Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Few places match Saint-Raymond for health: it beats almost every Canadian town
In the health survey, 62% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Quebec’s 57%. For Saint-Raymond itself the measure is access: 4.3 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Saint-Raymond is A+, #29 of 503 in Quebec and #34 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Raymond
Upbeat about their health
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 10.1 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 61%. Health survey ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (18%) and diabetes (7.2%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Saint-Raymond’s region sits 1.4 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.1 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-Raymond 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: #29 of 503 in Quebec and #34 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 61% to 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Asked about their mental health, 66% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Quebec it was 64%, and 22% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
18% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.2% 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
Self-reported obesity, 30%, 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
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
The region comes 3rd 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
This is the one part of the block measured for Saint-Raymond 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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Saint-Raymond’s region comes out on the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Saint-Raymond’s region, at 2.3, should live about 83.4 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.9, near enough. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 82.9 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.
The nearest hospital is 4.3 km from the average home in Saint-Raymond
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Raymond, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care Saint-Raymond is ordinary: 5.3 km is the typical figure in Quebec, 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 0.7 km, while the average resident is 4.3 km away.
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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Saint-Raymond comes 12th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (11,663 to 12,244 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 8.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weyburn SK C− | 11,871 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 2 | Nelson BC A | 12,126 | 1.3 km | 55% |
| 3 | South Cameron ON B+ | 11,804 | 1.9 km | 52% |
| 10 | Humber Summit ON A | 12,194 | 3.2 km | 50% |
| 11 | Etobicoke West Mall ON A− | 12,218 | 4.0 km | 50% |
| 12 | Saint-Raymond QC A+ | 11,951 | 4.3 km | 62% |
| 13 | Valley Creek ON A− | 11,986 | 4.3 km | 49% |
| 14 | McKenzie Lake AB A | 11,966 | 4.4 km | 56% |
| 40 | Mont-Tremblant QC A− | 11,879 | 25 km | 60% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Raymond
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-Raymond | 4.3 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Léonard-de-Portneuf 10 km | 8.3 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Basile 15 km | 14 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Fossambault-sur-le-Lac 15 km | 16 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier 17 km | 16 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Pont-Rouge 18 km | 18 km | 62% | 82.9 | A |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Saint-Raymond’s regional figures. Pont-Rouge is the furthest from care, 18 km to Saint-Raymond’s 4.3 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Saint-Raymond’s own.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
Questions about health in Saint-Raymond
How healthy is Saint-Raymond?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
How is Saint-Raymond’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Raymond’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Raymond?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Raymond’s health region only: 84.7 years for women and 81.1 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Saint-Raymond from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Raymond is 4.2 km from a clinic and 4.4 km from a pharmacy.
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).