Photo: Gordalmighty · Public domainHealth in Saint-Barnabé-Sud beats 85% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Quebec: 55% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 57%. Closer to home, a hospital is 11 km from the average resident of Saint-Barnabé-Sud, further than the usual 3.7 km. Saint-Barnabé-Sud grades A for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Barnabé-Sud
Far from a hospital
Residents of Saint-Barnabé-Sud live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (9.2 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Saint-Barnabé-Sud’s neighbourhoods average 4.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Saint-Barnabé-Sud, 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-Barnabé-Sud 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.
The nearest hospital is 11 km from the average home in Saint-Barnabé-Sud
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Barnabé-Sud’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Barnabé-Sud is on the far side.
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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.9%
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 32% report obesity, the province 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.
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 6th 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Saint-Barnabé-Sud’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
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Saint-Barnabé-Sud’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.7 about 82.1 years; Saint-Barnabé-Sud’s region’s 82.5 is within a year of it. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 81.4 years.
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 54% and 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health reads like the rest of Quebec: 64% against 64%, and 23% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Saint-Barnabé-Sud
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Barnabé-Sud | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Simon 7.4 km | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Jude 7.5 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Hugues 10 km | 20 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Hyacinthe 10 km | 2.1 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| La Présentation 11 km | 8.3 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Liboire 16 km | 15 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
The neighbours all sit in Saint-Barnabé-Sud’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Saint-Hugues is the furthest from care, 20 km to Saint-Barnabé-Sud’s 11 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Barnabé-Sud itself is the trip to care.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Saint-Barnabé-Sud
How healthy is Saint-Barnabé-Sud?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Saint-Barnabé-Sud from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Barnabé-Sud is 6.5 km from a clinic and 10 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Barnabé-Sud?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.2 for women, 80.8 for men around Saint-Barnabé-Sud (2022/2024).
How is Saint-Barnabé-Sud’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-Barnabé-Sud’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).