Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Saint-Benoît-Labre, 59% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Women in the region live to 84.4 and men to 81.3, 82.8 years taken together (2022/2024). For Saint-Benoît-Labre itself the measure is access, and it lags: 9.4 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Saint-Benoît-Labre a grade of A−.
What stands out about health in Saint-Benoît-Labre
A long way to hospital
Residents of Saint-Benoît-Labre live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (8.4 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.0 out of 5, Saint-Benoît-Labre sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Longer lives in the region
Saint-Benoît-Labre’s region sits 1.3 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Benoît-Labre 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.
From Saint-Benoît-Labre, a hospital is 9.4 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Benoît-Labre, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Benoît-Labre 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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 5th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Saint-Benoît-Labre’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 0.8 years ahead of the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Saint-Benoît-Labre’s lies above the line.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 2.7, Saint-Benoît-Labre’s region would be expected to reach 82.0 years; it reaches 82.8. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (9 of 10, median 81.4 years). Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $75,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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
At 31%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 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
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 69% very good or excellent to 64%, with 18% facing stressful 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-Benoît-Labre
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-Benoît-Labre | 9.4 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Georges 10 km | 2.8 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
| Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley 11 km | 20 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Victor 13 km | 11 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-René 13 km | 11 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce 14 km | 20 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-des-Pins 14 km | 6.7 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
Around Saint-Benoît-Labre the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce live further from a hospital, at 20 km against 9.4 km in Saint-Benoît-Labre.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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-Benoît-Labre’s own.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
Questions about health in Saint-Benoît-Labre
How healthy is Saint-Benoît-Labre?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Benoît-Labre?
Women in Saint-Benoît-Labre’s region live to 84.4 on average and men to 81.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Saint-Benoît-Labre from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Benoît-Labre live: 2.8 km to a clinic, 10 km to a pharmacy.
How is Saint-Benoît-Labre’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Benoît-Labre: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with 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).