Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Saint-Paul, 56% of adults call their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 82.0, with women at 83.7 and men at 80.3. For Saint-Paul itself the measure is access: 4.2 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Saint-Paul grades A− for health, #361 of 503 in Quebec and #1,044 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Paul
Ahead of regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.1, would put Saint-Paul’s region near 80.3 years; it reaches 82.0. 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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Paul 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: #361 of 503 in Quebec and #1,044 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.7 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Saint-Paul’s, lies over the trend.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Saint-Paul’s region beats it: 82.0 years against the 80.3 the trend gives a score of 3.1. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 80.9. 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes
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
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.
From Saint-Paul, a hospital is 4.2 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Paul’s own, not the region’s.
That is close to the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Saint-Paul goes.
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
Ranked 8th of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Saint-Paul’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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 55% 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 wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 64% very good or excellent against 64% for Quebec; stress is a daily matter for 20%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Saint-Paul is 24th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 7,086 to 7,342 people, median 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Currie Barracks AB A+ | 7,342 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 2 | Coronation Park SK B+ | 7,307 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 3 | Raleigh ON B | 7,113 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 22 | Whyte Ridge MB B+ | 7,299 | 4.0 km | 52% |
| 23 | Kincora AB A+ | 7,290 | 4.0 km | 56% |
| 24 | Saint-Paul QC A− | 7,208 | 4.2 km | 56% |
| 25 | Brighton SK B+ | 7,238 | 4.5 km | 49% |
| 26 | Cavanagh AB B | 7,300 | 4.5 km | 51% |
| 40 | Colborne ON C | 7,216 | 24 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Paul
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-Paul | 4.2 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Joliette 3.0 km | 1.3 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Crabtree 4.0 km | 6.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée 6.5 km | 1.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies 6.8 km | 2.5 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Thomas 7.3 km | 6.7 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé 8.8 km | 11 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
Around Saint-Paul the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Sainte-Marie-Salomé is the furthest from care, 11 km to Saint-Paul’s 4.2 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Paul shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Saint-Paul
How is Saint-Paul’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Paul’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Saint-Paul?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Paul?
There is no figure for Saint-Paul alone; its health region’s is 83.7 for women and 80.3 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Saint-Paul from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Paul live: 4.0 km to a clinic, 1.9 km to a pharmacy.
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).