Photo: Challwa · CC BY-SA 4.061% of adults around Saint-Germain-de-Grantham call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.6 years at birth, 83.3 for women and 79.9 for men. What sets Saint-Germain-de-Grantham apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 8.6 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Saint-Germain-de-Grantham a grade of A−, #348 of 503 in Quebec and #1,006 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
For a deprivation score of 3.2, the trend across regions gives 80.0 years of life; Saint-Germain-de-Grantham’s region reaches 81.6. For its deprivation ↓
Long-term conditions run low
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 21% report high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Germain-de-Grantham 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: #348 of 503 in Quebec and #1,006 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.6 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Saint-Germain-de-Grantham’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Use the deprivation index alone and Saint-Germain-de-Grantham’s region, at 3.2, should live about 80.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.6. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 7 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 80.5 years. Modest pay, about $62,000 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 8.2%
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
At 34%, self-reported obesity is above Quebec’s 29%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% 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.
The nearest hospital is 8.6 km from the average home in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, weighted by who lives there.
Saint-Germain-de-Grantham is further out 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.
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 11th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Saint-Germain-de-Grantham itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 59% very good or excellent, against 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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (68% 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Saint-Germain-de-Grantham comes 27th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,974 to 5,138 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Altona MB B | 4,989 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | Meinzinger Park-Lakeside ON A | 5,007 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 3 | Central Business District SK A− | 4,987 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 25 | Electoral Area C, North Okanagan BC B | 5,029 | 7.5 km | 52% |
| 26 | Annapolis County, Subdivision B NS C− | 5,086 | 8.1 km | 44% |
| 27 | Saint-Germain-de-Grantham QC A− | 5,054 | 8.6 km | 61% |
| 28 | Cumberland BC B+ | 4,974 | 8.6 km | 54% |
| 29 | Starlight Village NB C | 5,108 | 9.6 km | 45% |
| 40 | Big Lakes County AB D− | 5,106 | 53 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Germain-de-Grantham
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-Germain-de-Grantham | 8.6 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Drummondville 7.9 km | 3.4 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Saint-Eugène 9.2 km | 19 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Wickham 11 km | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham 11 km | 9.9 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover 14 km | 6.2 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Bonaventure 15 km | 17 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Saint-Eugène live further from a hospital, at 19 km against 8.6 km in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- 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. 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-Germain-de-Grantham’s own.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham
How healthy is Saint-Germain-de-Grantham?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Saint-Germain-de-Grantham’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Germain-de-Grantham: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Germain-de-Grantham from a hospital?
A clinic is 8.2 km from the average resident of Saint-Germain-de-Grantham and a pharmacy 1.4 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham?
There is no figure for Saint-Germain-de-Grantham alone; its health region’s is 83.3 for women and 79.9 for men in 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).