Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.055% of adults around Saint-Théodore-d'Acton rate their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 82.5, with women at 84.2 and men at 80.8. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Théodore-d'Acton’s is long: 22 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Saint-Théodore-d'Acton grades B+ for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Théodore-d'Acton
A long way to hospital
Residents of Saint-Théodore-d'Acton live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (21 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. 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 ↓
Longer lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Saint-Théodore-d'Acton 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-Théodore-d'Acton 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-Théodore-d'Acton: 22 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Théodore-d'Acton’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Théodore-d'Acton is on the far side.
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
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.
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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 6th.
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-Théodore-d'Acton’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
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Saint-Théodore-d'Acton’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
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-Théodore-d'Acton’s region matches it closely with 82.5. It outlives 7 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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.
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
The region’s 64% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Quebec’s 64%, with 23% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Saint-Théodore-d'Acton
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-Théodore-d'Acton | 22 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Acton Vale 6.7 km | 26 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Wickham 7.7 km | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Upton 11 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Saint-Eugène 13 km | 19 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot 14 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Roxton Falls 15 km | 24 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
Wickham falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 81.6 against 82.5 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Théodore-d'Acton itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Théodore-d'Acton
How far is Saint-Théodore-d'Acton from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Théodore-d'Acton is 4.9 km from a clinic and 5.1 km from a pharmacy.
How is Saint-Théodore-d'Acton’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Théodore-d'Acton has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Saint-Théodore-d'Acton?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Théodore-d'Acton?
Women in Saint-Théodore-d'Acton’s region live to 84.2 on average and men to 80.8, 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).