Photo: Tourisme Nouveau-Brunswick · CC BY 2.0Very good or excellent health for just 36% of adults around Atholville; the typical Canadian town: 52%
Women in the region live to 82.3 and men to 75.3, 79.0 years taken together (2022/2024). For Atholville itself the measure is access, and it lags: 7.0 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Atholville a grade of D, #53 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,489 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Atholville
More chronic illness
High blood pressure (36%) and diabetes (17%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Atholville’s region sits 2.5 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.7 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Atholville is well above the typical town’s; 14% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 4.4, the trend across regions gives 75.9 years of life; Atholville’s region reaches 79.0. For its deprivation ↓
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.
Atholville 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: #53 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,489 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (36%) and diabetes (17%)
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 43% 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 3.1 years
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Atholville’s region is above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 4.4 on the index, the line expects 75.9 years; Atholville’s region reaches 79.0. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 8, with 77.9 years in the middle.
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.
Life expectancy across the 7 health regions in New Brunswick
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
Life expectancy in New Brunswick runs from 78.9 to 81.5; this region sits 6th of the 7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Atholville’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.
From Atholville, a hospital is 7.0 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Atholville’s own, not the region’s.
From Atholville that is nearer than the 11 km of the typical town in New Brunswick, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
34% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer 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
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 55% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in New Brunswick, and 17% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Atholville is 23rd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,292 to 3,400 people, median 4.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rankin Inlet NU D | 3,336 | 0.5 km | 39% |
| 2 | Miller AB B+ | 3,294 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 3 | Virden MB B− | 3,322 | 1.1 km | 51% |
| 21 | Eaux Claires AB B | 3,334 | 4.9 km | 51% |
| 22 | Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes QC A− | 3,328 | 5.8 km | 56% |
| 23 | Atholville NB D | 3,346 | 7.0 km | 36% |
| 24 | Kensington, Part 1 PE B | 3,357 | 8.7 km | 51% |
| 25 | Saint-André-d'Argenteuil QC A | 3,300 | 11 km | 60% |
| 40 | Arviat NU D− | 3,330 | 216 km | 39% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Atholville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atholville | 7.0 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
| Campbellton 8.7 km | 1.0 km | 36% | 79.0 | C− |
| Pointe-à-la-Croix 12 km | 5.7 km | 56% | 79.9 | B− |
| Listuguj 14 km | 3.5 km | 56% | 79.9 | B− |
Across a regional line, Pointe-à-la-Croix has its own figures: life expectancy 79.9, against 79.0 here. Campbellton is the closest to care, 1.0 km to Atholville’s 7.0 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- 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 Atholville’s own.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- 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.
Questions about health in Atholville
How healthy is Atholville?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 24%.
What is the life expectancy in Atholville?
Women in Atholville’s region live to 82.3 on average and men to 75.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Atholville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Atholville’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Atholville from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 6.2 km from the average resident of Atholville, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
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).