Photo: Nicogag · CC BY-SA 3.0For health, Saint-Pascal is ahead of 91% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 60%, ahead of the 57% for Quebec. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Pascal is well placed: 1.1 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Saint-Pascal a grade of A, #185 of 503 in Quebec and #508 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Pascal
More people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 8.5 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 58%. Health survey ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
Measured from where people live, Saint-Pascal is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 0.3 km away. Getting care ↓
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-Pascal 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. Its place: #185 of 503 in Quebec and #508 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 58% and 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: 72% very good or excellent to 64%, with 17% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The nearest hospital is 1.1 km from the average home in Saint-Pascal
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Pascal, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Saint-Pascal are closer 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 1.5 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Saint-Pascal’s, lies over the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.2, the expected figure is 80.2 years, and Saint-Pascal’s region does better 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. Judged by income, around $63,000 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.
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
Habits · 2023/2024
At 30%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 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
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
This is the one part of the block measured for Saint-Pascal itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Among 40 towns its size, Saint-Pascal is 6th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,453 to 3,581 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beausejour MB C | 3,565 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 2 | Victoria Park ON A | 3,574 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 3 | Malartic QC B+ | 3,506 | 0.8 km | 57% |
| 4 | McMillan MB B+ | 3,568 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 5 | Thorncliff AB B+ | 3,564 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 6 | Saint-Pascal QC A | 3,516 | 1.1 km | 60% |
| 7 | Carman MB B | 3,547 | 1.1 km | 51% |
| 8 | Three Hills AB C+ | 3,502 | 1.2 km | 52% |
| 40 | Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap BC C− | 3,475 | 29 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Pascal
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-Pascal | 1.1 km | 60% | 81.7 | A |
| Mont-Carmel 13 km | 12 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
| Rivière-Ouelle 17 km | 8.2 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
| Saint-Pacôme 17 km | 7.0 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Saint-Pascal’s regional figures. Residents of Mont-Carmel live further from a hospital, at 12 km against 1.1 km in Saint-Pascal.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Pascal shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Saint-Pascal
How healthy is Saint-Pascal?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How is Saint-Pascal’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Pascal has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Pascal from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Pascal have a clinic 0.9 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.1 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Pascal?
Women in Saint-Pascal’s region live to 83.1 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).