Photo: ChristianT · CC BY-SA 3.066% of adults around Saint-Prime call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.8 years at birth, 83.2 for women and 80.4 for men. For Saint-Prime itself the measure is access, and it lags: 14 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Saint-Prime grades A for health, #296 of 503 in Quebec and #893 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Prime
Far from a hospital
Distance is Saint-Prime’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 14 km. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Saint-Prime at 4.2 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Prime 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: #296 of 503 in Quebec and #893 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.
From Saint-Prime, a hospital is 14 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Prime’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Prime 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.
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
This region is 9th 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Saint-Prime’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.
The region lives 1.4 years longer than its deprivation predicts
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Saint-Prime’s region comes out above the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.1, the expected figure is 80.4 years, and Saint-Prime’s region does better with 81.8. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 9 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 80.6 years. Modest pay, about $69,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9%
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 30%, the province 29%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (29% against 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.
64% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Quebec (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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 72% very good or excellent to 64%; 14% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Saint-Prime is 25th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,767 to 2,849 people, median 8.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forestville QC B+ | 2,835 | 0.9 km | 61% |
| 2 | Grimshaw AB C− | 2,799 | 1.3 km | 48% |
| 3 | Downtown West End AB A+ | 2,796 | 1.3 km | 56% |
| 23 | Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part ON C− | 2,770 | 13 km | 48% |
| 24 | Cultus Lake BC B− | 2,773 | 13 km | 47% |
| 25 | Saint-Prime QC A | 2,808 | 14 km | 66% |
| 26 | Vernon River PE B− | 2,779 | 15 km | 51% |
| 27 | Sainte-Luce QC B+ | 2,808 | 16 km | 60% |
| 40 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints QC B | 2,841 | 76 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Prime
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-Prime | 14 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Mashteuiatsh 7.7 km | 7.2 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Saint-Félicien 9.8 km | 23 km | 66% | 81.8 | A− |
| Roberval 13 km | 1.7 km | 66% | 81.8 | A+ |
Around Saint-Prime the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Roberval is the closest to care, 1.7 km to Saint-Prime’s 14 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Prime shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Prime
How healthy is Saint-Prime?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Saint-Prime from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Prime have a clinic 2.5 km away on average and a pharmacy 2.7 km away, in straight lines.
How is Saint-Prime’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Prime’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Prime?
Women in Saint-Prime’s region live to 83.2 on average and men to 80.4, 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).