Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 56% of adults in Sainte-Julienne’s health region
People in the region live to 82.0 on average: 83.7 for women and 80.3 for men in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Sainte-Julienne’s is long: 21 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Sainte-Julienne is B, #465 of 503 in Quebec and #1,771 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sainte-Julienne
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Sainte-Julienne the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 21 km. Getting care ↓
More years than its deprivation would give
Sainte-Julienne’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.1 predicts: 82.0 years against 80.3. For its deprivation ↓
Harder circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Sainte-Julienne at 4.1 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. 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-Julienne 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: #465 of 503 in Quebec and #1,771 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.
The nearest hospital is 21 km from the average home in Sainte-Julienne
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sainte-Julienne’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Sainte-Julienne 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.
1.7 years above the line for regions this deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Sainte-Julienne’s, lies over the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.1, the expected figure is 80.3 years, and Sainte-Julienne’s region does better with 82.0. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure is 80.9 years. Its towns’ household income, about $81,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%)
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
More adults report obesity than across Quebec: 33%, the province 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
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 8th 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Sainte-Julienne’s own areas.
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%)
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 reads like the rest of Quebec: 64% against 64%, and 20% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Sainte-Julienne comes 40th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 12,773 to 13,230 people, median 2.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yonge-Bay Corridor ON A | 12,888 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | Regent Park ON A | 12,797 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Downtown AB B+ | 12,880 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 38 | Erin ON B | 12,924 | 15 km | 51% |
| 39 | Rawdon QC B | 13,099 | 21 km | 56% |
| 40 | Sainte-Julienne QC B | 12,990 | 21 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Sainte-Julienne
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-Julienne | 21 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Alexis 4.8 km | 17 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Esprit 8.2 km | 23 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Rawdon 9.7 km | 21 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Jacques 10 km | 13 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Calixte 12 km | 21 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Saint-Liguori 12 km | 10 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
Only the hospital column is local here: Sainte-Julienne and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Saint-Liguori live nearer a hospital, at 10 km against 21 km in Sainte-Julienne.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Sainte-Julienne alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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. 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. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
Questions about health in Sainte-Julienne
How far is Sainte-Julienne from a hospital?
A clinic is 3.2 km from the average resident of Sainte-Julienne and a pharmacy 2.9 km, as the crow flies.
How is Sainte-Julienne’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Sainte-Julienne’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Sainte-Julienne?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Sainte-Julienne?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.7 for women, 80.3 for men around Sainte-Julienne (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).