Photo: Miguel Tremblay · CC0The nearest hospital is 64 km from the average home in Saint-Zénon
Across the region, 56% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Quebec (57%). A pharmacy is nearer: 16 km on average, with 0.0 within 3 km of the typical home. Saint-Zénon grades B for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Zénon
Ahead of regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (3.1), Saint-Zénon’s region gains years: 82.0 where the trend says 80.3. For its deprivation ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Saint-Zénon takes a trip of 16 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
More people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.6 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 55%. Health survey ↓
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 ↓
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-Zénon 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.
1.7 more years of life than regions as deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Saint-Zénon’s dot is marked, above the line.
At 3.1 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 80.3 years, and the region Saint-Zénon belongs to reaches 82.0. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 80.9. Its towns’ household income, about $81,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s 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.
Everyday care in Saint-Zénon: the nearest pharmacy 16 km away, 0.0 within 3 km
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Zénon’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Saint-Zénon travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 55% to 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
Neither ahead nor behind Quebec on mental health (64% to 64%), the region has 20% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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
Self-reported obesity, 33%, tops Quebec (29%).
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
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 8th 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Saint-Zénon’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health in the places around Saint-Zénon
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-Zénon | 64 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Michel-des-Saints 13 km | 76 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
Saint-Zénon and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Zénon shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Zénon
How far is Saint-Zénon from a hospital?
For everyday care, Saint-Zénon’s residents are 16 km from a pharmacy and 16 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Saint-Zénon?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How is Saint-Zénon’s 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-Zénon’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Zénon?
For the health region that includes Saint-Zénon, women can expect 83.7 years and men 80.3 (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).