Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0Saint-Lucien’s health region reports 61% in very good or excellent health, ahead of the typical Canadian town’s 52%
A baby born in the region can expect 81.6 years, 83.3 for a girl and 79.9 for a boy (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 14 km from the average resident of Saint-Lucien, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Lucien a grade of A−.
What stands out about health in Saint-Lucien
A long way to hospital
Residents of Saint-Lucien live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (11 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.2, would put Saint-Lucien’s region near 80.0 years; it reaches 81.6. For its deprivation ↓
Long-term conditions run low
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-Lucien 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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Lucien: 14 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Lucien, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Saint-Lucien 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 predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.6 years
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Saint-Lucien’s region shows above the trend.
At 3.2 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 80.0 years, and the region Saint-Lucien belongs to reaches 81.6. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 80.5. Judged by income, around $62,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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, 34%, tops Quebec (29%). More adults drink heavily, 25% to the province’s 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.
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
The region comes 11th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Saint-Lucien’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 59% very good or excellent, against 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 beats Quebec as well: 68% very good or excellent to 64%, with 20% facing 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-Lucien
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-Lucien | 14 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover 8.3 km | 6.2 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Drummondville 11 km | 3.4 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| L'Avenir 12 km | 18 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey 14 km | 21 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil 14 km | 17 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Sainte-Clotilde-de-Horton 16 km | 21 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
Saint-Lucien and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Drummondville live nearer a hospital, at 3.4 km against 14 km in Saint-Lucien.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Lucien shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
Questions about health in Saint-Lucien
How healthy is Saint-Lucien?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
How is Saint-Lucien’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Saint-Lucien’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Lucien from a hospital?
A clinic is 10 km from the average resident of Saint-Lucien and a pharmacy 10 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Lucien?
For the health region that includes Saint-Lucien, women can expect 83.3 years and men 79.9 (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).