Photo: Benoit Rochon · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 55% of adults in Napierville’s health region
A baby born in the region can expect 82.5 years, 84.2 for a girl and 80.8 for a boy (2022/2024). What sets Napierville apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 19 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Napierville is A−, #386 of 503 in Quebec and #1,123 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Napierville
A long way to hospital
Residents of Napierville live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (19 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 ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Napierville runs 1.0 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.5 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Napierville 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: #386 of 503 in Quebec and #1,123 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.
The nearest hospital is 19 km from the average home in Napierville
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Napierville’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Napierville 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.9% 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
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.
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
The region comes 6th of 18 in Quebec, where life expectancy runs from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Napierville’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Napierville’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Use the deprivation index alone and Napierville’s region, at 2.7, should live about 82.1 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.5, near enough. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 7, with 81.4 years in the middle.
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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 54% to 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Quebec (64% against 64%), while 23% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Napierville is 40th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,118 to 4,256 people, median 4.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claresholm AB A+ | 4,242 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 2 | La Pocatière QC A | 4,206 | 0.9 km | 60% |
| 3 | Sunalta AB A+ | 4,151 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 38 | Carleton-sur-Mer QC C+ | 4,175 | 13 km | 56% |
| 39 | West River PE B− | 4,155 | 15 km | 51% |
| 40 | Napierville QC A− | 4,187 | 19 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Napierville
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Napierville | 19 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville 3.6 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu 8.4 km | 14 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur 8.4 km | 14 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Édouard 9.8 km | 18 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington 10 km | 27 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix 13 km | 24 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Napierville’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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 Napierville alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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 Napierville
How far is Napierville from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Napierville live: 1.0 km to a clinic, 12 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Napierville?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Napierville?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.2 for women, 80.8 for men around Napierville (2022/2024).
How is Napierville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Napierville’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
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).