Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.061% of adults around Saint-Valère call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.6, with women at 83.3 and men at 79.9. Closer to home, a hospital is 13 km from the average resident of Saint-Valère, further than the usual 3.7 km. Saint-Valère grades A− for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Valère
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Saint-Valère the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 12 km. Getting care ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 3.2 on the deprivation index typically live 80.0 years; Saint-Valère’s region, at 81.6, does better. For its deprivation ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Valère 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.
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.
The nearest hospital is 13 km from the average home in Saint-Valère
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Valère, weighted by who lives there.
From Saint-Valère 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.
1.6 years above the line for regions this deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Saint-Valère’s region comes out above the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.2, the expected figure is 80.0 years, and Saint-Valère’s region does better with 81.6. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 80.5. A household income of about $62,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Self-reported obesity, 34%, tops Quebec (29%). More adults drink heavily, 25% to the province’s 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
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 11th 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Saint-Valère’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
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%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (68% against 64%), while 20% call most days 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-Valère
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Valère | 13 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Albert 6.9 km | 14 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Victoriaville 8.3 km | 3.9 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska 12 km | 3.0 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Warwick 14 km | 12 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Sainte-Eulalie 15 km | 27 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Sainte-Clotilde-de-Horton 15 km | 21 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
Only the hospital column is local here: Saint-Valère and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Sainte-Eulalie is the furthest from care, 27 km to Saint-Valère’s 13 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Valère itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Saint-Valère
How healthy is Saint-Valère?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
How far is Saint-Valère from a hospital?
For everyday care, Saint-Valère’s residents are 8.8 km from a pharmacy and 9.2 km from a clinic on average.
How is Saint-Valère’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Valère: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Valère?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.3 for women, 79.9 for men around Saint-Valère (2022/2024).
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).