Photo: Richard Mc Neil · CC BY 3.061% of adults around Saint-Eugène call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
A baby born in the region can expect 81.6 years, 83.3 for a girl and 79.9 for a boy (2022/2024). For Saint-Eugène itself the measure is access, and it lags: 19 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Saint-Eugène grades B+ for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Eugène
Far from a hospital
Distance is Saint-Eugène’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 18 km. Getting care ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.2, the trend across regions gives 80.0 years of life; Saint-Eugène’s region reaches 81.6. For its deprivation ↓
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Saint-Eugène at 4.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
A lighter load of 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-Eugène 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.
From Saint-Eugène, a hospital is 19 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Eugène, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Saint-Eugène 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.6 years more here
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Saint-Eugène’s region is above the line.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.2, Saint-Eugène’s region would be expected to reach 80.0 years; it reaches 81.6. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 80.5 years. On income alone, around $62,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes
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 34%, self-reported obesity is above Quebec’s 29%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% against 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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 11th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Saint-Eugène itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
59% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in 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: 68% very good or excellent to 64%, with 20% facing 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-Eugène
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-Eugène | 19 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot 7.7 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Germain-de-Grantham 9.2 km | 8.6 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Guillaume 13 km | 22 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Théodore-d'Acton 13 km | 22 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Wickham 14 km | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Hugues 14 km | 20 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 82.5 against 81.6 here. Saint-Germain-de-Grantham is the closest to care, 8.6 km to Saint-Eugène’s 19 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Eugène itself is the trip to care.
- 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. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
Questions about health in Saint-Eugène
How healthy is Saint-Eugène?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Saint-Eugène from a hospital?
A clinic is 11 km from the average resident of Saint-Eugène and a pharmacy 11 km, as the crow flies.
How is Saint-Eugène’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Eugène: 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-Eugène?
For the health region that includes Saint-Eugène, women can expect 83.3 years and men 79.9 (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).