Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Saint-Martin, 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. For Saint-Martin itself the measure is access, and it lags: 17 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Saint-Martin is B+, #408 of 503 in Quebec and #1,221 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Martin
Far from a hospital
Residents of Saint-Martin live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (17 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Saint-Martin takes a trip of 17 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.0 out of 5, Saint-Martin sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Saint-Martin, a child can expect 1.3 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.0 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Martin 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: #408 of 503 in Quebec and #1,221 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-Martin: 17 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Martin, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Martin is on the far side.
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.
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 5th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Saint-Martin itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Saint-Martin’s region is above the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Saint-Martin’s region, at 2.7, should live about 82.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.8. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 81.4 years. Households here earn around $75,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (correlation 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.2%)
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
At 31%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 29%. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 26% to 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.
57% 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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 69% very good or excellent to 64%; 18% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Saint-Martin is 30th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,650 to 2,726 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 11 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanna AB B− | 2,665 | 0.5 km | 52% |
| 2 | Sundre AB C+ | 2,683 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 2,671 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 28 | Saint-Alexandre QC A− | 2,685 | 16 km | 55% |
| 29 | Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton QC A | 2,650 | 17 km | 57% |
| 30 | Saint-Martin QC B+ | 2,687 | 17 km | 59% |
| 31 | Bonaventure QC C | 2,719 | 17 km | 56% |
| 32 | Electoral Area F, Sunshine Coast BC A+ | 2,691 | 20 km | 59% |
| 40 | Waskaganish QC | 2,726 | 132 km | – |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Martin
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-Martin | 17 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-René 8.2 km | 11 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley 12 km | 20 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce 12 km | 29 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Saint-Benoît-Labre 15 km | 9.4 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Côme--Linière 15 km | 14 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Georges 17 km | 2.8 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Saint-Martin’s; read across for the hospital trip. Saint-Georges is the closest to care, 2.8 km to Saint-Martin’s 17 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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-Martin’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Martin
How is Saint-Martin’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Martin’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Saint-Martin?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
How far is Saint-Martin from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Martin is 1.9 km from a clinic and 17 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Martin?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Martin’s health region only: 84.4 years for women and 81.3 for men (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).