Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Saint-Agapit, 59% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
People in the region live to 82.8 on average: 84.4 for women and 81.3 for men in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 23 km from the average resident of Saint-Agapit, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Saint-Agapit is B+, #434 of 503 in Quebec and #1,429 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Agapit
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Saint-Agapit’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 23 km. Getting care ↓
A long-lived region
Saint-Agapit’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.
Saint-Agapit grades B+ 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: #434 of 503 in Quebec and #1,429 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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Agapit: 23 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Agapit’s own, not the region’s.
From Saint-Agapit that is further 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.
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
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Saint-Agapit’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 0.8 years
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Saint-Agapit’s region comes out above the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Saint-Agapit’s region, at 2.7, should live about 82.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.8. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, a median of 81.4. Households here earn around $75,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.2%
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 31%, the province 29%. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 26% to 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.
57% 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
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 69% very good or excellent to 64%, with 18% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Saint-Agapit is 37th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,715 to 4,923 people, median 5.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North End East ON B+ | 4,816 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Central McDougall AB B+ | 4,802 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 3 | Barrhead AB C− | 4,768 | 0.7 km | 48% |
| 35 | Grand Valley ON B− | 4,759 | 21 km | 51% |
| 36 | Guysborough NS D | 4,721 | 22 km | 49% |
| 37 | Saint-Agapit QC B+ | 4,817 | 23 km | 59% |
| 38 | Marmora ON D | 4,761 | 24 km | 45% |
| 39 | Dundas NB C | 4,733 | 27 km | 43% |
| 40 | Hampton NB D | 4,754 | 32 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Agapit
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-Agapit | 23 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Apollinaire 7.1 km | 22 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Gilles 9.2 km | 24 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Flavien 12 km | 33 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Laurier-Station 15 km | 32 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly 15 km | 25 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon 17 km | 16 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Saint-Agapit’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Saint-Agapit’s own.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Agapit
How far is Saint-Agapit from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Agapit have a clinic 1.1 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.1 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Saint-Agapit?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Agapit?
There is no figure for Saint-Agapit alone; its health region’s is 84.4 for women and 81.3 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Saint-Agapit’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Agapit’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).