Photo: Khayman · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Saint-Honoré, 66% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, life runs to 81.8 years on average: women 83.2, men 80.4, in 2022/2024. For Saint-Honoré itself the measure is access, and it lags: 11 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Saint-Honoré is A, #241 of 503 in Quebec and #669 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Honoré
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Saint-Honoré’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 12 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Honoré 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: #241 of 503 in Quebec and #669 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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Honoré: 11 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Honoré, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Saint-Honoré travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.4 years more here
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Saint-Honoré’s dot is marked, above the line.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Saint-Honoré’s region, at 3.1, outlives the trend’s 80.4 years with 81.8. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 80.6 years. A household income of about $69,000, 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.
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
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 30% of adults against 29% for Quebec. 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.
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, 9th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Saint-Honoré’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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 64% 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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 72% very good or excellent to 64%; 14% 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Saint-Honoré comes 30th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,812 to 7,161 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raleigh ON B | 7,113 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 2 | Perth ON B | 6,972 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Devon AB B+ | 6,965 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 28 | Fairwinds BC B− | 7,125 | 11 km | 47% |
| 29 | Les Cèdres QC A− | 7,145 | 11 km | 55% |
| 30 | Saint-Honoré QC A | 6,984 | 11 km | 66% |
| 31 | Rhineland MB B− | 6,819 | 11 km | 51% |
| 32 | Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh ON B− | 7,052 | 12 km | 45% |
| 40 | Thunder Bay, Unorganized ON D | 6,831 | 37 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Honoré
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-Honoré | 11 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Saint-David-de-Falardeau 9.7 km | 24 km | 66% | 81.8 | A− |
| Saguenay 14 km | 3.6 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Saint-Fulgence 14 km | 12 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Saint-Ambroise 18 km | 18 km | 66% | 81.8 | A− |
Only the hospital column is local here: Saint-Honoré and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Saint-David-de-Falardeau is the furthest from care, 24 km to Saint-Honoré’s 11 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Honoré itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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-Honoré
How healthy is Saint-Honoré?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Saint-Honoré’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Honoré has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Honoré from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Honoré live: 7.9 km to a clinic, 3.0 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Honoré?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.2 for women, 80.4 for men around Saint-Honoré (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).