56% of adults around Saint-Norbert rate their health very good or excellent
Lives in the region last 82.0 years on average (2022/2024): 83.7 for women, 80.3 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 20 km from the average resident of Saint-Norbert, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Norbert a grade of B.
What stands out about health in Saint-Norbert
A long way to hospital
Residents of Saint-Norbert live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (21 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.1, would put Saint-Norbert’s region near 80.3 years; it reaches 82.0. For its deprivation ↓
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Saint-Norbert at 4.6 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
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-Norbert grades B 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.
The nearest hospital is 20 km from the average home in Saint-Norbert
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Norbert’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Saint-Norbert 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.7 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Saint-Norbert’s, lies over the trend.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.1 on the index, the line expects 80.3 years; Saint-Norbert’s region reaches 82.0. It tops the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 80.9 years. On income alone, around $81,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
Self-reported obesity, 33%, tops Quebec (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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 8th place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
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-Norbert’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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 55% 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
On mental health the region tracks Quebec, 64% 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-Norbert
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 | 20 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Cuthbert 6.8 km | 18 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon 8.0 km | 29 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois 10 km | 14 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Gabriel 11 km | 29 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Élisabeth 12 km | 10 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Barthélemy 13 km | 17 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Saint-Norbert’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Norbert shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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-Norbert
How far is Saint-Norbert from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Norbert have a clinic 9.2 km away on average and a pharmacy 12 km away, in straight lines.
How is Saint-Norbert’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Norbert: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Saint-Norbert?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Norbert?
Women in Saint-Norbert’s region live to 83.7 on average and men to 80.3, 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).