Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Isidore’s health region reports 59% in very good or excellent health, ahead of the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Lives in the region last 82.8 years on average (2022/2024): 84.4 for women, 81.3 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Isidore’s is long: 13 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Saint-Isidore is A−, #383 of 503 in Quebec and #1,118 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Isidore
A long way to hospital
Distance is Saint-Isidore’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 ↓
A long-lived region
Saint-Isidore’s 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-Isidore 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: #383 of 503 in Quebec and #1,118 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-Isidore: 13 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Isidore’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Isidore is on the far side.
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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 5th of 18 in Quebec, where life expectancy runs from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
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-Isidore’s 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.
0.8 years above the line for regions this deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Saint-Isidore’s region shows above the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.7, the expected figure is 82.0 years, and Saint-Isidore’s region does better with 82.8. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 81.4 years. The towns here bring in about $75,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.2%)
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 31% of adults against 29% for Quebec. At 26%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 57% 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
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 69% very good or excellent to 64%, with 18% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Saint-Isidore is 30th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,497 to 3,606 people, median 3.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ste. Anne MB B | 3,587 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 2 | Beausejour MB C | 3,565 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Victoria Park ON A | 3,574 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 28 | WestLake-Gladstone MB B− | 3,604 | 11 km | 51% |
| 29 | Lawrencetown NS B | 3,509 | 12 km | 51% |
| 30 | Saint-Isidore QC A− | 3,550 | 13 km | 59% |
| 31 | Edwards - Carlsbad Springs ON A | 3,536 | 14 km | 56% |
| 32 | Bifrost-Riverton MB D | 3,518 | 15 km | 50% |
| 40 | Opportunity No. 17 AB D− | 3,592 | 112 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-Isidore
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-Isidore | 13 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Scott 7.7 km | 5.2 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Bernard 8.6 km | 8.3 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon 9.4 km | 16 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Sainte-Hénédine 10 km | 11 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Anselme 12 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage 14 km | 15 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
Same region, same survey: Saint-Isidore’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Scott live nearer a hospital, at 5.2 km against 13 km in Saint-Isidore.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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-Isidore’s own.
Questions about health in Saint-Isidore
How healthy is Saint-Isidore?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How is Saint-Isidore’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Isidore: 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-Isidore from a hospital?
For everyday care, Saint-Isidore’s residents are 7.9 km from a pharmacy and 2.8 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Isidore?
There is no figure for Saint-Isidore 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).