Photo: ...some guy · CC BY 2.0Alnwick scores below 98% of Canadian towns for health
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 47%, ahead of the 44% for New Brunswick. For Alnwick itself the measure is access, and it lags: 26 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Alnwick is D−, #2,577 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Alnwick
A region that smokes more
Around Alnwick, 19% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to hospital
Residents of Alnwick live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (29 km from its centre of population), and 17% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Alnwick runs 2.6 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.8 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 29% of adults, diabetes for 17%. 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.
Alnwick grades D− 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. Its place: #2,577 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
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.
29% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 17% diabetes
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
On weight the region is ordinary for New Brunswick: 44% report obesity, the province 42%.
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. Statistics Canada flags heavy drinking “use with caution”.
Getting to hospital from Alnwick: 26 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Alnwick’s own, not the region’s.
Alnwick is further out than the provincial norm of 11 km in New Brunswick, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. The clinic list is thin in New Brunswick: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
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.
How the 7 health regions in New Brunswick compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in New Brunswick, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This is the shortest-lived of the 7 regions in New Brunswick, 2.6 years behind the first at 81.5.
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 Alnwick’s 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 would predict shorter lives: 1.3 years more here
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Alnwick’s, lies over the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.9, the expected figure is 77.6 years, and Alnwick’s region does better with 78.9. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (7 of 10, median 78.3 years).
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.
46% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
On mental health the region tracks New Brunswick, 47% very good or excellent to 49%; 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Alnwick is 38th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,710 to 3,824 people, median 5.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clareview Town Centre AB B+ | 3,800 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 2 | Meadowgreen SK A− | 3,782 | 1.0 km | 49% |
| 3 | Leila-McPhillips Triangle MB B+ | 3,824 | 1.2 km | 52% |
| 36 | Saint-Tite QC B+ | 3,759 | 23 km | 61% |
| 37 | Lake Cowichan BC C+ | 3,757 | 24 km | 47% |
| 38 | Alnwick NB D− | 3,767 | 26 km | 47% |
| 39 | Salisbury NB C | 3,806 | 29 km | 43% |
| 40 | Cartier MB C | 3,739 | 30 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Alnwick
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alnwick | 26 km | 47% | 78.9 | D− |
| Esgenoôpetitj 14 2.6 km | 31 km | 47% | 78.9 | D− |
| Neguac 5.0 km | 25 km | 47% | 78.9 | D− |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Alnwick’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Alnwick 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.
Questions about health in Alnwick
How far is Alnwick from a hospital?
Residents of Alnwick have a pharmacy 27 km away on average, in a straight line.
How is Alnwick’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Alnwick: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Alnwick?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.0 for women, 75.7 for men around Alnwick (2022/2024).
How healthy is Alnwick?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 21%.
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).