Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.061% of adults around Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.6 years at birth, 83.3 for women and 79.9 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc’s is long: 8.1 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc is A−.
What stands out about health in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.2 predicts: 81.6 years against 80.0. For its deprivation ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. 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-Mathieu-du-Parc 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.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 1.6 years of life
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc’s region shows above the trend.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc’s region, at 3.2, outlives the trend’s 80.0 years with 81.6. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 7 of 10; their median is 80.5 years. Modest pay, about $62,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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 (8.2%)
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 34% of adults against 29% for Quebec. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 25% 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.
From Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc, a hospital is 8.1 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc, 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-Mathieu-du-Parc 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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 11th.
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-Mathieu-du-Parc’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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 59% 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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 68% very good or excellent to 64%; 20% 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.
Health in the places around Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc
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-Mathieu-du-Parc | 8.1 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Boniface 12 km | 6.7 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Shawinigan 13 km | 4.5 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Saint-Élie-de-Caxton 14 km | 16 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Charette 17 km | 16 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Residents of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton live further from a hospital, at 16 km against 8.1 km in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc.
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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc
How healthy is Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
How far is Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc from a hospital?
A clinic is 12 km from the average resident of Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc and a pharmacy 12 km, as the crow flies.
How is Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc’s health region only: 83.3 years for women and 79.9 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).