Photo: Simon Villeneuve · CC BY-SA 3.056% of adults around Saint-Cuthbert rate their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 82.0 years at birth, 83.7 for women and 80.3 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 18 km from the average resident of Saint-Cuthbert, further than the usual 3.7 km. Saint-Cuthbert grades B for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Cuthbert
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Saint-Cuthbert live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (18 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 3.1 on the deprivation index typically live 80.3 years; Saint-Cuthbert’s region, at 82.0, does better. For its deprivation ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Saint-Cuthbert sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Less chronic illness
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 ↓
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-Cuthbert 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.
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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Cuthbert: 18 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Cuthbert, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Saint-Cuthbert 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.
The region lives 1.7 years longer than its deprivation predicts
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Saint-Cuthbert’s region comes out above the trend.
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-Cuthbert’s region would be expected to reach 80.3 years; it reaches 82.0. It tops the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 80.9 years. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $81,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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.
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.
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
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-Cuthbert’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.
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
Mental health is no outlier: 64% say very good or excellent (Quebec: 64%) and 20% live with stressful 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-Cuthbert
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-Cuthbert | 18 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Norbert 6.8 km | 20 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Barthélemy 9.0 km | 17 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier 9.8 km | 9.4 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Berthierville 11 km | 7.8 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Sainte-Élisabeth 11 km | 10 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois 14 km | 14 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
Same region, same survey: Saint-Cuthbert’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Berthierville live nearer a hospital, at 7.8 km against 18 km in Saint-Cuthbert.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Cuthbert itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Cuthbert
How far is Saint-Cuthbert from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Cuthbert is 8.9 km from a clinic and 14 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Saint-Cuthbert?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How is Saint-Cuthbert’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-Cuthbert’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Cuthbert?
There is no figure for Saint-Cuthbert alone; its health region’s is 83.7 for women and 80.3 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).