Photo: Pierre Bona · CC BY-SA 3.0Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer around Saint-Armand (14% against 17% for the typical Canadian town)
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 57% very good or excellent, 57% for Quebec. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Armand’s is long: 28 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Saint-Armand is A−.
What stands out about health in Saint-Armand
Far from a hospital
For 28% of homes in Saint-Armand the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 29 km. Getting care ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
Regions scoring 3.0 on the deprivation index typically live 81.0 years; Saint-Armand’s region, at 82.9, does better. For its deprivation ↓
A long-lived region
Born around Saint-Armand, a child can expect 1.4 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs high
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 5.4 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 56%. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Armand 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.
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-Armand: 28 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Armand, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Saint-Armand travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.9 years
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Saint-Armand’s lies above the line.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Saint-Armand’s region, at 3.0, outlives the trend’s 81.0 years with 82.9. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, a median of 80.4. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $67,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 3rd place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Saint-Armand itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 56% 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
For 20% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 63% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Quebec’s 64%.
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 9.1% 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
Obesity tracks the province: 29% of adults here, 29% across Quebec.
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.
Health in the places around Saint-Armand
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-Armand | 28 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Venise-en-Québec 9.5 km | 30 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Bedford 11 km | 20 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville 11 km | 33 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Henryville 17 km | 23 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
Venise-en-Québec falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 82.5 against 82.9 here.
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-Armand’s own.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Saint-Armand
How far is Saint-Armand from a hospital?
A clinic is 11 km from the average resident of Saint-Armand and a pharmacy 8.6 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Saint-Armand?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
How is Saint-Armand’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Armand has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Armand?
Women in Saint-Armand’s region live to 84.8 on average and men to 81.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).