Photo: Miguel Tremblay · Public domainAround Saint-Tite, 61% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.6 years at birth, 83.3 for women and 79.9 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Tite’s is long: 23 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Saint-Tite grades B+ for health, #437 of 503 in Quebec and #1,457 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Tite
A long way to hospital
Residents of Saint-Tite live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (23 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.2, the trend across regions gives 80.0 years of life; Saint-Tite’s region reaches 81.6. For its deprivation ↓
Less chronic 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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Tite 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: #437 of 503 in Quebec and #1,457 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 23 km from the average home in Saint-Tite
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Tite’s own, not the region’s.
Saint-Tite 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.
1.6 more years of life than regions as deprived
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Saint-Tite’s region is above the line.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Saint-Tite’s region, at 3.2, outlives the trend’s 80.0 years with 81.6. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 7 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 80.5 years. Modest pay, about $62,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
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
More adults report obesity than across Quebec: 34%, the province 29%. At 25%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
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
Ranked 11th of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
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-Tite’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.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 59% very good or excellent, against 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.
Saint-Tite is 36th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,700 to 3,813 people, median 5.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clareview Town Centre AB B+ | 3,800 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 2 | Meadowgreen SK A− | 3,782 | 1.0 km | 49% |
| 3 | Eau Claire AB A+ | 3,733 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 34 | Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George BC D | 3,764 | 20 km | 39% |
| 35 | Sainte-Claire QC B+ | 3,724 | 20 km | 59% |
| 36 | Saint-Tite QC B+ | 3,759 | 23 km | 61% |
| 37 | Lake Cowichan BC C+ | 3,757 | 24 km | 47% |
| 38 | Alnwick NB D− | 3,767 | 26 km | 47% |
| 40 | Cartier MB C | 3,739 | 30 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Tite
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-Tite | 23 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Hérouxville 8.7 km | 17 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Sainte-Thècle 11 km | 33 km | 61% | 81.6 | B |
| Saint-Stanislas 19 km | 27 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Narcisse 19 km | 20 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
Around Saint-Tite the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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.
- 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-Tite’s own.
Questions about health in Saint-Tite
How far is Saint-Tite from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.2 km from the average resident of Saint-Tite and a pharmacy 11 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Saint-Tite?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Saint-Tite’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Tite’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Tite?
Women in Saint-Tite’s 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).