Photo: Denis Lavoie · CC BY 3.0Around Sainte-Luce, 60% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.7, with women at 83.1 and men at 80.3. What sets Sainte-Luce apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 16 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Sainte-Luce grades B+ for health, #403 of 503 in Quebec and #1,191 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sainte-Luce
A long way to hospital
Distance is Sainte-Luce’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 17 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Sainte-Luce 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: #403 of 503 in Quebec and #1,191 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-Luce: 16 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sainte-Luce’s own, not the region’s.
From Sainte-Luce 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.5 years more here
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Sainte-Luce’s region 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 3.2 on the index, the line expects 80.2 years; Sainte-Luce’s region reaches 81.7. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 8 of them below it, a median of 80.9. Households here earn around $63,000, 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.
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.4% diabetes
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Quebec: 30%, 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 10th 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Sainte-Luce’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
58% 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
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 72% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 17% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Sainte-Luce is 27th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,767 to 2,849 people, median 8.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forestville QC B+ | 2,835 | 0.9 km | 61% |
| 2 | Grimshaw AB C− | 2,799 | 1.3 km | 48% |
| 3 | Downtown West End AB A+ | 2,796 | 1.3 km | 56% |
| 25 | Saint-Prime QC A | 2,808 | 14 km | 66% |
| 26 | Vernon River PE B− | 2,779 | 15 km | 51% |
| 27 | Sainte-Luce QC B+ | 2,808 | 16 km | 60% |
| 28 | Rivière-Beaudette QC A− | 2,806 | 16 km | 55% |
| 29 | Rosthern No. 403 SK D− | 2,791 | 17 km | 47% |
| 40 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints QC B | 2,841 | 76 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-Luce
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-Luce | 16 km | 60% | 81.7 | B+ |
| Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard 12 km | 8.8 km | 60% | 81.7 | A− |
| Mont-Joli 12 km | 29 km | 60% | 81.7 | B+ |
| Rimouski 18 km | 4.1 km | 60% | 81.7 | A |
| Price 18 km | 34 km | 60% | 81.7 | B |
| Saint-Gabriel-de-Rimouski 18 km | 27 km | 60% | 81.7 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Sainte-Luce’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Price is the furthest from care, 34 km to Sainte-Luce’s 16 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Sainte-Luce 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
Questions about health in Sainte-Luce
How healthy is Sainte-Luce?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Sainte-Luce from a hospital?
A clinic is 8.2 km from the average resident of Sainte-Luce and a pharmacy 2.1 km, as the crow flies.
How is Sainte-Luce’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Sainte-Luce: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Sainte-Luce?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.1 for women, 80.3 for men around Sainte-Luce (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).