Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Very good or excellent health for 55% of adults in Saint-Clet’s health region
Women in the region live to 84.2 and men to 80.8, 82.5 years taken together (2022/2024). Measured from where Saint-Clet’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 13 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Clet a grade of A−.
What stands out about health in Saint-Clet
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Saint-Clet’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 13 km. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Harder circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Saint-Clet at 4.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Saint-Clet, a child can expect 1.0 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.5 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Clet 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.
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.
From Saint-Clet, a hospital is 13 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Clet’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Saint-Clet 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.9%
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
Obesity tracks the province: 32% of adults here, 29% across Quebec.
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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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 6th 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Saint-Clet’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.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Saint-Clet’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.7 would be expected to reach 82.1 years, and Saint-Clet’s region is close, at 82.5. It outlives 7 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 81.4 years.
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 54% and 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Neither ahead nor behind Quebec on mental health (64% to 64%), the region has 23% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Saint-Clet
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-Clet | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Coteau-du-Lac 6.7 km | 6.2 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Sainte-Marthe 6.9 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Lazare 7.5 km | 17 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Les Coteaux 9.5 km | 7.3 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Polycarpe 9.8 km | 15 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Les Cèdres 12 km | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
The neighbours all sit in Saint-Clet’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Sainte-Marthe live further from a hospital, at 21 km against 13 km in Saint-Clet.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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-Clet’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.
- 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. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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-Clet
How far is Saint-Clet from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Clet live: 7.5 km to a clinic, 6.9 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Saint-Clet?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
How is Saint-Clet’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Clet: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Clet?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Clet’s health region only: 84.2 years for women and 80.8 for men (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).