Photo: Anonymous Unknown author · Public domain56% of adults around Sainte-Mélanie rate their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 82.0 years, 83.7 for a girl and 80.3 for a boy (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 12 km from the average resident of Sainte-Mélanie, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Sainte-Mélanie a grade of B+, #414 of 503 in Quebec and #1,281 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sainte-Mélanie
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Sainte-Mélanie the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 10 km. Getting care ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
Regions scoring 3.1 on the deprivation index typically live 80.3 years; Sainte-Mélanie’s region, at 82.0, does better. For its deprivation ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
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-Mélanie 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: #414 of 503 in Quebec and #1,281 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-Mélanie: 12 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Sainte-Mélanie, weighted by who lives there.
Sainte-Mélanie is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.7 years
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Sainte-Mélanie’s region is above the line.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Sainte-Mélanie’s region beats it: 82.0 years against the 80.3 the trend gives a score of 3.1. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, none lives longer; the middle of the group 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
Self-reported obesity, 33%, tops Quebec (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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 8th place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Sainte-Mélanie’s residents live; they carry no weight in 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%)
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
Stress touches 20% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 64%, the province 64% (Quebec).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Sainte-Mélanie is 26th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,355 to 3,477 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lynnwood AB B+ | 3,452 | 0.4 km | 51% |
| 2 | Virginia Park AB B+ | 3,431 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Havre-Saint-Pierre QC B+ | 3,389 | 1.2 km | 61% |
| 24 | Port Hawkesbury NS C− | 3,442 | 10 km | 49% |
| 25 | Wellington NB C+ | 3,458 | 11 km | 43% |
| 26 | Sainte-Mélanie QC B+ | 3,417 | 12 km | 56% |
| 27 | Portneuf QC A+ | 3,410 | 12 km | 62% |
| 28 | Thurso QC B | 3,439 | 13 km | 55% |
| 40 | Lewisporte NL D | 3,405 | 45 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Sainte-Mélanie
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-Mélanie | 12 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes 4.7 km | 5.8 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare 5.5 km | 7.8 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois 6.8 km | 14 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare 7.2 km | 15 km | 56% | 82.0 | B+ |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée 9.1 km | 1.6 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies 9.6 km | 2.5 km | 56% | 82.0 | A− |
Every place around Sainte-Mélanie shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Residents of Saint-Charles-Borromée live nearer a hospital, at 1.6 km against 12 km in Sainte-Mélanie.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Sainte-Mélanie’s own.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Sainte-Mélanie
How healthy is Sainte-Mélanie?
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 far is Sainte-Mélanie from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Sainte-Mélanie live: 6.5 km to a clinic, 2.7 km to a pharmacy.
How is Sainte-Mélanie’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Sainte-Mélanie’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Sainte-Mélanie?
There is no figure for Sainte-Mélanie alone; its health region’s is 83.7 for women and 80.3 for men in 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).