Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Around Bouctouche, 43% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
People in the region live to 81.5 on average: 83.5 for women and 79.5 for men in 2022/2024. Measured from where Bouctouche’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 11 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Bouctouche grades C+ for health, #15 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,159 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bouctouche
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Bouctouche the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 11 km. Getting care ↓
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.
Bouctouche 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. Its place: #15 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,159 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.
Getting to hospital from Bouctouche: 11 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Bouctouche’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Bouctouche travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in New Brunswick is 11 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. 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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Bouctouche’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.9, the expected figure is 81.3 years, and Bouctouche’s region matches it closely with 81.5. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (8 of 10, median 80.9 years). A household income of about $73,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 0.14).
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (25%) and diabetes (10%)
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, 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.
How the 7 health regions in New Brunswick compare on life expectancy
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
Top of the 7 regions in New Brunswick: the lowest figure is 78.9, 2.6 years below the highest.
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 Bouctouche’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.
42% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to New Brunswick (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 looks weaker than in the province: 47% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in New Brunswick, and 25% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Bouctouche is 21st of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,639 to 2,718 people, median 9.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanna AB B− | 2,665 | 0.5 km | 52% |
| 2 | Sundre AB C+ | 2,683 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 2,671 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 19 | La Présentation QC A | 2,696 | 8.3 km | 55% |
| 20 | Saint-Mathieu QC A | 2,642 | 8.5 km | 55% |
| 21 | Bouctouche NB C+ | 2,678 | 11 km | 43% |
| 22 | Waterville QC A | 2,643 | 11 km | 57% |
| 23 | Macamic QC B− | 2,698 | 12 km | 57% |
| 40 | Tumbler Ridge BC D | 2,663 | 75 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bouctouche
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouctouche | 11 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Wellington 3.6 km | 11 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Saint Mary 11 km | 18 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Saint-Antoine 12 km | 22 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Cocagne 14 km | 24 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Richibucto 18 km | 10 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
Same region, same survey: Bouctouche’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Cocagne live further from a hospital, at 24 km against 11 km in Bouctouche.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Bouctouche itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Bouctouche
How is Bouctouche’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Bouctouche: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Bouctouche?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How far is Bouctouche from a hospital?
Residents of Bouctouche have a pharmacy 12 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Bouctouche?
For the health region that includes Bouctouche, women can expect 83.5 years and men 79.5 (2022/2024).
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).