Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Saint-Modeste, 60% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.7, women 83.1 and men 80.3 (2022/2024). What sets Saint-Modeste apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 10 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Saint-Modeste grades A− for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Modeste
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Saint-Modeste’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 11 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Modeste 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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Modeste: 10 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Modeste, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Saint-Modeste 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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 1.5 years ahead of the trend
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Saint-Modeste’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Saint-Modeste’s region, at 3.2, outlives the trend’s 80.2 years with 81.7. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 8 of 10; their median is 80.9 years. A household income of about $63,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (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.
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.4% 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: 30% 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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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 10th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Saint-Modeste’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
58% 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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (72% against 64%), while 17% call most days 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-Modeste
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-Modeste | 10 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
| Saint-Antonin 7.0 km | 7.8 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
| Rivière-du-Loup 11 km | 1.8 km | 60% | 81.7 | A |
| Saint-Arsène 14 km | 13 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
| Cacouna 14 km | 11 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
| Notre-Dame-du-Portage 16 km | 7.8 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
| Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup 17 km | 27 km | 60% | 81.7 | B+ |
One health region covers Saint-Modeste and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup live further from a hospital, at 27 km against 10 km in Saint-Modeste.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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-Modeste’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Saint-Modeste
How healthy is Saint-Modeste?
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 is Saint-Modeste’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Modeste’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Saint-Modeste from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Modeste live: 5.8 km to a clinic, 8.9 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Modeste?
There is no figure for Saint-Modeste alone; its health region’s is 83.1 for women and 80.3 for men in 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).