Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.061% of adults around Saint-Maurice call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
People in the region live to 81.6 on average: 83.3 for women and 79.9 for men in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 11 km from the average resident of Saint-Maurice, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Maurice a grade of A−, #364 of 503 in Quebec and #1,053 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Maurice
Ahead of regions as deprived
Saint-Maurice’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.2 predicts: 81.6 years against 80.0. For its deprivation ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Saint-Maurice 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 ↓
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-Maurice 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: #364 of 503 in Quebec and #1,053 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.6 years
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Saint-Maurice’s region comes out above the trend.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Saint-Maurice’s region, at 3.2, outlives the trend’s 80.0 years with 81.6. It outlives 7 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose 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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Maurice: 11 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Maurice’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Saint-Maurice 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.
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
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.
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
This region is 11th longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Saint-Maurice’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
59% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Quebec (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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (68% against 64%), while 20% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Saint-Maurice is 28th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,731 to 3,881 people, median 4.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City Park SK A− | 3,827 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Clareview Town Centre AB B+ | 3,800 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 3 | Cardston AB B | 3,863 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 26 | Corkery ON A | 3,822 | 10 km | 56% |
| 27 | L'Islet QC A− | 3,874 | 11 km | 59% |
| 28 | Saint-Maurice QC A− | 3,804 | 11 km | 61% |
| 29 | East Hawkesbury ON C+ | 3,787 | 13 km | 49% |
| 30 | Penhold AB C | 3,812 | 14 km | 52% |
| 40 | Cartier MB C | 3,739 | 30 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Maurice
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-Maurice | 11 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel 11 km | 7.8 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Champlain 12 km | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Trois-Rivières 12 km | 3.5 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Saint-Narcisse 13 km | 20 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan 16 km | 23 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Bécancour 18 km | 9.7 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Saint-Maurice from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Residents of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan live further from a hospital, at 23 km against 11 km in Saint-Maurice.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Maurice alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Saint-Maurice
How healthy is Saint-Maurice?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
How far is Saint-Maurice from a hospital?
A clinic is 11 km from the average resident of Saint-Maurice and a pharmacy 6.8 km, as the crow flies.
How is Saint-Maurice’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-Maurice’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Maurice?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.3 for women, 79.9 for men around Saint-Maurice (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).