Health in Saint-Arsène · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 60% of adults around Saint-Arsène; the typical Canadian town: 52%
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.7, with women at 83.1 and men at 80.3. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Arsène’s is long: 13 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Saint-Arsène a grade of A−.
Residents of Saint-Arsène live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (14 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Saint-Arsène 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.
Very good or excellent health (60%)Better than 91% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 64% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.7)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (13 km)Better than 46% of Canadian towns
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 care
The nearest hospital is 13 km from the average home in Saint-Arsène
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Arsène’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
13 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
6.6 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
12 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Saint-Arsène that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.5 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Saint-Arsène’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.2 on the index, the line expects 80.2 years; Saint-Arsène’s region reaches 81.7. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 8, with 80.9 years in the middle. The towns here bring in about $63,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 24% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.4%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
24%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
9.4%
Obese (self-reported)
30%
Mood disorder
6.5%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
30%
Quebec
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 30% of adults against 29% for 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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
81.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.2
more years expected at 65
10th
longest of 18 regions in Quebec
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Région de Laval84.1
Région de Montréal83.4
Région de la Capitale-Nationale82.9
Région de l'Estrie82.9
Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches82.8
Région de la Montérégie82.5
Région des Laurentides82.2
Région de Lanaudière82.0
Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean81.8
Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent81.7
Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec81.6
Région de l'Outaouais80.7
Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine79.9
Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue79.5
Région de la Côte-Nord79.4
Région du Nord-du-Québec78.1
Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James76.8
Région du Nunavik65.2
This region is 10th longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.4
Economic dependency2.2
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability2.4
The index is context and never graded: it describes Saint-Arsène’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 58% 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
Health very good or excellent
58%
Health fair or poor
11%
Mental health very good or excellent
72%
Mental health fair or poor
4.1%
Most days quite a bit stressful
17%
Strong sense of belonging
68%
Satisfied with life
90%
Quebec
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 72% very good or excellent to 64%; 17% 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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Saint-Arsène
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Around Saint-Arsène the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Rivière-du-Loup is the closest to care, 1.8 km to Saint-Arsène’s 13 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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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-Arsène’s own.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Saint-Arsène
How healthy is Saint-Arsène?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
How far is Saint-Arsène from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Arsène have a clinic 6.6 km away on average and a pharmacy 12 km away, in straight lines.
How is Saint-Arsène’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Arsène 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-Arsène?
Women in Saint-Arsène’s region live to 83.1 on average and men to 80.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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