Photo: Nicogag · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Saints-Anges, 59% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Lives in the region last 82.8 years on average (2022/2024): 84.4 for women, 81.3 for men. What sets Saints-Anges apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 15 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Saints-Anges is A−.
What stands out about health in Saints-Anges
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Saints-Anges the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 16 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Saints-Anges’ region sits 1.3 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.0 years ahead (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.
Saints-Anges 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.
Getting to hospital from Saints-Anges: 15 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saints-Anges’ 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, Saints-Anges 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.
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, 5th 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Saints-Anges’ residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 0.8 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Saints-Anges’ region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Saints-Anges’ region sits above it: 82.8 years where a score of 2.7 predicts 82.0. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 9 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 81.4 years. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $75,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.2%
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: 31%, the province 29%. More adults drink heavily, 26% to the province’s 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.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 57% to 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Quebec (69% against 64%), while 18% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Saints-Anges
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saints-Anges | 15 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Vallée-Jonction 5.8 km | 14 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Frampton 8.3 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce 9.6 km | 13 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Frédéric 14 km | 19 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Sainte-Marguerite 14 km | 9.8 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Marie 14 km | 2.8 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Saints-Anges from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Residents of Sainte-Marie live nearer a hospital, at 2.8 km against 15 km in Saints-Anges.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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 Saints-Anges’ own.
Questions about health in Saints-Anges
How healthy is Saints-Anges?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How far is Saints-Anges from a hospital?
Residents of Saints-Anges have a clinic 6.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 7.6 km away, in straight lines.
How is Saints-Anges’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saints-Anges’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Saints-Anges?
For the health region that includes Saints-Anges, women can expect 84.4 years and men 81.3 (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).