Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval is ahead of 95% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 62%, ahead of the 57% for Quebec. Measured from where Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 17 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval grades A+ for health, #79 of 503 in Quebec and #247 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
Upbeat about their health
Even once age is allowed for, 10.1 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (61% as answered). Health survey ↓
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 17 km. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 18% of adults, diabetes for 7.2%. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval, a child can expect 1.4 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.1 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval 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: #79 of 503 in Quebec and #247 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.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 61% very good or excellent, against 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 wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 66% very good or excellent against 64% for Quebec; stress is a daily matter for 22%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The nearest hospital is 17 km from the average home in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (18%) and diabetes (7.2%)
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 30% 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.
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 3rd 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval’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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval’s dot is marked, close to the line.
At 2.3 on the index, regions tend to reach 83.4 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval belongs to reaches 82.9. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 82.9. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $75,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval comes 35th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 8,932 to 9,250 people, median 4.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corktown ON B+ | 8,952 | 0.3 km | 53% |
| 2 | North Central SK B+ | 9,124 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 3 | Booth MB B+ | 9,016 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 33 | Beaver Bank NS B | 9,157 | 9.0 km | 51% |
| 34 | Queenswood Heights ON A | 8,998 | 11 km | 56% |
| 35 | Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval QC A+ | 9,084 | 17 km | 62% |
| 36 | Camrose County AB C | 8,951 | 17 km | 52% |
| 37 | La Salle MB C+ | 9,215 | 18 km | 51% |
| 40 | Kimberley BC B− | 9,037 | 24 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
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-Brigitte-de-Laval | 17 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Lac-Beauport 10 km | 12 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux 11 km | 6.6 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Château-Richer 11 km | 12 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Boischatel 11 km | 8.7 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| L'Ange-Gardien 12 km | 13 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury 12 km | 18 km | 62% | 82.9 | A |
The neighbours all sit in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux live nearer a hospital, at 6.6 km against 17 km in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- 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. 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
How healthy is Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
How is Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval’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-Brigitte-de-Laval’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval is 12 km from a clinic and 3.4 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval’s health region only: 84.7 years for women and 81.1 for men (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).