Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Few places match Saint-Hippolyte for health: it beats 93% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 60% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Hippolyte’s is long: 12 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Saint-Hippolyte a grade of A, #142 of 503 in Quebec and #436 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Hippolyte
Self-rated health runs high
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 8.0 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 58%. Health survey ↓
A long way to hospital
Residents of Saint-Hippolyte live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (12 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 19% of adults, diabetes for 8.1%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Hippolyte 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: #142 of 503 in Quebec and #436 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 58% 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 (66% 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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.1%
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: 29% of adults here, 29% across 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.
From Saint-Hippolyte, a hospital is 12 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Hippolyte, weighted by who lives there.
Saint-Hippolyte 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.0 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Saint-Hippolyte’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 2.9, Saint-Hippolyte’s region would be expected to reach 81.2 years; it reaches 82.2. It tops the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 80.9 years. A household income of about $81,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (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.
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
This region is 7th longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Saint-Hippolyte’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.
Saint-Hippolyte is 35th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (12,304 to 12,808 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DT Hospital ON A− | 12,384 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Regent Park ON A | 12,797 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Yonge-Eglinton ON A | 12,424 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 33 | Orleans Village - Chateauneuf ON A | 12,399 | 9.9 km | 56% |
| 34 | Bromont QC A | 12,413 | 11 km | 57% |
| 35 | Saint-Hippolyte QC A | 12,550 | 12 km | 60% |
| 36 | Carignan QC A− | 12,618 | 12 km | 55% |
| 37 | Rothesay NB C− | 12,626 | 13 km | 43% |
| 40 | Lac Ste. Anne County AB D− | 12,639 | 25 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-Hippolyte
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-Hippolyte | 12 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Prévost 6.3 km | 8.0 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Sainte-Sophie 9.7 km | 7.5 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs 10 km | 11 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Piedmont 10 km | 15 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Sainte-Adèle 12 km | 16 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Saint-Jérôme 13 km | 2.1 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Saint-Hippolyte’s; read across for the hospital trip. Saint-Jérôme is the closest to care, 2.1 km to Saint-Hippolyte’s 12 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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-Hippolyte’s 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Hippolyte
How healthy is Saint-Hippolyte?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 13% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Saint-Hippolyte from a hospital?
A clinic is 7.2 km from the average resident of Saint-Hippolyte and a pharmacy 4.3 km, as the crow flies.
How is Saint-Hippolyte’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Hippolyte: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Hippolyte?
There is no figure for Saint-Hippolyte alone; its health region’s is 83.7 for women and 80.8 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).