Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAround Saint-Simon, 55% of adults call their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 82.5 years at birth, 84.2 for women and 80.8 for men. What sets Saint-Simon apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 13 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Saint-Simon grades A− for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Simon
Far from a hospital
Distance is Saint-Simon’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 12 km. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Saint-Simon, 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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Simon 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 13 km from the average home in Saint-Simon
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Simon’s own, not the region’s.
Saint-Simon 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.9%
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
Self-reported obesity, 32%, 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.
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 6th of the 18.
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-Simon’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Saint-Simon’s region is near the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.7, the expected figure is 82.1 years, and Saint-Simon’s region matches it closely with 82.5. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 7 of them below it, 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%
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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Quebec (64% against 64%), while 23% call most days 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-Simon
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-Simon | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Barnabé-Sud 7.4 km | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Hugues 8.8 km | 20 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Liboire 9.0 km | 15 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot 9.6 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Hyacinthe 12 km | 2.1 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Upton 14 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
Around Saint-Simon the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Saint-Hyacinthe is the closest to care, 2.1 km to Saint-Simon’s 13 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Simon alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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-Simon
How is Saint-Simon’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-Simon’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Simon from a hospital?
For everyday care, Saint-Simon’s residents are 9.5 km from a pharmacy and 11 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Saint-Simon?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Simon?
There is no figure for Saint-Simon alone; its health region’s is 84.2 for women and 80.8 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).