km | 50% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Beaupré
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaupré | 0.8 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré 3.4 km | 3.6 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Joachim 4.5 km | 4.3 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges 11 km | 7.1 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Château-Richer 13 km | 12 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Tite-des-Caps 14 km | 16 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans 14 km | 14 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
Around Beaupré the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Saint-Tite-des-Caps is the furthest from care, 16 km to Beaupré’s 0.8 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Beaupré alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Beaupré
How healthy is Beaupré?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
How is Beaupré’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 Beaupré’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Beaupré?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Beaupré’s health region only: 84.7 years for women and 81.1 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Beaupré from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Beaupré is 1.1 km from a clinic and 3.0 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).