Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0Around Saint-Paulin, 61% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.6, with women at 83.3 and men at 79.9. For Saint-Paulin itself the measure is access, and it lags: 20 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Saint-Paulin grades B+ for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Paulin
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Saint-Paulin live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (19 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
For a deprivation score of 3.2, the trend across regions gives 80.0 years of life; Saint-Paulin’s region reaches 81.6. For its deprivation ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Saint-Paulin’s neighbourhoods average 4.3 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Less chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 21% report high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Paulin 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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Paulin: 20 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Paulin, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Paulin is on the far side.
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.
The region lives 1.6 years longer than its deprivation predicts
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Saint-Paulin’s region shows above the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Saint-Paulin’s region, at 3.2, should live about 80.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.6. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 7 of them below it, a median of 80.5. The towns here bring in about $62,000 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.
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 34% of adults against 29% for Quebec. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 25% to 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.
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
This region is 11th longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Saint-Paulin 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.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 59% very good or excellent, against 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (68% against 64%), while 20% call most days 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-Paulin
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-Paulin | 20 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Élie-de-Caxton 8.7 km | 16 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Charette 9.3 km | 16 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Alexis-des-Monts 11 km | 28 km | 61% | 81.6 | B |
| Sainte-Ursule 13 km | 12 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Barnabé 15 km | 16 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Boniface 17 km | 6.7 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Saint-Paulin’s; read across for the hospital trip. Saint-Boniface is the closest to care, 6.7 km to Saint-Paulin’s 20 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Saint-Paulin’s own.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
Questions about health in Saint-Paulin
How healthy is Saint-Paulin?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Saint-Paulin from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Paulin is 1.8 km from a clinic and 1.4 km from a pharmacy.
How is Saint-Paulin’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-Paulin’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Paulin?
There is no figure for Saint-Paulin alone; its health region’s is 83.3 for women and 79.9 for men in 2022/2024.
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).