Photo: Miguel Tremblay · CC0Saint-Côme sits a long way from hospital care: 37 km for the average resident
Self-rated health is ordinary for Quebec: 56% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 57%. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 3.8 km away on average and 0.5 of them within 3 km of a typical home. The Health grade for Saint-Côme is B, #484 of 503 in Quebec and #1,910 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Côme
More years than its deprivation would give
Set against regions as deprived (3.1), Saint-Côme’s region gains years: 82.0 where the trend says 80.3. For its deprivation ↓
Self-rated health runs high
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.6 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 55%. Health survey ↓
Less chronic illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Côme 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. Its place: #484 of 503 in Quebec and #1,910 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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.7 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Saint-Côme’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.1, Saint-Côme’s region would be expected to reach 80.3 years; it reaches 82.0. No region among the 10 scored most like it does better; they centre on 80.9 years. Modest pay, about $81,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 55% to 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
Stress touches 20% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 64%, the province 64% (Quebec).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.2%
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
More adults report obesity than across Quebec: 33%, the province 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.
Everyday care in Saint-Côme: the nearest pharmacy 3.8 km away, 0.5 within 3 km
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Côme, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Saint-Côme 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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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
The region comes 8th of 18 in Quebec, where life expectancy runs from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
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-Côme’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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Saint-Côme comes 37th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,770 to 2,853 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 8.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forestville QC B+ | 2,835 | 0.9 km | 61% |
| 2 | Grimshaw AB C− | 2,799 | 1.3 km | 48% |
| 3 | Downtown West End AB A+ | 2,796 | 1.3 km | 56% |
| 35 | Laurier-Station QC B | 2,838 | 32 km | 59% |
| 36 | Addington Highlands ON B− | 2,827 | 36 km | 53% |
| 37 | Saint-Côme QC B | 2,810 | 37 km | 56% |
| 38 | Weedon QC A− | 2,845 | 38 km | 57% |
| 39 | Atikokan ON D | 2,796 | 72 km | 44% |
| 40 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints QC B | 2,841 | 76 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-Côme
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-Côme | 37 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie 12 km | 34 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez 13 km | 24 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Béatrix 16 km | 21 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Jean-de-Matha 18 km | 24 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Damien 19 km | 34 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
One health region covers Saint-Côme and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Côme alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Côme
How far is Saint-Côme from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Côme is 3.7 km from a clinic and 3.8 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Saint-Côme?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Saint-Côme’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Saint-Côme’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Côme?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Côme’s health region only: 83.7 years for women and 80.3 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).