Health in Belledune · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Residents of Belledune live 30 km from the nearest hospital on average
In the health survey, 49% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than New Brunswick’s 44%. A pharmacy is nearer: 24 km on average, with 0.0 within 3 km of the typical home. The Health grade for Belledune is C.
New Brunswick: 44% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Zone 6 (Bathurst area)
Chronic conditions
20%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 24 km from the average home in Belledune, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
More chronic illness
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
Belledune’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 ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
At 80.2 years, Belledune’s region outlives the 76.5 that regions scoring 4.2 on the index typically reach. 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.
Health Grade
Belledune 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 (30 km)Better than 10% 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
Ahead of regions as deprived by 3.7 years of life
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Belledune’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 Belledune belongs to reaches 80.2. No region among the 10 scored most like it does better; they centre on 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.
Getting care
Pharmacies around Belledune: 0.0 within 3 km, the nearest 24 km away
Straight-line distances from each part of Belledune, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
30 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
24 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
24 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
41%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Belledune that is further 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (37%) and diabetes (14%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
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
Self-reported obesity, 40%, 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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 7 health 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 instability3.2
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability4.8
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Belledune’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
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
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
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.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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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 Belledune’s own.
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Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
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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.
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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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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 Belledune
How far is Belledune from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 24 km from the average resident of Belledune, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How is Belledune’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Belledune: 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 Belledune?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.7 for women, 77.8 for men around Belledune (2022/2024).
How healthy is Belledune?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 20%.
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0