Photo: Hubert Figuière from Montréal, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Saint-Rémi, 55% of adults call 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). Closer to home, a hospital is 15 km from the average resident of Saint-Rémi, further than the usual 3.7 km. Saint-Rémi grades A− for health, #350 of 503 in Quebec and #1,013 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Rémi
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Saint-Rémi the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 15 km. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run low
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 21% report high blood pressure and 9.9% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Saint-Rémi, a child can expect 1.0 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.5 (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-Rémi 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: #350 of 503 in Quebec and #1,013 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-Rémi, a hospital is 15 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Rémi’s own, not the region’s.
From Saint-Rémi 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.9%
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
At 32%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 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
The region comes 6th 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-Rémi’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Saint-Rémi’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Saint-Rémi’s region, at 2.7, should live about 82.1 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.5, near enough. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 81.4 years.
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.
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (56%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Neither ahead nor behind Quebec on mental health (64% to 64%), the region has 23% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Saint-Rémi is 37th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 9,325 to 9,787 people, median 3.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North London ON A− | 9,584 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 2 | Daniel McIntyre MB B+ | 9,584 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Rustic ON A | 9,543 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 35 | Plympton-Wyoming ON C+ | 9,548 | 11 km | 49% |
| 36 | Thamesford ON C+ | 9,755 | 11 km | 49% |
| 37 | Saint-Rémi QC A− | 9,557 | 15 km | 55% |
| 38 | Richmond ON A− | 9,526 | 15 km | 56% |
| 39 | Otterburn Park QC A− | 9,460 | 20 km | 55% |
| 40 | Castlegar BC B | 9,465 | 21 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Rémi
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-Rémi | 15 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Michel 4.3 km | 18 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Isidore 5.3 km | 8.3 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Urbain-Premier 9.1 km | 15 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Édouard 9.4 km | 18 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Mathieu 10 km | 8.5 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Mercier 11 km | 3.7 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
Saint-Rémi and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Mercier live nearer a hospital, at 3.7 km against 15 km in Saint-Rémi.
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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Rémi 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.
- 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.
- 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. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Saint-Rémi
How far is Saint-Rémi from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Rémi have a clinic 1.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.2 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Saint-Rémi?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Rémi?
For the health region that includes Saint-Rémi, women can expect 84.2 years and men 80.8 (2022/2024).
How is Saint-Rémi’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Rémi has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance 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).