Photo: Geai bleu · CC BY 3.056% of adults around Saint-Jacques rate their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 82.0 years (83.7 for women, 80.3 for men, 2022/2024). Measured from where Saint-Jacques’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 13 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Jacques a grade of B+, #420 of 503 in Quebec and #1,323 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Jacques
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Saint-Jacques live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (13 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (3.1), Saint-Jacques’ region gains years: 82.0 where the trend says 80.3. For its deprivation ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 8.2%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Jacques 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. Its place: #420 of 503 in Quebec and #1,323 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.
From Saint-Jacques, a hospital is 13 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Jacques’ 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-Jacques 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.7 years more here
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Saint-Jacques’ region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.1, Saint-Jacques’ region would be expected to reach 80.3 years; it reaches 82.0. No region among the 10 scored most like it does better; they centre on 80.9 years. The towns here bring in about $81,000 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 (8.2%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 33%, tops Quebec (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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 8th 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Saint-Jacques’ own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 55% and 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
For 20% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 64% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Quebec’s 64%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Saint-Jacques is 26th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,732 to 4,938 people, median 5.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North End East ON B+ | 4,816 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Westdale South ON B+ | 4,931 | 0.5 km | 53% |
| 3 | Central McDougall AB B+ | 4,802 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 24 | Bathurst NB C+ | 4,840 | 11 km | 49% |
| 25 | Château-Richer QC A+ | 4,732 | 12 km | 62% |
| 26 | Saint-Jacques QC B+ | 4,830 | 13 km | 56% |
| 27 | Amaranth ON B | 4,808 | 15 km | 51% |
| 28 | Sutton QC A | 4,775 | 15 km | 57% |
| 40 | Hampton NB D | 4,754 | 32 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Jacques
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-Jacques | 13 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Liguori 5.0 km | 10 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Alexis 5.8 km | 17 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé 6.9 km | 11 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Crabtree 7.4 km | 6.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Esprit 9.7 km | 23 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Julienne 10 km | 21 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
Around Saint-Jacques the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Saint-Esprit is the furthest from care, 23 km to Saint-Jacques’ 13 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Jacques alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Saint-Jacques
How healthy is Saint-Jacques?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
How far is Saint-Jacques from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Jacques have a clinic 1.8 km away on average and a pharmacy 7.6 km away, in straight lines.
How is Saint-Jacques’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Jacques’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Jacques?
There is no figure for Saint-Jacques alone; its health region’s is 83.7 for women and 80.3 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).