Photo: Anna Frodesiak · Public domainFew places match Sainte-Adèle for health: it beats 89% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 60%, ahead of the 57% for Quebec. Measured from where Sainte-Adèle’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 16 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Sainte-Adèle grades A for health, #244 of 503 in Quebec and #682 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sainte-Adèle
A long way to hospital
Distance is Sainte-Adèle’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 16 km. Getting care ↓
Self-rated health runs high
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 8.0 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 58% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (8.1%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. 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.
Sainte-Adèle 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. Its place: #244 of 503 in Quebec and #682 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
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 16 km from the average home in Sainte-Adèle
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sainte-Adèle’s own, not the region’s.
Sainte-Adèle is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 58% and 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 is no outlier: 66% say very good or excellent (Quebec: 64%) and 20% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.1% 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: 29%, the province 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.0 years
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Sainte-Adèle’s region’s dot is above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 2.9 on the index, the line expects 81.2 years; Sainte-Adèle’s region reaches 82.2. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median is 80.9 years. Modest pay, about $81,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 7th 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Sainte-Adèle’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Among 40 towns its size, Sainte-Adèle is 38th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 14,943 to 15,508 people, median 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lairet QC A+ | 15,251 | 1.2 km | 62% |
| 2 | Lawrence Park South ON A | 15,018 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 3 | Edgemont AB A+ | 15,359 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 36 | Dorchester ON B | 15,475 | 13 km | 52% |
| 37 | Pincourt QC A− | 15,220 | 14 km | 55% |
| 38 | Sainte-Adèle QC A | 15,216 | 16 km | 60% |
| 39 | Limoges ON C | 15,122 | 27 km | 49% |
| 40 | Whistler BC A | 15,090 | 48 km | 59% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Sainte-Adèle
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Adèle | 16 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Piedmont 6.4 km | 15 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Val-Morin 6.7 km | 9.8 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Saint-Sauveur 7.8 km | 17 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Val-David 9.3 km | 6.7 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Morin-Heights 9.5 km | 17 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson 11 km | 17 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
Same region, same survey: Sainte-Adèle’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Val-David is the closest to care, 6.7 km to Sainte-Adèle’s 16 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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 Sainte-Adèle’s own.
Questions about health in Sainte-Adèle
How healthy is Sainte-Adèle?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 13%.
How far is Sainte-Adèle from a hospital?
A clinic is 6.6 km from the average resident of Sainte-Adèle and a pharmacy 2.4 km, as the crow flies.
How is Sainte-Adèle’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Sainte-Adèle’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Sainte-Adèle?
There is no figure for Sainte-Adèle alone; its health region’s is 83.7 for women and 80.8 for men in 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).