Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Sainte-Hénédine’s health region reports 59% in very good or excellent health, ahead of the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Life expectancy in the region is 82.8 years (84.4 for women, 81.3 for men, 2022/2024). What sets Sainte-Hénédine apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 11 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Sainte-Hénédine a grade of A−.
What stands out about health in Sainte-Hénédine
A long way to hospital
Residents of Sainte-Hénédine live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (13 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Sainte-Hénédine runs 1.3 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.0 more years (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-Hénédine 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.
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-Hénédine, a hospital is 11 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Sainte-Hénédine, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Sainte-Hénédine is on the far side.
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 5th 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-Hénédine 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 0.8 years
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Sainte-Hénédine’s region shows above the trend.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 2.7 on the index, the line expects 82.0 years; Sainte-Hénédine’s region reaches 82.8. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 81.4 years. Households here earn around $75,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (correlation 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.2% diabetes
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 31%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 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 beats Quebec as well: 69% very good or excellent to 64%, with 18% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Sainte-Hénédine
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-Hénédine | 11 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Marguerite 6.5 km | 9.8 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Anselme 7.4 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Sainte-Claire 8.3 km | 20 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Isidore 10 km | 13 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Scott 11 km | 5.2 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Marie 14 km | 2.8 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
Sainte-Hénédine and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Sainte-Claire live further from a hospital, at 20 km against 11 km in Sainte-Hénédine.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Sainte-Hénédine shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
Questions about health in Sainte-Hénédine
How healthy is Sainte-Hénédine?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How is Sainte-Hénédine’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Sainte-Hénédine’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Sainte-Hénédine from a hospital?
A clinic is 7.5 km from the average resident of Sainte-Hénédine and a pharmacy 9.3 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Sainte-Hénédine?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.4 for women, 81.3 for men around Sainte-Hénédine (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).