Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 59% of adults around Saint-Vallier; the typical Canadian town: 52%
Life expectancy in the region is 82.8 years (84.4 for women, 81.3 for men, 2022/2024). For Saint-Vallier itself the measure is access, and it lags: 17 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Saint-Vallier grades B+ for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Vallier
A long way to hospital
Distance is Saint-Vallier’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 17 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Saint-Vallier’s region sits 1.3 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-Vallier 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-Vallier: 17 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Vallier, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Vallier 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.
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
This region is 5th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Saint-Vallier’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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 0.8 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Saint-Vallier’s dot is marked, above the line.
At 2.7 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 82.0 years, and the region Saint-Vallier belongs to reaches 82.8. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 9 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 81.4 years. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $75,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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 9.2% 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
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 31%, the province 29%. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 26% to 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.
57% 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
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 69% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 18% find most days quite 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-Vallier
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-Vallier | 17 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans 6.1 km | 14 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse 7.7 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Berthier-sur-Mer 9.2 km | 8.5 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud 9.4 km | 12 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Raphaël 11 km | 22 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Beaumont 16 km | 13 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans’s life expectancy is 82.9, this region’s 82.8. Berthier-sur-Mer is the closest to care, 8.5 km to Saint-Vallier’s 17 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- 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-Vallier’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Vallier
How is Saint-Vallier’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Vallier’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Saint-Vallier?
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 15% of adults.
How far is Saint-Vallier from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Vallier have a clinic 6.8 km away on average and a pharmacy 10 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Vallier?
Women in Saint-Vallier’s region live to 84.4 on average and men to 81.3, 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).