Photo: YanikB · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Sainte-Béatrix, 56% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Lives in the region last 82.0 years on average (2022/2024): 83.7 for women, 80.3 for men. Measured from where Sainte-Béatrix’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 21 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Sainte-Béatrix a grade of B.
What stands out about health in Sainte-Béatrix
A long way to hospital
Distance is Sainte-Béatrix’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 21 km. Getting care ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.1, would put Sainte-Béatrix’s region near 80.3 years; it reaches 82.0. For its deprivation ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.0 out of 5, Sainte-Béatrix sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
A lighter load of 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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Sainte-Béatrix 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 Sainte-Béatrix, a hospital is 21 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sainte-Béatrix’s own, not the region’s.
From Sainte-Béatrix 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.
The region lives 1.7 years longer than its deprivation predicts
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Sainte-Béatrix’s region is above the line.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Sainte-Béatrix’s region beats it: 82.0 years against the 80.3 the trend gives a score of 3.1. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure is 80.9 years. Judged by income, around $81,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%)
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
More adults report obesity than across Quebec: 33%, 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.
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
The region comes 8th of 18 in Quebec, where life expectancy runs from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Sainte-Béatrix’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 55% 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
Stress touches 20% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 64%, the province 64% (Quebec).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Sainte-Béatrix
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-Béatrix | 21 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez 6.6 km | 24 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare 7.7 km | 15 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Jean-de-Matha 8.4 km | 24 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Sainte-Mélanie 12 km | 12 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare 14 km | 7.8 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie 14 km | 34 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Sainte-Béatrix’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare live nearer a hospital, at 7.8 km against 21 km in Sainte-Béatrix.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Only the distances on this page belong to Sainte-Béatrix alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Sainte-Béatrix
How far is Sainte-Béatrix from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Sainte-Béatrix live: 5.2 km to a clinic, 6.3 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Sainte-Béatrix?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Sainte-Béatrix?
Women in Sainte-Béatrix’s region live to 83.7 on average and men to 80.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Sainte-Béatrix’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Sainte-Béatrix: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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).