Photo: Gilles Douaire · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Saint-Édouard, 55% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Lives in the region last 82.5 years on average (2022/2024): 84.2 for women, 80.8 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 18 km from the average resident of Saint-Édouard, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Saint-Édouard is A−.
What stands out about health in Saint-Édouard
Far from a hospital
Residents of Saint-Édouard live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (20 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 9.9%. Conditions and habits ↓
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Saint-Édouard at 4.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Saint-Édouard runs 1.0 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.5 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Édouard 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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Édouard: 18 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Édouard’s own, not the region’s.
From Saint-Édouard that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 32%, 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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 6th 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Saint-Édouard’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Saint-Édouard’s region comes out on the trend.
At 2.7 on the index, regions tend to reach 82.1 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Saint-Édouard belongs to reaches 82.5. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 81.4.
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.
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (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-Édouard
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-Édouard | 18 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Michel 5.1 km | 18 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington 5.5 km | 27 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur 9.3 km | 14 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Rémi 9.4 km | 15 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville 9.7 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Napierville 9.8 km | 19 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
Only the hospital column is local here: Saint-Édouard and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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-Édouard’s own.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
Questions about health in Saint-Édouard
How far is Saint-Édouard from a hospital?
For everyday care, Saint-Édouard’s residents are 8.6 km from a pharmacy and 9.1 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Saint-Édouard?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Édouard?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.2 for women, 80.8 for men around Saint-Édouard (2022/2024).
How is Saint-Édouard’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-Édouard’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
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).