Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0Around Saint-Charles-Borromée, 56% of adults call their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 82.0, with women at 83.7 and men at 80.3. Measured from where Saint-Charles-Borromée’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 1.6 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Charles-Borromée a grade of A−, #328 of 503 in Quebec and #969 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Charles-Borromée
Living past what deprivation predicts
Regions scoring 3.1 on the deprivation index typically live 80.3 years; Saint-Charles-Borromée’s region, at 82.0, does better. 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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Charles-Borromée 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: #328 of 503 in Quebec and #969 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.
1.7 years above the line for regions this deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Saint-Charles-Borromée’s dot is marked, above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.1 on the index, the line expects 80.3 years; Saint-Charles-Borromée’s region reaches 82.0. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median is 80.9 years. Households here earn around $81,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (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
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
Self-reported obesity, 33%, tops Quebec (29%).
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.
From Saint-Charles-Borromée, a hospital is 1.6 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Charles-Borromée, weighted by who lives there.
Saint-Charles-Borromée is closer in 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.
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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 8th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Saint-Charles-Borromée’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 55% and 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Quebec (64% 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-Charles-Borromée is 15th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (16,400 to 17,391 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Côte-Saint-Paul QC A | 16,403 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | La Visitation QC A | 17,166 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Davie Village BC A+ | 16,833 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 13 | Saint-Édouard QC A | 16,771 | 1.4 km | 54% |
| 14 | Cowansville QC A+ | 17,269 | 1.6 km | 57% |
| 15 | Saint-Charles-Borromée QC A− | 16,904 | 1.6 km | 56% |
| 16 | Étienne Desmarteaux QC A | 16,603 | 1.7 km | 54% |
| 17 | Willowdale West ON A | 17,210 | 1.7 km | 50% |
| 40 | Sooke BC A− | 17,248 | 23 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Charles-Borromée
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-Charles-Borromée | 1.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies 2.6 km | 2.5 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Joliette 3.6 km | 1.3 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes 4.6 km | 5.8 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare 6.3 km | 7.8 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Paul 6.5 km | 4.2 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Crabtree 8.9 km | 6.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
The neighbours all sit in Saint-Charles-Borromée’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare is the furthest from care, 7.8 km to Saint-Charles-Borromée’s 1.6 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Charles-Borromée itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Charles-Borromée
How is Saint-Charles-Borromée’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Charles-Borromée: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Saint-Charles-Borromée?
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-Charles-Borromée?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.7 for women, 80.3 for men around Saint-Charles-Borromée (2022/2024).
How far is Saint-Charles-Borromée from a hospital?
A clinic is 0.9 km from the average resident of Saint-Charles-Borromée and a pharmacy 1.3 km, as the crow flies.
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).