Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 61% of adults around Sainte-Ursule; the typical Canadian town: 52%
Lives in the region last 81.6 years on average (2022/2024): 83.3 for women, 79.9 for men. What sets Sainte-Ursule apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 12 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Sainte-Ursule a grade of A−.
What stands out about health in Sainte-Ursule
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Sainte-Ursule’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 12 km. Getting care ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
For a deprivation score of 3.2, the trend across regions gives 80.0 years of life; Sainte-Ursule’s region reaches 81.6. For its deprivation ↓
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Sainte-Ursule at 4.4 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Long-term conditions run low
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 ↓
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-Ursule 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-Ursule, a hospital is 12 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sainte-Ursule’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-Ursule 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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.6 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Sainte-Ursule’s dot is marked, above the line.
At 3.2 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 80.0 years, and the region Sainte-Ursule belongs to reaches 81.6. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 80.5. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $62,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 34% of adults against 29% for Quebec. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 25% to 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.
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
This region is 11th longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale 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-Ursule’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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Quebec: 59% to 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
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 68% very good or excellent to 64%; 20% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Sainte-Ursule
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-Ursule | 12 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Maskinongé 9.6 km | 8.0 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Louiseville 11 km | 1.4 km | 61% | 81.6 | A |
| Saint-Paulin 13 km | 20 km | 61% | 81.6 | B+ |
| Saint-Barthélemy 13 km | 17 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Yamachiche 18 km | 8.7 km | 61% | 81.6 | A− |
| Saint-Alexis-des-Monts 19 km | 28 km | 61% | 81.6 | B |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Saint-Barthélemy’s life expectancy is 82.0, this region’s 81.6. Residents of Saint-Alexis-des-Monts live further from a hospital, at 28 km against 12 km in Sainte-Ursule.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Sainte-Ursule itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
Questions about health in Sainte-Ursule
How healthy is Sainte-Ursule?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
How is Sainte-Ursule’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Sainte-Ursule: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Sainte-Ursule from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Sainte-Ursule live: 8.9 km to a clinic, 13 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Sainte-Ursule?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.3 for women, 79.9 for men around Sainte-Ursule (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).