Photo: Félix Mathieu-Bégin · CC BY-SA 4.0More adults feel healthy around Saint-Bernard: 59% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
Life expectancy in the region is 82.8 years (84.4 for women, 81.3 for men, 2022/2024). Measured from where Saint-Bernard’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 8.3 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Saint-Bernard grades A− for health, #343 of 503 in Quebec and #993 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Bernard
Longer lives in the region
Saint-Bernard’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 ↓
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-Bernard 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. Its place: #343 of 503 in Quebec and #993 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
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.
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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 5th place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
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-Bernard’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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 0.8 years
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Saint-Bernard’s lies above the line.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Saint-Bernard’s region beats it: 82.8 years against the 82.0 the trend gives a score of 2.7. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, a median of 81.4. Judged by income, around $75,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.2% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 31%, the province 29%. More adults drink heavily, 26% to the province’s 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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Bernard: 8.3 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Bernard, weighted by who lives there.
Saint-Bernard is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 57% 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
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Saint-Bernard is 19th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,642 to 2,719 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 8.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanna AB B− | 2,665 | 0.5 km | 52% |
| 2 | Sundre AB C+ | 2,683 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 2,671 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 17 | Grand Manan NB C− | 2,648 | 6.9 km | 43% |
| 18 | Swan Valley West MB C+ | 2,702 | 8.0 km | 51% |
| 19 | Saint-Bernard QC A− | 2,680 | 8.3 km | 59% |
| 20 | La Présentation QC A | 2,696 | 8.3 km | 55% |
| 21 | Saint-Mathieu QC A | 2,642 | 8.5 km | 55% |
| 40 | Tumbler Ridge BC D | 2,663 | 75 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Bernard
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Bernard | 8.3 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Scott 4.6 km | 5.2 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage 7.4 km | 15 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Isidore 8.6 km | 13 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Marie 11 km | 2.8 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
| Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon 11 km | 16 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage 11 km | 16 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
Every place around Saint-Bernard shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage is the furthest from care, 16 km to Saint-Bernard’s 8.3 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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-Bernard’s own.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Saint-Bernard
How healthy is Saint-Bernard?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How is Saint-Bernard’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-Bernard’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Bernard?
Women in Saint-Bernard’s region live to 84.4 on average and men to 81.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Saint-Bernard from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Bernard live: 1.6 km to a clinic, 1.6 km to a pharmacy.
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).