Health in Saint-Fulgence · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
66% of adults around Saint-Fulgence call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Life expectancy in the region is 81.8 years (83.2 for women, 80.4 for men, 2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 12 km from the average resident of Saint-Fulgence, further than the usual 3.7 km. Saint-Fulgence grades A for health.
For 0% of homes in Saint-Fulgence the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 9.5 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Saint-Fulgence 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.
Very good or excellent health (66%)Better than almost every Canadian town
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 67% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 89% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.8)Better than 72% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (12 km)Better than 50% of Canadian towns
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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Saint-Fulgence: 12 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Fulgence, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
12 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
5.5 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
11 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Saint-Fulgence that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
1.4 years above the line for regions this deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Saint-Fulgence’s region comes out above the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Saint-Fulgence’s region, at 3.1, should live about 80.4 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.8. It outlives 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 80.6 years. Households here earn around $69,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (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.
Conditions and habits
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
21%
Arthritis
26%
Diabetes
9%
Obese (self-reported)
30%
Mood disorder
8.1%
Anxiety disorder
10%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
11%
Smoke every day
7.9%
Heavy drinking
29%
Flu shot in the past year
37%
Quebec
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 30%, the province 29%. More adults drink heavily, 29% 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.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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.
81.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.6
more years expected at 65
9th
longest of 18 regions in Quebec
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Région de Laval84.1
Région de Montréal83.4
Région de la Capitale-Nationale82.9
Région de l'Estrie82.9
Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches82.8
Région de la Montérégie82.5
Région des Laurentides82.2
Région de Lanaudière82.0
Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean81.8
Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent81.7
Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec81.6
Région de l'Outaouais80.7
Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine79.9
Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue79.5
Région de la Côte-Nord79.4
Région du Nord-du-Québec78.1
Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James76.8
Région du Nunavik65.2
The region comes 9th 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
Residential instability2.9
Economic dependency4.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.4
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Saint-Fulgence’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
64% 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
Health very good or excellent
64%
Health fair or poor
9.4%
Mental health very good or excellent
72%
Mental health fair or poor
5.2%
Most days quite a bit stressful
14%
Strong sense of belonging
69%
Satisfied with life
92%
Quebec
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (72% against 64%), while 14% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Saint-Fulgence
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Saint-Fulgence’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Saguenay live nearer a hospital, at 3.6 km against 12 km in Saint-Fulgence.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
•
Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips 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.
•
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. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
•
Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Fulgence shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
•
What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
Questions about health in Saint-Fulgence
How healthy is Saint-Fulgence?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Saint-Fulgence’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-Fulgence’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Fulgence from a hospital?
A clinic is 5.5 km from the average resident of Saint-Fulgence and a pharmacy 11 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Fulgence?
Women in Saint-Fulgence’s region live to 83.2 on average and men to 80.4, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
Photo: Dany Caron · CC BY-SA 3.0