Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Bonaventure’s health region reports 61% in very good or excellent health, ahead of the typical Canadian town’s 52%
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.6, with women at 83.3 and men at 79.9. Closer to home, a hospital is 17 km from the average resident of Saint-Bonaventure, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Saint-Bonaventure is B+.
What stands out about health in Saint-Bonaventure
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Saint-Bonaventure live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (17 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
At 81.6 years, Saint-Bonaventure’s region outlives the 80.0 that regions scoring 3.2 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Long-term conditions run low
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 21% report high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes. 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-Bonaventure 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-Bonaventure
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Bonaventure’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Saint-Bonaventure travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.6 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Saint-Bonaventure’s dot is marked, above the line.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Saint-Bonaventure’s region beats it: 81.6 years against the 80.0 the trend gives a score of 3.2. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 7 of 10; their median is 80.5 years. Judged by income, around $62,000 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.
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 34%, self-reported obesity is above Quebec’s 29%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% against 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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
This region is 11th longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
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-Bonaventure’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.
59% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Quebec (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 looks better than in the province too: 68% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 20% find most days quite 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-Bonaventure
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-Bonaventure | 17 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham 8.7 km | 9.9 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Guillaume 9.4 km | 22 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Germain-de-Grantham 15 km | 8.6 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Pierreville 17 km | 20 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-François-du-Lac 17 km | 20 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Eugène 17 km | 19 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
Every place around Saint-Bonaventure shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- 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-Bonaventure’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Bonaventure
How healthy is Saint-Bonaventure?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
How is Saint-Bonaventure’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Bonaventure has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Bonaventure from a hospital?
For everyday care, Saint-Bonaventure’s residents are 13 km from a pharmacy and 13 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Bonaventure?
There is no figure for Saint-Bonaventure alone; its health region’s is 83.3 for women and 79.9 for men in 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).