Photo: Adqproductions · CC BY-SA 3.0For health, Saint-Bruno is ahead of 92% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 66% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Quebec’s 57%. For Saint-Bruno itself the measure is access, and it lags: 8.4 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Saint-Bruno a grade of A, #180 of 503 in Quebec and #493 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Bruno
Upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 14.7 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 64% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Bruno 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: #180 of 503 in Quebec and #493 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 64% 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 (72% against 64%), while 14% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.4 years more here
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Saint-Bruno’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 3.1 at 80.4 years of life; Saint-Bruno’s region does better, at 81.8. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (9 of 10), with a median of 80.6. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $69,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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%)
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, 30%, sits within a few points of Quebec (29%). At 29%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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 8.4 km from the average home in Saint-Bruno
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Bruno’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Bruno 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
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 9th 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Saint-Bruno’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Saint-Bruno comes 28th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,889 to 2,982 people, median 5.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairview AB C− | 2,918 | 0.6 km | 48% |
| 2 | Black Diamond AB A+ | 2,910 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 3 | Moosomin SK C− | 2,906 | 1.1 km | 49% |
| 26 | Trillium ON B | 2,967 | 7.6 km | 53% |
| 27 | Saint-Isidore QC A | 2,889 | 8.3 km | 55% |
| 28 | Saint-Bruno QC A | 2,935 | 8.4 km | 66% |
| 29 | Black River-Matheson ON C− | 2,899 | 8.4 km | 48% |
| 30 | Electoral Area C, Strathcona BC B+ | 2,981 | 11 km | 54% |
| 40 | Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon QC B | 2,916 | 29 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Bruno
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-Bruno | 8.4 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Hébertville-Station 3.1 km | 11 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Saint-Gédéon 7.5 km | 8.5 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Alma 9.2 km | 2.8 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Hébertville 9.5 km | 15 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Larouche 10 km | 12 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Saint-Nazaire 13 km | 9.2 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
Around Saint-Bruno the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Hébertville is the furthest from care, 15 km to Saint-Bruno’s 8.4 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Bruno shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Saint-Bruno
How healthy is Saint-Bruno?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Saint-Bruno’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Bruno: 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-Bruno from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Bruno have a clinic 1.0 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.0 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Bruno?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.2 for women, 80.4 for men around Saint-Bruno (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).