Photo: Grafcom . · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Saint-Jude, 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). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Jude’s is long: 16 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Saint-Jude grades A− for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Jude
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Saint-Jude the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 15 km. Getting care ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Saint-Jude, a pharmacy is 15 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
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 9.9%. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Saint-Jude’s region sits 1.0 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.5 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Jude 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-Jude, a hospital is 16 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Jude’s own, not the region’s.
Saint-Jude 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.9% diabetes
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
Self-reported obesity, 32%, sits within a few points of 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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 6th.
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-Jude’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Saint-Jude’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Saint-Jude’s region fits it, 82.5 years at 2.7 against the line’s 82.1. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 81.4.
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.
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (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-Jude
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-Jude | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Barnabé-Sud 7.5 km | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu 12 km | 22 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Hugues 12 km | 20 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| La Présentation 13 km | 8.3 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu 14 km | 24 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Simon 14 km | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
Only the hospital column is local here: Saint-Jude and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu live further from a hospital, at 24 km against 16 km in Saint-Jude.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Jude alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
Questions about health in Saint-Jude
How far is Saint-Jude from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Jude is 1.9 km from a clinic and 15 km from a pharmacy.
How is Saint-Jude’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Jude’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Saint-Jude?
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.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Jude?
There is no figure for Saint-Jude alone; its health region’s is 84.2 for women and 80.8 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).