Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Saint-Malachie, 59% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Lives in the region last 82.8 years on average (2022/2024): 84.4 for women, 81.3 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 23 km from the average resident of Saint-Malachie, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Saint-Malachie is B+.
What stands out about health in Saint-Malachie
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Saint-Malachie’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 22 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Saint-Malachie’s region sits 1.3 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.0 years ahead (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-Malachie 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.
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-Malachie, a hospital is 23 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Malachie’s own, not the region’s.
Saint-Malachie 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.
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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 5th.
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-Malachie’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.
The region lives 0.8 years longer than its deprivation predicts
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Saint-Malachie’s region is above the line.
At 2.7 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 82.0 years, and the region Saint-Malachie belongs to reaches 82.8. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 81.4 years in the middle. On income alone, around $75,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (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 9.2% 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
On weight the region is ordinary for Quebec: 31% report obesity, the province 29%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (26% against 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 57% and 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 looks better than in the province too: 69% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 18% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Saint-Malachie
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-Malachie | 23 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Frampton 6.3 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Léon-de-Standon 11 km | 32 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Sainte-Marguerite 12 km | 9.8 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Claire 12 km | 20 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Damien-de-Buckland 14 km | 34 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Saints-Anges 14 km | 15 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Saint-Malachie’s regional figures. Sainte-Marguerite is the closest to care, 9.8 km to Saint-Malachie’s 23 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Malachie shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Malachie
How far is Saint-Malachie from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Malachie live: 1.9 km to a clinic, 8.4 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Saint-Malachie?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Malachie?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Malachie’s health region only: 84.4 years for women and 81.3 for men (2022/2024).
How is Saint-Malachie’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-Malachie’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).