Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.059% of adults around Saint-Frédéric call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 82.8, with women at 84.4 and men at 81.3. For Saint-Frédéric itself the measure is access, and it lags: 19 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Saint-Frédéric is B+.
What stands out about health in Saint-Frédéric
A long way to hospital
Residents of Saint-Frédéric live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (18 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 15 km from the average home in Saint-Frédéric, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
A long-lived region
Born around Saint-Frédéric, a child can expect 1.3 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.0 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Frédéric 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-Frédéric, a hospital is 19 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Frédéric, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Saint-Frédéric 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.
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 5th of the 18.
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-Frédéric’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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 0.8 years
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Saint-Frédéric’s region shows above the trend.
At 2.7 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 82.0 years, and the region Saint-Frédéric belongs to reaches 82.8. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, a median of 81.4. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $75,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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%
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 tracks the province: 31% of adults here, 29% across Quebec. Heavy drinking is commoner too (26% 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 57% to 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 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.
Health in the places around Saint-Frédéric
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-Frédéric | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Tring-Jonction 5.3 km | 17 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce 8.3 km | 13 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Vallée-Jonction 8.4 km | 14 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Elzéar 13 km | 6.9 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| East Broughton 13 km | 20 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saints-Anges 14 km | 15 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
Around Saint-Frédéric the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Saint-Elzéar is the closest to care, 6.9 km to Saint-Frédéric’s 19 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Frédéric alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Frédéric
How is Saint-Frédéric’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Frédéric’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Saint-Frédéric from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Frédéric live: 3.8 km to a clinic, 15 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Saint-Frédéric?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Frédéric?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.4 for women, 81.3 for men around Saint-Frédéric (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).