Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Pamphile sits a long way from hospital care: 47 km for the average resident
Across the region, 59% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Quebec (57%). For everyday care, the nearest pharmacy is 43 km away on average (0.0 within 3 km). Saint-Pamphile grades B for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Pamphile
More people feeling well
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 7.2 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 57% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Saint-Pamphile takes a trip of 43 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.3 out of 5, Saint-Pamphile sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
A long-lived region
Saint-Pamphile’s region sits 1.3 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
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-Pamphile 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 57% 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
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 69% very good or excellent to 64%, with 18% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Everyday care in Saint-Pamphile: the nearest pharmacy 43 km away, 0.0 within 3 km
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Pamphile’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Saint-Pamphile 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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, 5th 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-Pamphile’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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 0.8 years ahead of the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Saint-Pamphile’s region shows above the trend.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Saint-Pamphile’s region beats it: 82.8 years against the 82.0 the trend gives a score of 2.7. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 81.4 years in the middle. Modest pay, about $75,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.2%)
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 31% of adults against 29% for Quebec. At 26%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
Health in the places around Saint-Pamphile
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-Pamphile | 47 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Sainte-Perpétue 15 km | 34 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
Same region, same survey: Saint-Pamphile’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Pamphile alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Saint-Pamphile
How far is Saint-Pamphile from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Pamphile have a clinic 2.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 43 km away, in straight lines.
How is Saint-Pamphile’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Saint-Pamphile’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Saint-Pamphile?
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-Pamphile?
Women in Saint-Pamphile’s region live to 84.4 on average and men to 81.3, 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).