Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.055% of adults around Saint-Lazare rate their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 84.2 and men to 80.8, 82.5 years taken together (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 17 km from the average resident of Saint-Lazare, further than the usual 3.7 km. Saint-Lazare grades A− for health, #369 of 503 in Quebec and #1,079 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Lazare
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Saint-Lazare’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 17 km. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Deprivation runs low
With a situational-vulnerability score of 1.5 out of 5, Saint-Lazare sits in the index’s least pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Saint-Lazare, a child can expect 1.0 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.5 (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-Lazare 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: #369 of 503 in Quebec and #1,079 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-Lazare: 17 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Lazare’s own, not the region’s.
From Saint-Lazare that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
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 6th 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-Lazare’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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Saint-Lazare’s lies near the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.7 about 82.1 years; Saint-Lazare’s region’s 82.5 is within a year of it. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 7 of them below it, 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 54% to 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 reads like the rest of Quebec: 64% against 64%, and 23% 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-Lazare is 39th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 22,162 to 23,655 people, median 1.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Church-Wellesley ON A | 22,415 | 0.2 km | 50% |
| 2 | Moss Park ON A | 22,701 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | High Park North ON A | 22,162 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 37 | Binbrook ON B− | 22,497 | 9.4 km | 53% |
| 38 | New Hamburg ON A− | 22,890 | 15 km | 53% |
| 39 | Saint-Lazare QC A− | 22,895 | 17 km | 55% |
| 40 | Embrun ON C | 23,655 | 21 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Lazare
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-Lazare | 17 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Hudson 6.3 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Clet 7.5 km | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Vaudreuil-Dorion 8.3 km | 17 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac 9.0 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Kanesatake 9.4 km | 16 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Sainte-Marthe 9.5 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Kanesatake’s life expectancy is 82.2, this region’s 82.5.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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-Lazare’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Lazare
How far is Saint-Lazare from a hospital?
A clinic is 7.5 km from the average resident of Saint-Lazare and a pharmacy 2.6 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Saint-Lazare?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Lazare?
There is no figure for Saint-Lazare alone; its health region’s is 84.2 for women and 80.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Saint-Lazare’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Saint-Lazare’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
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).