Photo: Nicogag · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Antonin’s health region reports 60% in very good or excellent health, ahead of the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Lives in the region last 81.7 years on average (2022/2024): 83.1 for women, 80.3 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Antonin’s is long: 7.8 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Saint-Antonin a grade of A−, #332 of 503 in Quebec and #974 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Saint-Antonin 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: #332 of 503 in Quebec and #974 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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.5 years
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Saint-Antonin’s region’s dot is above the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.2, the expected figure is 80.2 years, and Saint-Antonin’s region does better with 81.7. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (8 of 10), with a median of 80.9. A household income of about $63,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (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.
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.4% 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
Self-reported obesity, 30%, 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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Antonin: 7.8 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Antonin’s own, not the region’s.
From Saint-Antonin 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
Ranked 10th 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Saint-Antonin’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 58% and 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: 72% very good or excellent to 64%, with 17% facing stressful days.
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-Antonin comes 25th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,540 to 4,721 people, median 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Country Hills ON A | 4,561 | 0.5 km | 53% |
| 2 | Raymond AB B | 4,594 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 3 | Jasper AB C− | 4,627 | 1.0 km | 48% |
| 23 | Carlisle AB B | 4,609 | 5.3 km | 51% |
| 24 | Britannia ON A− | 4,641 | 5.8 km | 49% |
| 25 | Saint-Antonin QC A− | 4,633 | 7.8 km | 60% |
| 26 | Berthierville QC A− | 4,591 | 7.8 km | 56% |
| 27 | Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare QC A− | 4,615 | 7.8 km | 56% |
| 40 | Electoral Area P (Rivers and the Peaks), Thompson-Nicola BC C− | 4,540 | 28 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Antonin
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-Antonin | 7.8 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
| Saint-Modeste 7.0 km | 10 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
| Rivière-du-Loup 7.7 km | 1.8 km | 60% | 81.7 | A |
| Notre-Dame-du-Portage 9.4 km | 7.8 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
| Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska 14 km | 16 km | 60% | 81.7 | B+ |
| Cacouna 15 km | 11 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
| Saint-Arsène 17 km | 13 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Saint-Antonin’s regional figures. Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska is the furthest from care, 16 km to Saint-Antonin’s 7.8 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Antonin alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Saint-Antonin
How healthy is Saint-Antonin?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How is Saint-Antonin’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Antonin has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Antonin from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Antonin have a clinic 2.7 km away on average and a pharmacy 7.3 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Antonin?
For the health region that includes Saint-Antonin, women can expect 83.1 years and men 80.3 (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).