Health in Allardville · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
The nearest hospital is 27 km from the average home in Allardville
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 49%, ahead of the 44% for New Brunswick. For everyday care, the nearest pharmacy is 23 km away on average (0.0 within 3 km). Health gives Allardville a grade of C.
From the average home in Allardville, a pharmacy is 23 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run high
High blood pressure (37%) and diabetes (14%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Born around Allardville, a child can expect 1.3 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.4 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Allardville’s region beats what its deprivation score of 4.2 predicts: 80.2 years against 76.5. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Allardville grades C 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 (49%)Better than 30% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 15% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 85% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.2)Better than 46% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (27 km)Better than 13% 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.
For its deprivation
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 3.7 years more here
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Allardville’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
At 4.2 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 76.5 years, and the region Allardville belongs to reaches 80.2. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 77.9.
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.
Getting care
Pharmacies around Allardville: 0.0 within 3 km, the nearest 23 km away
Straight-line distances from each part of Allardville, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
27 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
61 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
23 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 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 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Allardville is on the far side. The clinic list is thin in New Brunswick: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
37% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 14% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
37%
Arthritis
27%
Diabetes
14%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
11%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
22%
New Brunswick
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 40% of adults against 42% for New Brunswick.
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.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 regions in New Brunswick
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in New Brunswick, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
80.2
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.4
more years expected at 65
2nd
longest of 7 regions in New Brunswick
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Zone 1 (Moncton area)81.5
Zone 6 (Bathurst area)80.2
Zone 3 (Fredericton area)80.1
Zone 2 (Saint John area)79.3
Zone 4 (Edmundston area)79.1
Zone 5 (Campbellton area)79.0
Zone 7 (Miramichi area)78.9
This region is 2nd longest-lived of 7 in New Brunswick, on a scale from 78.9 to 81.5 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.6
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.2
Situational vulnerability5.0
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Allardville’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.
Health survey
46% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in New Brunswick (43%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
46%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
59%
Mental health fair or poor
11%
Most days quite a bit stressful
18%
Strong sense of belonging
70%
Satisfied with life
87%
New Brunswick
Mental health beats New Brunswick as well: 59% very good or excellent to 49%, with 18% facing stressful days.
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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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Allardville shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
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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.
Questions about health in Allardville
How far is Allardville from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Allardville is 23 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Allardville?
There is no figure for Allardville alone; its health region’s is 82.7 for women and 77.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Allardville?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
How is Allardville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Allardville’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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