Photo: Alain Hardy · CC BY 3.0Health in Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard beats 92% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 60% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Quebec as a whole manages 57%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard’s is long: 12 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard a grade of A, #155 of 503 in Quebec and #453 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard
More people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 8.0 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 58%. Health survey ↓
Far from a hospital
Residents of Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (12 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run low
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 19% of adults, diabetes for 8.1%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard 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: #155 of 503 in Quebec and #453 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.
58% 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Quebec (66% against 64%), while 20% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.1% 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
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 29%, 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.
The nearest hospital is 12 km from the average home in Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard is on the far side.
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.
1.0 years above the line for regions this deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard’s region comes out above the trend.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard’s region beats it: 82.2 years against the 81.2 the trend gives a score of 2.9. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median is 80.9 years. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $81,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 7th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard comes 28th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,903 to 4,048 people, median 5.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stinson ON B+ | 3,969 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 2 | Swan River MB B− | 4,048 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Leila North MB B+ | 3,966 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 26 | Keswick AB B | 3,957 | 9.2 km | 51% |
| 27 | New Richmond QC C+ | 3,947 | 11 km | 56% |
| 28 | Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard QC A | 3,974 | 12 km | 60% |
| 29 | Okanagan Falls BC B | 4,002 | 14 km | 52% |
| 30 | Callander ON C− | 4,021 | 15 km | 47% |
| 40 | Forty Mile County No. 8 AB C | 3,927 | 29 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard
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-Adolphe-d'Howard | 12 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Wentworth-Nord 12 km | 21 km | 60% | 82.2 | A− |
| Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts 12 km | 2.0 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Morin-Heights 12 km | 17 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Val-Morin 13 km | 9.8 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Val-David 14 km | 6.7 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Saint-Sauveur 16 km | 17 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
Around Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts is the closest to care, 2.0 km to Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard’s 12 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard
How healthy is Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 13% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard: 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 Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard from a hospital?
For everyday care, Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard’s residents are 3.6 km from a pharmacy and 3.6 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.7 for women, 80.8 for men around Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard (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).