Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Saint-Anicet, 55% of adults call their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 82.5, with women at 84.2 and men at 80.8. For Saint-Anicet itself the measure is access, and it lags: 23 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Saint-Anicet grades B+ for health, #407 of 503 in Quebec and #1,210 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Anicet
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Saint-Anicet the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 23 km. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 9.9%. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Saint-Anicet, a child can expect 1.0 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.5 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Anicet 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: #407 of 503 in Quebec and #1,210 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-Anicet: 23 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Anicet’s own, not the region’s.
Saint-Anicet is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 32%, sits within a few points of Quebec (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
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Saint-Anicet’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Saint-Anicet’s region comes out on the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Saint-Anicet’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. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 81.4.
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.
54% 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
On mental health the region tracks Quebec, 64% very good or excellent to 64%; 23% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Saint-Anicet comes 33rd of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,820 to 2,887 people, median 4.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westmount SK A− | 2,872 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 2 | Forestville QC B+ | 2,835 | 0.9 km | 61% |
| 3 | McKernan AB B+ | 2,880 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 31 | Labelle QC A | 2,861 | 21 km | 60% |
| 32 | Head of St Margarets Bay NS B− | 2,885 | 22 km | 51% |
| 33 | Saint-Anicet QC B+ | 2,854 | 23 km | 55% |
| 34 | Sicamous BC C− | 2,854 | 25 km | 48% |
| 35 | Laurier-Station QC B | 2,838 | 32 km | 59% |
| 40 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints QC B | 2,841 | 76 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Anicet
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-Anicet | 23 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Rivière-Beaudette 12 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Sainte-Barbe 12 km | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Godmanchester 14 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Zotique 15 km | 9.5 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Huntingdon 17 km | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| South Glengarry 17 km | 13 km | 49% | 81.0 | C+ |
Across a regional line, South Glengarry has its own figures: life expectancy 81.0, against 82.5 here. Residents of Saint-Zotique live nearer a hospital, at 9.5 km against 23 km in Saint-Anicet.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Anicet alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Saint-Anicet
How far is Saint-Anicet from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Anicet have a clinic 11 km away on average and a pharmacy 11 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Saint-Anicet?
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 Saint-Anicet?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Anicet’s health region only: 84.2 years for women and 80.8 for men (2022/2024).
How is Saint-Anicet’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Saint-Anicet’s homes are from a hospital, 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).