Photo: Antho116 · CC BY-SA 3.056% of adults around Saint-Sulpice rate their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 82.0 years at birth, 83.7 for women and 80.3 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 16 km from the average resident of Saint-Sulpice, further than the usual 3.7 km. Saint-Sulpice grades B+ for health, #443 of 503 in Quebec and #1,510 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Sulpice
A long way to hospital
Residents of Saint-Sulpice live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (16 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.1, would put Saint-Sulpice’s region near 80.3 years; it reaches 82.0. For its deprivation ↓
Less chronic 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 8.2% diabetes. 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-Sulpice 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. Its place: #443 of 503 in Quebec and #1,510 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.
The nearest hospital is 16 km from the average home in Saint-Sulpice
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Sulpice’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Saint-Sulpice travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.7 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Saint-Sulpice’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.1 on the index, the line expects 80.3 years; Saint-Sulpice’s region reaches 82.0. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median is 80.9 years. The towns here bring in about $81,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (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
Self-reported obesity, 33%, tops 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.
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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 8th 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-Sulpice’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.
55% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Asked about their mental health, 64% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Quebec it was 64%, and 20% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Saint-Sulpice is 32nd nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,639 to 3,733 people, median 5.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central ON B | 3,698 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 2 | Eau Claire AB A+ | 3,733 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 3 | West Kildonan Industrial MB B+ | 3,678 | 1.4 km | 52% |
| 30 | Cowichan Bay BC B− | 3,713 | 9.8 km | 47% |
| 31 | Piedmont QC A | 3,667 | 15 km | 60% |
| 32 | Saint-Sulpice QC B+ | 3,688 | 16 km | 56% |
| 33 | Electoral Area F, Bulkley-Nechako BC D | 3,643 | 17 km | 39% |
| 34 | Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap BC B− | 3,672 | 17 km | 57% |
| 40 | Powassan ON D | 3,657 | 30 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Sulpice
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-Sulpice | 16 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| L'Assomption 5.1 km | 14 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Verchères 6.2 km | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Lavaltrie 8.2 km | 18 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Repentigny 10.0 km | 6.2 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| L'Épiphanie 10 km | 14 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Contrecoeur 12 km | 22 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Verchères’s life expectancy is 82.5, this region’s 82.0. Residents of Repentigny live nearer a hospital, at 6.2 km against 16 km in Saint-Sulpice.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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-Sulpice 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. 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Sulpice
How is Saint-Sulpice’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Saint-Sulpice’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Sulpice from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Sulpice have a clinic 4.2 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.3 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Saint-Sulpice?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Sulpice?
Women in Saint-Sulpice’s region live to 83.7 on average and men to 80.3, 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).