Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.055% of adults around Saint-Michel rate their health very good or excellent
Lives in the region last 82.5 years on average (2022/2024): 84.2 for women, 80.8 for men. Measured from where Saint-Michel’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 18 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Michel a grade of A−, #375 of 503 in Quebec and #1,089 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Michel
Far from a hospital
Distance is Saint-Michel’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 18 km. 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 9.9% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Saint-Michel’s region sits 1.0 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.5 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Michel 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: #375 of 503 in Quebec and #1,089 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.
The nearest hospital is 18 km from the average home in Saint-Michel
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Michel’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Saint-Michel 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.9%
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: 32% report obesity, the province 29%.
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 6th of the 18.
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-Michel’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.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Saint-Michel’s region shows close to the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.7, the expected figure is 82.1 years, and Saint-Michel’s region matches it closely with 82.5. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 81.4 years.
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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 54% 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 tracks Quebec, 64% very good or excellent to 64%; 23% 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Saint-Michel comes 37th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,621 to 3,723 people, median 4.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eaglemere MB B+ | 3,631 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 2 | Central ON B | 3,698 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 3 | West Kildonan Industrial MB B+ | 3,678 | 1.4 km | 52% |
| 35 | Electoral Area F, Bulkley-Nechako BC D | 3,643 | 17 km | 39% |
| 36 | Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap BC B− | 3,672 | 17 km | 57% |
| 37 | Saint-Michel QC A− | 3,672 | 18 km | 55% |
| 38 | Bright NB C− | 3,648 | 23 km | 45% |
| 39 | Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez QC B | 3,639 | 24 km | 56% |
| 40 | Powassan ON D | 3,657 | 30 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Michel
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-Michel | 18 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Rémi 4.3 km | 15 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Édouard 5.1 km | 18 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington 8.4 km | 27 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Mathieu 9.5 km | 8.5 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Isidore 9.7 km | 8.3 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Urbain-Premier 12 km | 15 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
Only the hospital column is local here: Saint-Michel and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Saint-Isidore is the closest to care, 8.3 km to Saint-Michel’s 18 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Michel shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Saint-Michel
How far is Saint-Michel from a hospital?
A clinic is 4.4 km from the average resident of Saint-Michel and a pharmacy 3.9 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Saint-Michel?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Saint-Michel’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-Michel’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Michel?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Michel’s health region only: 84.2 years for women and 80.8 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).