Photo: Laceoflight Louis-Philippe Rousselle-Brosseau · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Placide scores better for health than 87% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 60% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. For Saint-Placide itself the measure is access, and it lags: 18 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Saint-Placide grades A for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Placide
Far from a hospital
Distance is Saint-Placide’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 19 km. Getting care ↓
Self-rated health runs high
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 8.0 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 58% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 19% of adults, diabetes for 8.1%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Placide 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.
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-Placide: 18 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Placide, weighted by who lives there.
Saint-Placide is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 58% to 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
Stress touches 20% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 66%, the province 64% (Quebec).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.1% diabetes
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 29% of adults against 29% for 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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 1.0 years ahead of the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Saint-Placide’s, lies over the trend.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Saint-Placide’s region beats it: 82.2 years against the 81.2 the trend gives a score of 2.9. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 80.9. A household income of about $81,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 7th 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
This is the one part of the block measured for Saint-Placide 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.
Health in the places around Saint-Placide
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-Placide | 18 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Rigaud 8.8 km | 22 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Kanesatake 9.0 km | 16 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Hudson 9.2 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-André-d'Argenteuil 12 km | 11 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Oka 12 km | 15 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Saint-Lazare 15 km | 17 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
Rigaud falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 82.5 against 82.2 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Placide alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Placide
How healthy is Saint-Placide?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 13% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Saint-Placide’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Placide’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Saint-Placide from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Placide have a clinic 9.9 km away on average and a pharmacy 8.0 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Placide?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.7 for women, 80.8 for men around Saint-Placide (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).