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Photo: O. Allard · Public domainAround Saint-Barthélemy, 56% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 82.0 years (83.7 for women, 80.3 for men, 2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Barthélemy’s is long: 17 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Saint-Barthélemy a grade of B.
What stands out about health in Saint-Barthélemy
Far from a hospital
Distance is Saint-Barthélemy’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 18 km. Getting care ↓
More years than its deprivation would give
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.1, would put Saint-Barthélemy’s region near 80.3 years; it reaches 82.0. For its deprivation ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Saint-Barthélemy, a pharmacy is 16 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Saint-Barthélemy 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.
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-Barthélemy: 17 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Barthélemy, weighted by who lives there.
From Saint-Barthélemy 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.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 1.7 years of life
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Saint-Barthélemy’s dot is marked, above the line.
At 3.1 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 80.3 years, and the region Saint-Barthélemy belongs to reaches 82.0. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median is 80.9 years. Modest pay, about $81,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.2%
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
At 33%, self-reported obesity is above Quebec’s 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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 8th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Saint-Barthélemy’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
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: 55% 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 20% 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-Barthélemy
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-Barthélemy | 17 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Cuthbert 9.0 km | 18 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Maskinongé 10 km | 8.0 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Sainte-Ursule 13 km | 12 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Norbert 13 km | 20 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Berthierville 13 km | 7.8 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier 15 km | 9.4 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
Maskinongé falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 81.6 against 82.0 here. Berthierville is the closest to care, 7.8 km to Saint-Barthélemy’s 17 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- 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.
- 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. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Barthélemy alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Saint-Barthélemy
How is Saint-Barthélemy’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Saint-Barthélemy’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Barthélemy from a hospital?
For everyday care, Saint-Barthélemy’s residents are 16 km from a pharmacy and 4.2 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Saint-Barthélemy?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Barthélemy?
For the health region that includes Saint-Barthélemy, women can expect 83.7 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).