Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.056% of adults around Sainte-Élisabeth rate their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 82.0 years at birth, 83.7 for women and 80.3 for men. Measured from where Sainte-Élisabeth’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 10 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Sainte-Élisabeth is B+.
What stands out about health in Sainte-Élisabeth
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Sainte-Élisabeth’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.1 predicts: 82.0 years against 80.3. For its deprivation ↓
Far from a hospital
Distance is Sainte-Élisabeth’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 10 km. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.0 out of 5, Sainte-Élisabeth 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-Élisabeth 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.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 1.7 years of life
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Sainte-Élisabeth’s region’s dot is above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.1 on the index, the line expects 80.3 years; Sainte-Élisabeth’s region reaches 82.0. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, none lives longer; the middle of the group is 80.9 years. On income alone, around $81,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (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.
From Sainte-Élisabeth, a hospital is 10 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Sainte-Élisabeth, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Sainte-Élisabeth 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
At 33%, self-reported obesity is above 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.
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 8th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Sainte-Élisabeth itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
55% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (56%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Asked about their mental health, 64% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Quebec it was 64%, and 20% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Sainte-Élisabeth
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-Élisabeth | 10 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies 7.7 km | 2.5 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois 7.9 km | 14 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes 8.3 km | 5.8 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée 10.0 km | 1.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Sainte-Mélanie 10 km | 12 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Thomas 11 km | 6.7 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
The neighbours all sit in Sainte-Élisabeth’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Saint-Charles-Borromée is the closest to care, 1.6 km to Sainte-Élisabeth’s 10 km.
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.
- 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Sainte-Élisabeth shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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.
Questions about health in Sainte-Élisabeth
How is Sainte-Élisabeth’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Sainte-Élisabeth has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Sainte-Élisabeth?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Sainte-Élisabeth from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Sainte-Élisabeth live: 6.9 km to a clinic, 8.3 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Sainte-Élisabeth?
Women in Sainte-Élisabeth’s region live to 83.7 on average and men to 80.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).