Photo: Cecil Adelaide · Public domainFew places match Saint-Eustache for health: it beats almost every Canadian town
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 60% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Eustache is well placed: 1.4 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Saint-Eustache grades A+ for health, #45 of 503 in Quebec and #53 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Eustache
Upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 8.0 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 58% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
A lighter load of illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 19% report high blood pressure and 8.1% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
A hospital close by
Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as Saint-Eustache; from its centre of population the trip is 0.9 km. Getting care ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Saint-Eustache can reach 7.9 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.0 km off. Getting care ↓
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-Eustache 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: #45 of 503 in Quebec and #53 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 58% and 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health is close to the province’s: 66% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 20% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.1%
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 29% of adults against 29% for Quebec.
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-Eustache: 1.4 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Eustache’s own, not the region’s.
Saint-Eustache is closer in than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 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: 1.0 years more here
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Saint-Eustache’s region is above the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 2.9 at 81.2 years of life; Saint-Eustache’s region does better, at 82.2. It tops the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 80.9 years. Its towns’ household income, about $81,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s correlation: 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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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 7th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Saint-Eustache’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Saint-Eustache is 2nd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 41,910 to 54,539 people, median 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sault-Saint-Louis QC A | 47,270 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 2 | Saint-Eustache QC A+ | 47,562 | 1.4 km | 60% |
| 3 | Cornwall ON B− | 54,346 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 4 | St. Thomas ON B− | 49,388 | 1.7 km | 49% |
| 40 | Lakeshore ON B− | 45,954 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Eustache
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-Eustache | 1.4 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Deux-Montagnes 3.1 km | 2.7 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Laval-Ouest 3.7 km | 2.9 km | 53% | 84.1 | A |
| Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac 5.5 km | 3.5 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Fabreville 6.1 km | 4.5 km | 53% | 84.1 | A |
| Boisbriand 6.4 km | 2.7 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Sainte-Dorothée 8.3 km | 5.3 km | 53% | 84.1 | A− |
Across a regional line, Laval-Ouest has its own figures: life expectancy 84.1, against 82.2 here. Residents of Sainte-Dorothée live further from a hospital, at 5.3 km against 1.4 km in Saint-Eustache.
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.
- 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-Eustache’s own.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
Questions about health in Saint-Eustache
How healthy is Saint-Eustache?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 13%.
How is Saint-Eustache’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Saint-Eustache’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Eustache?
For the health region that includes Saint-Eustache, women can expect 83.7 years and men 80.8 (2022/2024).
How far is Saint-Eustache from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Eustache have a clinic 1.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.0 km away, in straight lines.
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).