Photo: Noppen, Luc, 1949 · CC BY-SA 4.0Cap-Saint-Ignace scores better for health than 89% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 59% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec’s 57%. What sets Cap-Saint-Ignace apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 2.4 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Cap-Saint-Ignace a grade of A, #259 of 503 in Quebec and #736 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cap-Saint-Ignace
More people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 7.2 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (57% as answered). Health survey ↓
A long-lived region
Cap-Saint-Ignace’s region sits 1.3 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Cap-Saint-Ignace 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: #259 of 503 in Quebec and #736 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 57% and 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 69% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 18% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 5th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Cap-Saint-Ignace’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Cap-Saint-Ignace’s dot is marked, above the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.7, the expected figure is 82.0 years, and Cap-Saint-Ignace’s region does better with 82.8. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, a median of 81.4. A household income of about $75,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.2% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 31%, the province 29%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (26% 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.
The nearest hospital is 2.4 km from the average home in Cap-Saint-Ignace
Straight-line distances from each part of Cap-Saint-Ignace, weighted by who lives there.
From Cap-Saint-Ignace that is nearer than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Cap-Saint-Ignace comes 13th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,029 to 3,124 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tisdale SK C− | 3,052 | 0.7 km | 47% |
| 2 | Princeton BC B+ | 3,050 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Leslie Park - Bruce Farm ON A+ | 3,056 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 11 | Alpine ON A | 3,055 | 1.6 km | 53% |
| 12 | Bisset AB B+ | 3,049 | 1.9 km | 51% |
| 13 | Cap-Saint-Ignace QC A | 3,074 | 2.4 km | 59% |
| 14 | Rosedale ON B | 3,070 | 2.6 km | 53% |
| 15 | Crawford Plains AB B | 3,075 | 2.7 km | 51% |
| 40 | Elkford BC B− | 3,030 | 55 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cap-Saint-Ignace
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Cap-Saint-Ignace’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of L'Islet live further from a hospital, at 11 km against 2.4 km in Cap-Saint-Ignace.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Cap-Saint-Ignace alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Cap-Saint-Ignace
How healthy is Cap-Saint-Ignace?
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 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Cap-Saint-Ignace?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.4 for women, 81.3 for men around Cap-Saint-Ignace (2022/2024).
How is Cap-Saint-Ignace’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Cap-Saint-Ignace: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Cap-Saint-Ignace from a hospital?
Residents of Cap-Saint-Ignace have a clinic 2.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 11 km away, in straight lines.
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).