Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 59% of adults around Saint-Raphaël; the typical Canadian town: 52%
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 82.8, with women at 84.4 and men at 81.3. Measured from where Saint-Raphaël’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 22 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Raphaël a grade of B+.
What stands out about health in Saint-Raphaël
Far from a hospital
Distance is Saint-Raphaël’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 21 km. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Saint-Raphaël at 4.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Longer lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Saint-Raphaël runs 1.3 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.0 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Raphaël 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.
From Saint-Raphaël, a hospital is 22 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Raphaël, weighted by who lives there.
Saint-Raphaël 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.
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
Ranked 5th of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Saint-Raphaël 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.
0.8 years above the line for regions this deprived
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Saint-Raphaël’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
At 2.7 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 82.0 years, and the region Saint-Raphaël belongs to reaches 82.8. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (9 of 10, median 81.4 years). Modest pay, about $75,000 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 9.2%
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
At 31%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 29%. More adults drink heavily, 26% to the province’s 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 57% 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
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 69% very good or excellent to 64%, with 18% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Saint-Raphaël
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-Raphaël | 22 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud 8.6 km | 12 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Vallier 11 km | 17 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Armagh 14 km | 26 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Gervais 14 km | 25 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse 15 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse 15 km | 18 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Saint-Raphaël’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Raphaël shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Raphaël
How is Saint-Raphaël’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Raphaël has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Raphaël from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Raphaël is 2.1 km from a clinic and 2.1 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Saint-Raphaël?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Raphaël?
Women in Saint-Raphaël’s region live to 84.4 on average and men to 81.3, 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).