Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Saint-Stanislas, 61% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Women in the region live to 83.3 and men to 79.9, 81.6 years taken together (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 27 km from the average resident of Saint-Stanislas, further than the usual 3.7 km. Saint-Stanislas grades B+ for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Stanislas
A long way to hospital
Distance is Saint-Stanislas’ own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 27 km. Getting care ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
At 81.6 years, Saint-Stanislas’ region outlives the 80.0 that regions scoring 3.2 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 8.2%. Conditions and habits ↓
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-Stanislas 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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Stanislas: 27 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Stanislas’ own, not the region’s.
From Saint-Stanislas 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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.6 years
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Saint-Stanislas’ lies above the line.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.2, Saint-Stanislas’ region would be expected to reach 80.0 years; it reaches 81.6. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 7 of 10; their median is 80.5 years. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $62,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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 8.2%
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 34% of adults against 29% for Quebec. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 25% to 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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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 11th of the 18.
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-Stanislas’ 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.
59% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Quebec (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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 68% very good or excellent to 64%; 20% describe most days as quite a bit 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-Stanislas
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-Stanislas | 27 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan 6.3 km | 23 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Narcisse 6.7 km | 20 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade 16 km | 16 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Batiscan 17 km | 18 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Champlain 18 km | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Tite 19 km | 23 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Saint-Stanislas’ regional figures. Champlain is the closest to care, 13 km to Saint-Stanislas’ 27 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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-Stanislas’ own.
Questions about health in Saint-Stanislas
How far is Saint-Stanislas from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Stanislas live: 1.1 km to a clinic, 1.1 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Saint-Stanislas?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
How is Saint-Stanislas’ 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-Stanislas’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Stanislas?
Women in Saint-Stanislas’ region live to 83.3 on average and men to 79.9, 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).