Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Benjamin’s health region reports 59% in very good or excellent health, ahead of the typical Canadian town’s 52%
People in the region live to 82.8 on average: 84.4 for women and 81.3 for men in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 17 km from the average resident of Saint-Benjamin, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Benjamin a grade of B+.
What stands out about health in Saint-Benjamin
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Saint-Benjamin the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 15 km. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.0 out of 5, Saint-Benjamin sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Saint-Benjamin runs 1.3 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.0 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
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-Benjamin 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.
The nearest hospital is 17 km from the average home in Saint-Benjamin
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Benjamin’s own, not the region’s.
From Saint-Benjamin 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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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 5th.
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-Benjamin’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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 0.8 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Saint-Benjamin’s dot is marked, above the line.
At 2.7 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 82.0 years, and the region Saint-Benjamin belongs to reaches 82.8. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 9 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 81.4 years. Households here earn around $75,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.2%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 31%, sits within a few points of Quebec (29%). Heavy drinking runs above the province, 26% to 22%.
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 57% 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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 69% very good or excellent to 64%; 18% 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.
Health in the places around Saint-Benjamin
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-Benjamin | 17 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Prosper 9.5 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-des-Pins 11 km | 6.7 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne 11 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Beauceville 14 km | 2.7 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
| Saint-Georges 15 km | 2.8 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
| Lac-Etchemin 18 km | 31 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
Saint-Benjamin and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Lac-Etchemin live further from a hospital, at 31 km against 17 km in Saint-Benjamin.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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. 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. 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Benjamin itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Saint-Benjamin
How is Saint-Benjamin’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-Benjamin’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Saint-Benjamin?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How far is Saint-Benjamin from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Benjamin is 10 km from a clinic and 14 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Benjamin?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Benjamin’s health region only: 84.4 years for women and 81.3 for men (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).