Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0A hospital trip from Saint-Gabriel means 29 km on average, in a straight line
In the health survey, 56% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec’s 57%. A pharmacy is nearer: 0.8 km on average, with 1.0 within 3 km of the typical home. The Health grade for Saint-Gabriel is B, #477 of 503 in Quebec and #1,878 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Gabriel
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
At 82.0 years, Saint-Gabriel’s region outlives the 80.3 that regions scoring 3.1 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Upbeat about their health
Even once age is allowed for, 4.6 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (55% as answered). Health survey ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Saint-Gabriel’s neighbourhoods average 5.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Long-term conditions run low
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-Gabriel 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. Its place: #477 of 503 in Quebec and #1,878 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.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 1.7 years of life
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Saint-Gabriel’s dot is marked, above the line.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Saint-Gabriel’s region, at 3.1, outlives the trend’s 80.3 years with 82.0. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median is 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 55% 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Quebec (64% against 64%), while 20% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 33% 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.
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 8th 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-Gabriel’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.
Pharmacies around Saint-Gabriel: 1.0 within 3 km, the nearest 0.8 km away
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Gabriel, weighted by who lives there.
From Saint-Gabriel that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Saint-Gabriel is 36th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,045 to 3,138 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tisdale SK C− | 3,052 | 0.7 km | 47% |
| 2 | Princeton BC B+ | 3,050 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Leslie Park - Bruce Farm ON A+ | 3,056 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 34 | Saint-David-de-Falardeau QC A− | 3,128 | 24 km | 66% |
| 35 | Percé QC C | 3,137 | 27 km | 56% |
| 36 | Saint-Gabriel QC B | 3,091 | 29 km | 56% |
| 37 | Cap-Pelé NB C | 3,092 | 37 km | 43% |
| 38 | Sudbury, Unorganized, North Part ON D | 3,083 | 40 km | 51% |
| 40 | Houston BC D− | 3,114 | 54 km | 42% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Gabriel
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-Gabriel | 29 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon 3.0 km | 29 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Norbert 11 km | 20 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Mandeville 12 km | 37 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Damien 13 km | 34 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Jean-de-Matha 14 km | 24 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois 15 km | 14 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
One health region covers Saint-Gabriel and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Saint-Félix-de-Valois is the closest to care, 14 km to Saint-Gabriel’s 29 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Gabriel 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.
- 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.
- 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-Gabriel
How far is Saint-Gabriel from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Gabriel have a clinic 0.5 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.8 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Saint-Gabriel?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
How is Saint-Gabriel’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Gabriel has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Gabriel?
For the health region that includes Saint-Gabriel, women can expect 83.7 years and men 80.3 (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).