Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAround Saint-Prosper, 59% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Women in the region live to 84.4 and men to 81.3, 82.8 years taken together (2022/2024). What sets Saint-Prosper apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 19 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Saint-Prosper a grade of B+, #416 of 503 in Quebec and #1,290 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Prosper
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Saint-Prosper’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 ↓
Pharmacies far off
From the average home in Saint-Prosper, a pharmacy is 17 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
A long-lived region
Saint-Prosper’s region sits 1.3 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Prosper 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. Its place: #416 of 503 in Quebec and #1,290 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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Prosper: 19 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Prosper’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Saint-Prosper travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
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
The region comes 5th of 18 in Quebec, where life expectancy runs from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Saint-Prosper’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 0.8 years ahead of the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Saint-Prosper’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Saint-Prosper’s region beats it: 82.8 years against the 82.0 the trend gives a score of 2.7. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 9 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 81.4 years. A household income of about $75,000, 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.2% 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
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 31%, the province 29%. At 26%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 57% 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
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 69% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 18% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Saint-Prosper is 35th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,973 to 4,108 people, median 6.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McCauley AB B+ | 4,060 | 0.5 km | 51% |
| 2 | Swan River MB B− | 4,048 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Centremount ON B | 4,053 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 33 | Lake of Bays ON B | 4,105 | 17 km | 54% |
| 34 | Smoky Lake County AB D | 4,043 | 18 km | 48% |
| 35 | Saint-Prosper QC B+ | 4,042 | 19 km | 59% |
| 36 | Alexander MB D | 4,032 | 22 km | 50% |
| 37 | Woodlands MB D | 4,057 | 22 km | 50% |
| 40 | Mistissini QC | 4,067 | 66 km | – |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Prosper
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-Prosper | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Benjamin 9.5 km | 17 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Zacharie 14 km | 24 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-des-Pins 17 km | 6.7 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Côme--Linière 17 km | 14 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Georges 17 km | 2.8 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
| Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne 19 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
Around Saint-Prosper the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Saint-Georges live nearer a hospital, at 2.8 km against 19 km in Saint-Prosper.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Prosper itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Saint-Prosper
How is Saint-Prosper’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-Prosper’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Prosper from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.5 km from the average resident of Saint-Prosper and a pharmacy 17 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Saint-Prosper?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Prosper?
There is no figure for Saint-Prosper alone; its health region’s is 84.4 for women and 81.3 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).