Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.059% of adults around Saint-Gervais call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
A baby born in the region can expect 82.8 years, 84.4 for a girl and 81.3 for a boy (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 25 km from the average resident of Saint-Gervais, further than the usual 3.7 km. Saint-Gervais grades B+ for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Gervais
A long way to hospital
Distance is Saint-Gervais’ own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 25 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Saint-Gervais’ 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-Gervais 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-Gervais, a hospital is 25 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Gervais, weighted by who lives there.
Saint-Gervais 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.
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.
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-Gervais’ 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.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Saint-Gervais’ region is 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-Gervais belongs to reaches 82.8. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, a median of 81.4. On income alone, around $75,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.2% 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 tracks the province: 31% of adults here, 29% across 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.
57% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 69% very good or excellent to 64%; 18% describe most days as quite a bit 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-Gervais
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-Gervais | 25 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse 7.2 km | 18 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse 8.5 km | 28 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Anselme 11 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Sainte-Claire 13 km | 20 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Raphaël 14 km | 22 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Henri 14 km | 15 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
Every place around Saint-Gervais shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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-Gervais’ own.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
Questions about health in Saint-Gervais
How far is Saint-Gervais from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Gervais have a clinic 7.2 km away on average and a pharmacy 7.7 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Saint-Gervais?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How is Saint-Gervais’ 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-Gervais’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Gervais?
There is no figure for Saint-Gervais alone; its health region’s is 84.4 for women and 81.3 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).