Health in Saint-Ulric · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
60% of adults around Saint-Ulric call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Across the region, life runs to 81.7 years on average: women 83.1, men 80.3, in 2022/2024. Measured from where Saint-Ulric’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 14 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Saint-Ulric is A−.
For 0% of homes in Saint-Ulric the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 14 km. Getting care ↓
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.
Health Grade
Saint-Ulric 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.
Very good or excellent health (60%)Better than 91% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 64% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.7)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (14 km)Better than 44% of Canadian towns
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 care
Getting to hospital from Saint-Ulric: 14 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Ulric, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
14 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
13 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
14 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Saint-Ulric is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
The region lives 1.5 years longer than its deprivation predicts
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Saint-Ulric’s, lies over the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Saint-Ulric’s region, at 3.2, should live about 80.2 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.7. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 8, with 80.9 years in the middle. On income alone, around $63,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (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.
Conditions and habits
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.4% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
24%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
9.4%
Obese (self-reported)
30%
Mood disorder
6.5%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
30%
Quebec
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 30% of adults against 29% for Quebec.
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.
The wider area
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Quebec, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
81.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.2
more years expected at 65
10th
longest of 18 regions in Quebec
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Région de Laval84.1
Région de Montréal83.4
Région de la Capitale-Nationale82.9
Région de l'Estrie82.9
Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches82.8
Région de la Montérégie82.5
Région des Laurentides82.2
Région de Lanaudière82.0
Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean81.8
Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent81.7
Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec81.6
Région de l'Outaouais80.7
Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine79.9
Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue79.5
Région de la Côte-Nord79.4
Région du Nord-du-Québec78.1
Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James76.8
Région du Nunavik65.2
This region is 10th longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.7
Economic dependency4.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.3
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Saint-Ulric’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
58% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (56%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
58%
Health fair or poor
11%
Mental health very good or excellent
72%
Mental health fair or poor
4.1%
Most days quite a bit stressful
17%
Strong sense of belonging
68%
Satisfied with life
90%
Quebec
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (72% against 64%), while 17% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Saint-Ulric
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Every place around Saint-Ulric shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Matane is the closest to care, 2.3 km to Saint-Ulric’s 14 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
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Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
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Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Ulric itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Saint-Ulric
How healthy is Saint-Ulric?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How is Saint-Ulric’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Ulric’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Saint-Ulric from a hospital?
For everyday care, Saint-Ulric’s residents are 14 km from a pharmacy and 13 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Ulric?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Ulric’s health region only: 83.1 years for women and 80.3 for men (2022/2024).
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