Photo: Société du patrimoine des Beaucerons - Fonds PR86 - Collection Chantale Gilbert pl. 1, no 1 · Public domainAround Saint-Elzéar, 59% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Life expectancy in the region is 82.8 years (84.4 for women, 81.3 for men, 2022/2024). For Saint-Elzéar itself the measure is access, and it lags: 6.9 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Saint-Elzéar grades A− for health, #326 of 503 in Quebec and #960 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Elzéar
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Saint-Elzéar runs 1.3 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.0 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-Elzéar 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: #326 of 503 in Quebec and #960 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.
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 5th 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Saint-Elzéar’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 0.8 years
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Saint-Elzéar’s region comes out above the trend.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 2.7 at 82.0 years of life; Saint-Elzéar’s region does better, at 82.8. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (9 of 10, median 81.4 years). The towns here bring in about $75,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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 9.2%
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
At 31%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 29%. At 26%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 22%.
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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Elzéar: 6.9 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Elzéar’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Elzéar is on the far side.
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.
57% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (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 beats Quebec as well: 69% very good or excellent to 64%, with 18% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Saint-Elzéar is 23rd nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,808 to 2,878 people, median 5.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westmount SK A− | 2,872 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 2 | Forestville QC B+ | 2,835 | 0.9 km | 61% |
| 3 | Minnedosa MB B− | 2,859 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 21 | Bridgeport North ON A | 2,858 | 5.0 km | 53% |
| 22 | O'Leary PE B | 2,878 | 6.3 km | 51% |
| 23 | Saint-Elzéar QC A− | 2,842 | 6.9 km | 59% |
| 24 | Leeming ON B− | 2,849 | 8.2 km | 53% |
| 25 | Saint-Prime QC A | 2,808 | 14 km | 66% |
| 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-Elzéar
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-Elzéar | 6.9 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Marie 6.0 km | 2.8 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
| Scott 11 km | 5.2 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Vallée-Jonction 11 km | 14 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage 12 km | 16 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Bernard 12 km | 8.3 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Frédéric 13 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
Only the hospital column is local here: Saint-Elzéar and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Saint-Frédéric is the furthest from care, 19 km to Saint-Elzéar’s 6.9 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Elzéar shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Saint-Elzéar
How is Saint-Elzéar’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Elzéar’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Saint-Elzéar?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Elzéar?
There is no figure for Saint-Elzéar alone; its health region’s is 84.4 for women and 81.3 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Saint-Elzéar from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Elzéar is 6.2 km from a clinic and 5.2 km from a pharmacy.
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).