Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Sainte-Barbe, 55% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 84.2 and men to 80.8, 82.5 years taken together (2022/2024). What sets Sainte-Barbe apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 11 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Sainte-Barbe is A−.
What stands out about health in Sainte-Barbe
A long way to hospital
Distance is Sainte-Barbe’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 12 km. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Sainte-Barbe’s region sits 1.0 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.5 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Sainte-Barbe 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.
From Sainte-Barbe, a hospital is 11 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sainte-Barbe’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Sainte-Barbe 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.9%
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 32% of adults against 29% for Quebec.
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
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 6th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Sainte-Barbe’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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Sainte-Barbe’s region comes out on the trend.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Sainte-Barbe’s region is a typical case: 82.5 years at a score of 2.7, where the trend says 82.1. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 81.4 years.
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 54% and 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
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 64% very good or excellent against 64% for Quebec; stress is a daily matter for 23%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Sainte-Barbe
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Barbe | 11 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Zotique 7.6 km | 9.5 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka 8.5 km | 6.5 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Godmanchester 8.7 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Les Coteaux 10 km | 7.3 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Huntingdon 11 km | 13 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Rivière-Beaudette 11 km | 16 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Sainte-Barbe’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Rivière-Beaudette live further from a hospital, at 16 km against 11 km in Sainte-Barbe.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Sainte-Barbe itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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 Sainte-Barbe
How is Sainte-Barbe’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Sainte-Barbe has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Sainte-Barbe from a hospital?
A clinic is 9.7 km from the average resident of Sainte-Barbe and a pharmacy 8.6 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Sainte-Barbe?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Sainte-Barbe?
For the health region that includes Sainte-Barbe, women can expect 84.2 years and men 80.8 (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).