Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.059% of adults around Sainte-Croix call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 82.8, women 84.4 and men 81.3 (2022/2024). For Sainte-Croix itself the measure is access, and it lags: 24 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Sainte-Croix grades B+ for health, #438 of 503 in Quebec and #1,470 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sainte-Croix
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Sainte-Croix’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 25 km. Getting care ↓
A long-lived region
Sainte-Croix’s region sits 1.3 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
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-Croix 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. Its place: #438 of 503 in Quebec and #1,470 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.
Getting to hospital from Sainte-Croix: 24 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Sainte-Croix, weighted by who lives there.
From Sainte-Croix 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 regions in Quebec
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Quebec, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 5th 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Sainte-Croix’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 0.8 years ahead of the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Sainte-Croix’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 2.7 at 82.0 years of life; Sainte-Croix’s region does better, at 82.8. It outlives 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 81.4 years. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $75,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.2%
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
Self-reported obesity, 31%, sits within a few points of Quebec (29%). Heavy drinking is commoner too (26% against 22%).
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 57% 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 health looks better than in the province too: 69% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 18% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Sainte-Croix is 36th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,567 to 2,657 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 7.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosetown SK B+ | 2,600 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 2 | City Commercial Core ON A | 2,581 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 3 | Berwick NS C− | 2,631 | 0.9 km | 44% |
| 34 | Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce QC B+ | 2,575 | 20 km | 59% |
| 35 | Bonfield ON D | 2,597 | 23 km | 47% |
| 36 | Sainte-Croix QC B+ | 2,612 | 24 km | 59% |
| 37 | Division No. 7, Subdivision E NL D− | 2,632 | 27 km | 44% |
| 38 | Chase BC C− | 2,591 | 32 km | 48% |
| 40 | High Prairie AB D− | 2,607 | 41 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Sainte-Croix
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-Croix | 24 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Donnacona 6.6 km | 24 km | 62% | 82.9 | A |
| Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière 8.6 km | 18 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Cap-Santé 8.9 km | 20 km | 62% | 82.9 | A |
| Laurier-Station 12 km | 32 km | 59% | 82.8 | B |
| Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly 14 km | 25 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Neuville 14 km | 23 km | 62% | 82.9 | A |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Donnacona’s life expectancy is 82.9, this region’s 82.8.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Sainte-Croix itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
Questions about health in Sainte-Croix
How far is Sainte-Croix from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Sainte-Croix is 1.6 km from a clinic and 1.6 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Sainte-Croix?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How is Sainte-Croix’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Sainte-Croix’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Sainte-Croix?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Sainte-Croix’s health region only: 84.4 years for women and 81.3 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).