Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Flavien sits a long way from hospital care: 33 km for the average resident
Across the region, 59% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Quebec (57%). Pharmacies are closer at hand, 4.2 km away on average and 0.0 of them within 3 km of a typical home. Saint-Flavien grades B for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Flavien
Upbeat about their health
Even once age is allowed for, 7.2 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (57% as answered). Health survey ↓
Longer lives in the region
Saint-Flavien’s region sits 1.3 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
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-Flavien 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 57% 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 looks better than in the province too: 69% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 18% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 5th place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Saint-Flavien’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
0.8 more years of life than regions as deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Saint-Flavien’s dot is marked, above the line.
At 2.7 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 82.0 years, and the region Saint-Flavien belongs to reaches 82.8. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 81.4 years. Modest pay, about $75,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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 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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 31% of adults against 29% for Quebec. More adults drink heavily, 26% to the province’s 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.
Everyday care in Saint-Flavien: the nearest pharmacy 4.2 km away, 0.0 within 3 km
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Flavien, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Saint-Flavien 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.
Health in the places around Saint-Flavien
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-Flavien | 33 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Laurier-Station 4.7 km | 32 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Saint-Janvier-de-Joly 8.2 km | 28 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Agapit 12 km | 23 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Apollinaire 13 km | 22 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Lyster 15 km | 35 km | 61% | 81.6 | B |
| Sainte-Croix 16 km | 24 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
Lyster falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 81.6 against 82.8 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Flavien alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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 health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Flavien
How far is Saint-Flavien from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Flavien live: 4.1 km to a clinic, 4.2 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Saint-Flavien?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Flavien?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Flavien’s health region only: 84.4 years for women and 81.3 for men (2022/2024).
How is Saint-Flavien’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Flavien has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance 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).