Health in Sayabec · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 60% of adults around Sayabec; the typical Canadian town: 52%
Lives in the region last 81.7 years on average (2022/2024): 83.1 for women, 80.3 for men. For Sayabec itself the measure is access, and it lags: 22 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Sayabec is B+.
Distance is Sayabec’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 22 km. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.1 out of 5, Sayabec sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Sayabec 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.
Very good or excellent health (60%)Better than 91% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 64% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.7)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (22 km)Better than 19% of Canadian towns
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 care
Getting to hospital from Sayabec: 22 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sayabec’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
22 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.9 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.1 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Sayabec is on the far side.
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.
81.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.2
more years expected at 65
10th
longest of 18 regions in Quebec
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Région de Laval84.1
Région de Montréal83.4
Région de la Capitale-Nationale82.9
Région de l'Estrie82.9
Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches82.8
Région de la Montérégie82.5
Région des Laurentides82.2
Région de Lanaudière82.0
Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean81.8
Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent81.7
Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec81.6
Région de l'Outaouais80.7
Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine79.9
Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue79.5
Région de la Côte-Nord79.4
Région du Nord-du-Québec78.1
Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James76.8
Région du Nunavik65.2
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 10th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.4
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability4.1
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Sayabec’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.5 years
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Sayabec’s lies above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Sayabec’s region sits above it: 81.7 years where a score of 3.2 predicts 80.2. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (8 of 10), with 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (9.4%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
24%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
9.4%
Obese (self-reported)
30%
Mood disorder
6.5%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
30%
Quebec
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.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 58% 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
Health very good or excellent
58%
Health fair or poor
11%
Mental health very good or excellent
72%
Mental health fair or poor
4.1%
Most days quite a bit stressful
17%
Strong sense of belonging
68%
Satisfied with life
90%
Quebec
On mental health the region is ahead of Quebec, 72% very good or excellent to 64%; 17% 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.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Sayabec alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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 Sayabec
How far is Sayabec from a hospital?
Residents of Sayabec have a clinic 0.9 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.1 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Sayabec?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Sayabec’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Sayabec has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Sayabec?
There is no figure for Sayabec alone; its health region’s is 83.1 for women and 80.3 for men in 2022/2024.
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