Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Health in Sainte-Pétronille beats almost every Canadian town
Across the region, 62% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Quebec as a whole manages 57%. For Sainte-Pétronille itself the measure is access, and it lags: 5.8 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Sainte-Pétronille is A+.
What stands out about health in Sainte-Pétronille
Upbeat about their health
Even once age is allowed for, 10.1 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (61% as answered). Health survey ↓
Long-term conditions run low
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 18% report high blood pressure and 7.2% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Easier circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Sainte-Pétronille’s neighbourhoods average 1.0 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Sainte-Pétronille, a child can expect 1.4 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.1 (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-Pétronille 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.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 61% very good or excellent, against 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: 66% against 64%, and 22% 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.
High blood pressure for 18% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.2%
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
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.
Life expectancy across the 18 health 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
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 3rd 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Sainte-Pétronille’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Sainte-Pétronille’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Sainte-Pétronille belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.3 predicts: 82.9 years, the trend 83.4. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 82.9 years. On income alone, around $75,000 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.
The nearest hospital is 5.8 km from the average home in Sainte-Pétronille
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sainte-Pétronille’s own, not the region’s.
Sainte-Pétronille is near the provincial norm, 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec, with 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.
Health in the places around Sainte-Pétronille
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-Pétronille | 5.8 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Chutes-Montmorency 4.7 km | 5.7 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Vieux-Bourg 5.4 km | 3.2 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans 6.4 km | 11 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Boischatel 6.5 km | 8.7 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans 7.3 km | 13 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
| Vieux-Moulin 7.4 km | 1.2 km | 62% | 82.9 | A+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Sainte-Pétronille’s regional figures. Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans is the furthest from care, 13 km to Sainte-Pétronille’s 5.8 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Sainte-Pétronille itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Sainte-Pétronille
How healthy is Sainte-Pétronille?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
What is the life expectancy in Sainte-Pétronille?
Women in Sainte-Pétronille’s region live to 84.7 on average and men to 81.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Sainte-Pétronille from a hospital?
Residents of Sainte-Pétronille have a clinic 4.0 km away on average and a pharmacy 3.0 km away, in straight lines.
How is Sainte-Pétronille’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-Pétronille’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
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).