Photo: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec · Public domainFew places match Saint-Robert for health: it beats 86% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Quebec: 55% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 57%. Measured from where Saint-Robert’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 9.4 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Robert a grade of A.
What stands out about health in Saint-Robert
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Saint-Robert the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 11 km. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
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
Life expectancy in the region around Saint-Robert runs 1.0 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.5 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-Robert 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.
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.
The nearest hospital is 9.4 km from the average home in Saint-Robert
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Robert’s own, not the region’s.
Saint-Robert 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.9% 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: 32%, the province 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.
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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 6th place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Saint-Robert’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Saint-Robert’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Saint-Robert’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. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 81.4.
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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 54% 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
Mental health is close to the province’s: 64% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 23% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Saint-Robert
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-Robert | 9.4 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Yamaska 4.7 km | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel 9.6 km | 3.9 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel 9.7 km | 9.1 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Sorel-Tracy 12 km | 3.4 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel 13 km | 2.5 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola 14 km | 3.7 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola’s life expectancy is 82.0, this region’s 82.5. Residents of Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel live nearer a hospital, at 2.5 km against 9.4 km in Saint-Robert.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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-Robert’s own.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Robert
How is Saint-Robert’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Robert: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Saint-Robert?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Saint-Robert from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Robert live: 9.1 km to a clinic, 8.7 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Robert?
For the health region that includes Saint-Robert, women can expect 84.2 years and men 80.8 (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).