Photo: Vic Brincat from Keswick, Ontario, Canada · CC BY 2.0Around Brighton, 45% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 80.1, women 81.9 and men 78.2 (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Brighton’s is long: 12 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Brighton is C.
What stands out about health in Brighton
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around Brighton than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 11% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
Residents of Brighton live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (12 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Brighton’s region sits 1.4 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.6 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.6 out of 5, Brighton sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
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.
Brighton 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.
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.4% 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 runs lower than in the province, at 39% 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.
The nearest hospital is 12 km from the average home in Brighton
Straight-line distances from each part of Brighton, weighted by who lives there.
Brighton is near the provincial norm, 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick, with 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Ranked 3rd of 7 in New Brunswick: the regions span 78.9 to 81.5 years at birth.
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; Brighton’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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.0 years behind the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Brighton’s region’s dot is under the line.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.9, Brighton’s region’s 80.1 years sit under the line’s 81.1. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 81.2 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.
44% 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
On mental health the region is behind New Brunswick, 45% very good or excellent to 49%; 26% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Brighton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton | 12 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Hartland 7.0 km | 4.6 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Peel 11 km | 13 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Wakefield 15 km | 6.4 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Wilmot 19 km | 13 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Florenceville-Bristol 19 km | 19 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Brighton from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Residents of Hartland live nearer a hospital, at 4.6 km against 12 km in Brighton.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Brighton itself is the trip to care.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- 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.
Questions about health in Brighton
How healthy is Brighton?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How is Brighton’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Brighton’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Brighton from a hospital?
Residents of Brighton have a pharmacy 8.6 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Brighton?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.9 for women, 78.2 for men around Brighton (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).