Photo: Gene.arboit · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 56% of adults in Saint-Jean-de-Matha’s health region
Lives in the region last 82.0 years on average (2022/2024): 83.7 for women, 80.3 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 24 km from the average resident of Saint-Jean-de-Matha, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Saint-Jean-de-Matha is B, #472 of 503 in Quebec and #1,826 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Jean-de-Matha
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Saint-Jean-de-Matha the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 23 km. Getting care ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.1, the trend across regions gives 80.3 years of life; Saint-Jean-de-Matha’s region reaches 82.0. For its deprivation ↓
Less chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 21% report high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
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-Jean-de-Matha 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: #472 of 503 in Quebec and #1,826 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-Jean-de-Matha: 24 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Jean-de-Matha, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Saint-Jean-de-Matha 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: 1.7 years more here
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Saint-Jean-de-Matha’s region’s dot is above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.1 on the index, the line expects 80.3 years; Saint-Jean-de-Matha’s region reaches 82.0. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, none lives longer; the middle of the group is 80.9 years. Modest pay, about $81,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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 8.2% 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 runs higher than in the province, at 33% of adults against 29% for 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.
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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 8th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Saint-Jean-de-Matha’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
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
Mental health reads like the rest of Quebec: 64% against 64%, and 20% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Saint-Jean-de-Matha is 37th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,333 to 5,502 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hillview AB B+ | 5,473 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | West Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 5,386 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 3 | Stonewall MB C | 5,443 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 35 | Electoral Area L, Cariboo BC C | 5,358 | 20 km | 48% |
| 36 | New Glasgow PE B− | 5,502 | 22 km | 51% |
| 37 | Saint-Jean-de-Matha QC B | 5,415 | 24 km | 56% |
| 38 | Juan de Fuca (Part 1) BC A− | 5,439 | 24 km | 55% |
| 39 | Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay BC B | 5,390 | 28 km | 55% |
| 40 | Central Frontenac ON B− | 5,348 | 41 km | 53% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Jean-de-Matha
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-Jean-de-Matha | 24 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Béatrix 8.4 km | 21 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie 9.7 km | 34 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Damien 11 km | 34 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois 12 km | 14 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Sainte-Mélanie 13 km | 12 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare 14 km | 15 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Saint-Jean-de-Matha from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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.
- 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-Jean-de-Matha’s own.
Questions about health in Saint-Jean-de-Matha
How far is Saint-Jean-de-Matha from a hospital?
A clinic is 3.6 km from the average resident of Saint-Jean-de-Matha and a pharmacy 3.5 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Saint-Jean-de-Matha?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How is Saint-Jean-de-Matha’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Jean-de-Matha’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Jean-de-Matha?
There is no figure for Saint-Jean-de-Matha 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).