Photo: Cephas · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Saint-Émile is ahead of almost every Canadian town
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 62% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.8 km from the average resident of Saint-Émile, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Émile a grade of A+, #26 of 503 in Quebec and #31 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Émile
More people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 10.1 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (61% as answered). Health survey ↓
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: 18% report high blood pressure and 7.2% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Saint-Émile runs 1.4 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.1 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Saint-Émile can reach 4.7 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.8 km off. Getting care ↓
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.
Saint-Émile 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: #26 of 503 in Quebec and #31 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 61% 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
The region’s 66% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Quebec’s 64%, with 22% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
High blood pressure for 18% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
At 30%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 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
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
Ranked 3rd of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
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; Saint-Émile’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.
From Saint-Émile, a hospital is 3.8 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Émile, weighted by who lives there.
Against 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Émile sits near the middle.
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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Saint-Émile’s region comes out on the trend.
At 2.3 on the index, regions tend to reach 83.4 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Saint-Émile belongs to reaches 82.9. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 82.9 years. The towns here bring in about $75,000 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Saint-Émile comes 27th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (16,400 to 17,391 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Côte-Saint-Paul QC A | 16,403 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | La Visitation QC A | 17,166 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Davie Village BC A+ | 16,833 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 25 | Laurentian West ON A | 16,857 | 3.5 km | 53% |
| 26 | Greektown BC A+ | 16,618 | 3.6 km | 50% |
| 27 | Saint-Émile QC A+ | 16,893 | 3.8 km | 62% |
| 28 | Saint-Michel QC A+ | 17,303 | 4.4 km | 62% |
| 29 | Tracadie NB B− | 16,453 | 4.7 km | 49% |
| 40 | Sooke BC A− | 17,248 | 23 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Émile
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Émile | 3.8 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Wendake 2.2 km | 1.7 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Loretteville 3.4 km | 1.0 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Orsainville 3.8 km | 6.0 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf 4.0 km | 2.8 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides 4.1 km | 7.5 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Lac-Saint-Charles 4.4 km | 5.5 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
Same region, same survey: Saint-Émile’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides is the furthest from care, 7.5 km to Saint-Émile’s 3.8 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Émile shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Saint-Émile
How healthy is Saint-Émile?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Émile?
For the health region that includes Saint-Émile, women can expect 84.7 years and men 81.1 (2022/2024).
How is Saint-Émile’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Émile’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Saint-Émile from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Émile have a clinic 3.0 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.8 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).