Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.055% of adults around Saint-Polycarpe rate their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 82.5 years, 84.2 for a girl and 80.8 for a boy (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Polycarpe’s is long: 15 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Saint-Polycarpe grades A− for health, #351 of 503 in Quebec and #1,021 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Polycarpe
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Saint-Polycarpe live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (16 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Saint-Polycarpe’s region sits 1.0 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.5 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-Polycarpe 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: #351 of 503 in Quebec and #1,021 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.
The nearest hospital is 15 km from the average home in Saint-Polycarpe
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Polycarpe’s own, not the region’s.
From Saint-Polycarpe that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.9% 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, 32%, sits within a few points of 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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 6th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Saint-Polycarpe’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.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Saint-Polycarpe’s region is near the line.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.7 would be expected to reach 82.1 years, and Saint-Polycarpe’s region is close, at 82.5. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 7 of them below it, a median of 81.4.
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 54% and 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Quebec (64% against 64%), while 23% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Saint-Polycarpe comes 27th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,502 to 2,591 people, median 8.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City Commercial Core ON A | 2,581 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Elmwood AB B+ | 2,522 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 3 | Lunenburg NS C− | 2,523 | 1.0 km | 44% |
| 25 | Brooke-Alvinston ON C | 2,557 | 15 km | 49% |
| 26 | Hébertville QC A | 2,588 | 15 km | 66% |
| 27 | Saint-Polycarpe QC A− | 2,549 | 15 km | 55% |
| 28 | Cap-Chat QC C+ | 2,519 | 16 km | 56% |
| 29 | Fossambault-sur-le-Lac QC A+ | 2,505 | 16 km | 62% |
| 40 | North Frontenac ON B− | 2,515 | 47 km | 53% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Polycarpe
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-Polycarpe | 15 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Rivière-Beaudette 7.7 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Zotique 7.9 km | 9.5 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Les Coteaux 9.1 km | 7.3 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Clet 9.8 km | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Coteau-du-Lac 11 km | 6.2 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Sainte-Marthe 11 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
Saint-Polycarpe and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Coteau-du-Lac is the closest to care, 6.2 km to Saint-Polycarpe’s 15 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Polycarpe itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Saint-Polycarpe
How far is Saint-Polycarpe from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Polycarpe have a clinic 1.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 9.0 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Saint-Polycarpe?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Polycarpe?
There is no figure for Saint-Polycarpe alone; its health region’s is 84.2 for women and 80.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Saint-Polycarpe’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-Polycarpe’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
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).