Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner around Bas-Caraquet (20% against 17% for the typical Canadian town)
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 49% very good or excellent, against 44% in New Brunswick. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Bas-Caraquet’s is long: 7.3 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Bas-Caraquet is B−.
What stands out about health in Bas-Caraquet
A region where lives run shorter
Bas-Caraquet’s region sits 1.3 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.4 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Bas-Caraquet’s neighbourhoods average 4.6 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
Regions scoring 4.2 on the deprivation index typically live 76.5 years; Bas-Caraquet’s region, at 80.2, does better. 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.
Bas-Caraquet 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.
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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 3.7 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Bas-Caraquet’s dot is marked, above the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 4.2 at 76.5 years of life; Bas-Caraquet’s region does better, at 80.2. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, none lives longer; the middle of the group is 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.
How the 7 health regions in New Brunswick compare on life expectancy
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 2nd of 7 in New Brunswick, where life expectancy runs from 78.9 to 81.5 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Bas-Caraquet’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
37% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 14% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
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.
From Bas-Caraquet, a hospital is 7.3 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Bas-Caraquet, weighted by who lives there.
Bas-Caraquet is closer in than the provincial norm of 11 km in New Brunswick, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in New Brunswick: 46% to 43%
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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across New Brunswick (59% against 49%), while 18% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Bas-Caraquet
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Bas-Caraquet’s regional figures. Inkerman is the furthest from care, 15 km to Bas-Caraquet’s 7.3 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Bas-Caraquet itself is the trip to care.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
Questions about health in Bas-Caraquet
How is Bas-Caraquet’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Bas-Caraquet: 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 Bas-Caraquet?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.7 for women, 77.8 for men around Bas-Caraquet (2022/2024).
How healthy is Bas-Caraquet?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 20%.
How far is Bas-Caraquet from a hospital?
Residents of Bas-Caraquet have a pharmacy 7.3 km away on average, in a straight line.
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).