Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAround Saint-Hugues, 55% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 82.5, women 84.2 and men 80.8 (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 20 km from the average resident of Saint-Hugues, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Hugues a grade of A−.
What stands out about health in Saint-Hugues
Far from a hospital
Residents of Saint-Hugues live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (19 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies far off
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 17 km from the average home in Saint-Hugues, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run low
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 9.9%. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Saint-Hugues’ region sits 1.0 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.5 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-Hugues 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.
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-Hugues, a hospital is 20 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Hugues’ own, not the region’s.
Saint-Hugues 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.9%
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 32% report obesity, the province 29%.
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
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 6th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Saint-Hugues’ residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Saint-Hugues’ region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.7 would be expected to reach 82.1 years, and Saint-Hugues’ region is close, at 82.5. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 81.4 years.
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 54% and 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
The region’s 64% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Quebec’s 64%, with 23% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Saint-Hugues
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Hugues | 20 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Simon 8.8 km | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Barnabé-Sud 10 km | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot 12 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Jude 12 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Guillaume 13 km | 22 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Eugène 14 km | 19 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Saint-Guillaume’s life expectancy is 81.6, this region’s 82.5.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Hugues itself is the trip to care.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Saint-Hugues
How far is Saint-Hugues from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Hugues is 9.9 km from a clinic and 17 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Saint-Hugues?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Hugues?
There is no figure for Saint-Hugues alone; its health region’s is 84.2 for women and 80.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Saint-Hugues’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Hugues’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).