Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.061% of adults around Saint-Boniface call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Women in the region live to 83.3 and men to 79.9, 81.6 years taken together (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 6.7 km from the average resident of Saint-Boniface, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Boniface a grade of A−, #327 of 503 in Quebec and #968 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Boniface
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
At 81.6 years, Saint-Boniface’s region outlives the 80.0 that regions scoring 3.2 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Less chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 8.2%. 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-Boniface 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: #327 of 503 in Quebec and #968 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.
1.6 years above the line for regions this deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Saint-Boniface’s region shows above the trend.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Saint-Boniface’s region sits above it: 81.6 years where a score of 3.2 predicts 80.0. It outlives 7 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 80.5 years. A household income of about $62,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes
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.
The nearest hospital is 6.7 km from the average home in Saint-Boniface
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Boniface’s own, not the region’s.
Nothing unusual for Saint-Boniface here: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital and 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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 11th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Saint-Boniface’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
More people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 59% to 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (68% against 64%), while 20% call most days 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-Boniface is 21st nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 5,311 to 5,491 people, median 6.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hillview AB B+ | 5,473 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | West Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 5,386 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 3 | Stonewall MB C | 5,443 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 19 | Woodlands AB A | 5,391 | 5.3 km | 56% |
| 20 | Wingham ON B | 5,411 | 5.8 km | 45% |
| 21 | Saint-Boniface QC A− | 5,405 | 6.7 km | 61% |
| 22 | The Ravines of Rainbow Creek ON A− | 5,333 | 6.7 km | 51% |
| 23 | Garner ON B | 5,456 | 6.8 km | 53% |
| 40 | Deer Lake NL D | 5,319 | 45 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Boniface
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-Boniface | 6.7 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Charette 8.0 km | 16 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Étienne-des-Grès 8.4 km | 11 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Élie-de-Caxton 9.2 km | 16 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel 11 km | 7.8 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Shawinigan 11 km | 4.5 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc 12 km | 8.1 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
Saint-Boniface and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Charette live further from a hospital, at 16 km against 6.7 km in Saint-Boniface.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Boniface itself is the trip to care.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
Questions about health in Saint-Boniface
How healthy is Saint-Boniface?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
How is Saint-Boniface’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Boniface: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Boniface from a hospital?
For everyday care, Saint-Boniface’s residents are 1.6 km from a pharmacy and 1.5 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Boniface?
There is no figure for Saint-Boniface 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).