Health in Saint-Pacôme · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Saint-Pacôme’s health region reports 60% in very good or excellent health, ahead of the typical Canadian town’s 52%
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.7 years at birth, 83.1 for women and 80.3 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Pacôme’s is long: 7.0 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Saint-Pacôme is A−.
Quebec: 57% · Measured across the Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
15%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Quebec: 14%
Smokers
12%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Quebec: 12%
Life expectancy
81.7
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.1 · men 80.3
Nearest hospital
7.0 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Saint-Pacôme 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.
Very good or excellent health (60%)Better than 91% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 64% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.7)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (7.0 km)Better than 67% of Canadian towns
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.
For its deprivation
1.5 years above the line for regions this deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Saint-Pacôme’s region’s dot is above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Saint-Pacôme’s region, at 3.2, outlives the trend’s 80.2 years with 81.7. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 80.9 years. The towns here bring in about $63,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (9.4%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
24%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
9.4%
Obese (self-reported)
30%
Mood disorder
6.5%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
30%
Quebec
Obesity tracks the province: 30% of adults here, 29% across Quebec.
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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Saint-Pacôme: 7.0 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Pacôme, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
7.0 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
7.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
8.3 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Pacôme is on the far side.
Saint-Pacôme and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of La Pocatière live nearer a hospital, at 0.9 km against 7.0 km in Saint-Pacôme.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
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What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Pacôme shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
Questions about health in Saint-Pacôme
How healthy is Saint-Pacôme?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How is Saint-Pacôme’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-Pacôme’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Pacôme from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Pacôme live: 7.1 km to a clinic, 8.3 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Pacôme?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Pacôme’s health region only: 83.1 years for women and 80.3 for men (2022/2024).
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