Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.061% of adults around Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska 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. What sets Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 7.8 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska a grade of A−.
What stands out about health in Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska
Living past what deprivation predicts
At 81.6 years, Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska’s region outlives the 80.0 that regions scoring 3.2 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Less chronic 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-Norbert-d'Arthabaska 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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 1.6 years ahead of the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska’s region’s dot is above the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 3.2 at 80.0 years of life; Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska’s region does better, at 81.6. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (7 of 10, median 80.5 years). Judged by income, around $62,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes
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.
From Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska, a hospital is 7.8 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska’s own, not the region’s.
From Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
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%
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
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 68% very good or excellent to 64%, with 20% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska
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-Norbert-d'Arthabaska | 7.8 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Princeville 8.4 km | 14 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Victoriaville 12 km | 3.9 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska 12 km | 3.0 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Plessisville 14 km | 22 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Plessisville 15 km | 24 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Valère 19 km | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska’s regional figures. Residents of Plessisville live further from a hospital, at 24 km against 7.8 km in Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska itself is the trip to care.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska
How healthy is Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
How is Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska from a hospital?
For everyday care, Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska’s residents are 7.4 km from a pharmacy and 8.2 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska?
Women in Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska’s region live to 83.3 on average and men to 79.9, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).