On health, Balmoral falls short of 95% of Canadian towns
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 36% very good or excellent, against 44% in New Brunswick. Measured from where Balmoral’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 16 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Balmoral is D.
What stands out about health in Balmoral
Self-rated health runs low
Even once age is allowed for, 15.4 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (34% as answered). Health survey ↓
More chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 36% of adults, diabetes for 17%. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Balmoral runs 2.5 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.7 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Deprivation alone, a score of 4.4, would put Balmoral’s region near 75.9 years; it 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.
Balmoral 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.
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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in New Brunswick: 34% to 43%
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 New Brunswick (55% against 49%), while 17% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
36% 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
Self-reported obesity, 43%, sits within a few points of New Brunswick (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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 3.1 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 Balmoral’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
At 4.4 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 75.9 years, and the region Balmoral belongs to reaches 79.0. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 8 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 77.9 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 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
Of the 7 health regions in New Brunswick, 6th place goes to this one, between a low of 78.9 and a high of 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 Balmoral’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.
Getting to hospital from Balmoral: 16 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Balmoral’s own, not the region’s.
From Balmoral that is further than the 11 km of the typical town in New Brunswick, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. Few clinics are listed in New Brunswick, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
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.
Health in the places around Balmoral
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balmoral | 16 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
| Eel River Crossing 3.5 km | 16 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
| Dalhousie 8.7 km | 12 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
| Charlo 8.8 km | 25 km | 36% | 79.0 | D− |
| Dalhousie 11 km | 23 km | 36% | 79.0 | D− |
| Campbellton 17 km | 1.0 km | 36% | 79.0 | C− |
| Pointe-à-la-Croix 18 km | 5.7 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. Residents of Campbellton live nearer a hospital, at 1.0 km against 16 km in Balmoral.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Balmoral shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
Questions about health in Balmoral
How healthy is Balmoral?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 24%.
How is Balmoral’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Balmoral’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Balmoral?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.3 for women, 75.3 for men around Balmoral (2022/2024).
How far is Balmoral from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Balmoral is 12 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
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).