Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0Health in Sainte-Catherine beats 92% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 55%; Quebec as a whole is at 57%. For Sainte-Catherine itself the measure is access: 2.8 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Sainte-Catherine a grade of A, #155 of 503 in Quebec and #453 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sainte-Catherine
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 ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Sainte-Catherine, a child can expect 1.0 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.5 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 9.0 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.7 km off, Sainte-Catherine is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Sainte-Catherine 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: #155 of 503 in Quebec and #453 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.
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
At 32%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 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.
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
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Sainte-Catherine’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.
The nearest hospital is 2.8 km from the average home in Sainte-Catherine
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sainte-Catherine’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Sainte-Catherine are closer 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.
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-Catherine’s region comes out on the trend.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.7 would be expected to reach 82.1 years, and Sainte-Catherine’s region is close, at 82.5. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 7, with 81.4 years in the middle.
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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 54% 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Quebec (64% against 64%), while 23% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Sainte-Catherine is 20th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 17,303 to 18,251 people, median 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bay-Cloverhill ON A | 17,591 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | Downtown Yonge East ON A | 18,251 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 3 | Schmidtville NS B+ | 18,105 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 18 | Thornhill ON A | 17,940 | 2.6 km | 51% |
| 19 | Victoria Village ON A | 17,647 | 2.6 km | 50% |
| 20 | Sainte-Catherine QC A | 17,782 | 2.8 km | 55% |
| 21 | Central Saanich BC A+ | 18,184 | 3.0 km | 55% |
| 22 | Swift Current SK B | 18,154 | 3.1 km | 54% |
| 40 | Lake Country BC B− | 17,637 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Sainte-Catherine
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-Catherine | 2.8 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Delson 1.9 km | 2.5 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Saint-Constant 2.5 km | 4.6 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Candiac 4.1 km | 2.2 km | 55% | 82.5 | A |
| Sault-Saint-Louis 5.7 km | 1.3 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Desmarchais-Crawford 5.9 km | 0.5 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
| Ville-Émard 6.8 km | 1.0 km | 54% | 83.4 | A |
Sault-Saint-Louis falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 83.4 against 82.5 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Sainte-Catherine itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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.
Questions about health in Sainte-Catherine
How healthy is Sainte-Catherine?
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 15% of adults.
How is Sainte-Catherine’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Sainte-Catherine’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Sainte-Catherine?
Women in Sainte-Catherine’s region live to 84.2 on average and men to 80.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Sainte-Catherine from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Sainte-Catherine is 2.8 km from a clinic and 0.7 km from a pharmacy.
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).