Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 61% of adults around Saint-Wenceslas; the typical Canadian town: 52%
Lives in the region last 81.6 years on average (2022/2024): 83.3 for women, 79.9 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 25 km from the average resident of Saint-Wenceslas, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Saint-Wenceslas is B+.
What stands out about health in Saint-Wenceslas
Far from a hospital
Residents of Saint-Wenceslas live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (26 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
More years than its deprivation would give
Set against regions as deprived (3.2), Saint-Wenceslas’ region gains years: 81.6 where the trend says 80.0. For its deprivation ↓
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 8.2% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Saint-Wenceslas 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.
From Saint-Wenceslas, a hospital is 25 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Wenceslas, weighted by who lives there.
From Saint-Wenceslas 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 more years of life than regions as deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Saint-Wenceslas’ region shows above the trend.
At 3.2 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 80.0 years, and the region Saint-Wenceslas belongs to reaches 81.6. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (7 of 10, median 80.5 years). On income alone, around $62,000 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes
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
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 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
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Saint-Wenceslas’ 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.
59% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Quebec (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
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-Wenceslas
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-Wenceslas | 25 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Sainte-Eulalie 7.8 km | 27 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Léonard-d'Aston 7.9 km | 24 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Daveluyville 14 km | 24 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil 19 km | 17 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Bécancour 19 km | 9.7 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Saint-Wenceslas’ regional figures. Residents of Bécancour live nearer a hospital, at 9.7 km against 25 km in Saint-Wenceslas.
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.
- 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. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Wenceslas alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Wenceslas
How far is Saint-Wenceslas from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Wenceslas live: 8.2 km to a clinic, 8.1 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Saint-Wenceslas?
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 14%.
How is Saint-Wenceslas’ Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Saint-Wenceslas’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Wenceslas?
For the health region that includes Saint-Wenceslas, women can expect 83.3 years and men 79.9 (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).