Photo: JP3G · CC BY-SA 3.0Chronic conditions run high around Bertrand: 20% on average, against 17% for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 49% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; New Brunswick as a whole manages 44%. What sets Bertrand apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 12 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Bertrand a grade of C+.
What stands out about health in Bertrand
A long way to hospital
Residents of Bertrand live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (13 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Bertrand runs 1.3 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.4 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.6 out of 5, Bertrand sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
At 80.2 years, Bertrand’s region outlives the 76.5 that regions scoring 4.2 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Bertrand 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.
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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 3.7 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Bertrand’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 4.2, Bertrand’s region would be expected to reach 76.5 years; it reaches 80.2. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure 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.
The nearest hospital is 12 km from the average home in Bertrand
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Bertrand’s own, not the region’s.
Against 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Bertrand sits near the middle. 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.
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
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Bertrand’s own areas.
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
About as many adults report obesity as across New Brunswick: 40%, 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.
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
Mental health beats New Brunswick as well: 59% very good or excellent to 49%, with 18% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Bertrand
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bertrand | 12 km | 49% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Paquetville 8.1 km | 21 km | 49% | 80.2 | C |
| Caraquet 12 km | 2.9 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| New Bandon 16 km | 20 km | 49% | 80.2 | C |
| Inkerman 19 km | 15 km | 49% | 80.2 | C+ |
The neighbours all sit in Bertrand’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Caraquet is the closest to care, 2.9 km to Bertrand’s 12 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Bertrand itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Bertrand
How far is Bertrand from a hospital?
Residents of Bertrand have a pharmacy 8.1 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Bertrand?
There is no figure for Bertrand alone; its health region’s is 82.7 for women and 77.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Bertrand?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
How is Bertrand’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Bertrand has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
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).