Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Around Campbellton, 36% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, life runs to 79.0 years on average: women 82.3, men 75.3, in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is just 1.0 km from the average resident of Campbellton, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Campbellton a grade of C−, #48 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,414 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Campbellton
A heavier load of illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 36% report high blood pressure and 17% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Campbellton’s region sits 2.5 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.7 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Smoking runs high
The age-standardised smoking rate around Campbellton is well above the typical town’s; 14% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
At 79.0 years, Campbellton’s region outlives the 75.9 that regions scoring 4.4 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.
Campbellton 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: #48 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,414 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.
36% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 17% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
At 43%, self-reported obesity is near New Brunswick’s 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 3.1 years more here
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Campbellton’s lies above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 4.4 on the index, the line expects 75.9 years; Campbellton’s region reaches 79.0. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 8, with 77.9 years in the middle.
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
Ranked 6th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Campbellton’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.
The nearest hospital is 1.0 km from the average home in Campbellton
Straight-line distances from each part of Campbellton, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Campbellton are closer than most of the province: the typical town in New Brunswick is 11 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
34% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in New Brunswick (43%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 55% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in New Brunswick, and 17% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Campbellton comes 4th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (7,323 to 7,639 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University ON A | 7,595 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 2 | Ermineskin AB B+ | 7,483 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 3 | Currie Barracks AB A+ | 7,342 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 4 | Campbellton NB C− | 7,485 | 1.0 km | 36% |
| 5 | Hampstead QC A | 7,464 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 6 | Slave Lake AB C− | 7,334 | 1.0 km | 48% |
| 40 | Trent Lakes ON C− | 7,357 | 30 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Campbellton
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campbellton | 1.0 km | 36% | 79.0 | C− |
| Pointe-à-la-Croix 3.4 km | 5.7 km | 56% | 79.9 | B− |
| Atholville 8.7 km | 7.0 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
| Listuguj 9.3 km | 3.5 km | 56% | 79.9 | B− |
| Dalhousie 13 km | 12 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
| Balmoral 17 km | 16 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
| Eel River Crossing 18 km | 16 km | 36% | 79.0 | D |
Across a regional line, Pointe-à-la-Croix has its own figures: life expectancy 79.9, against 79.0 here. Eel River Crossing is the furthest from care, 16 km to Campbellton’s 1.0 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 Campbellton 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Campbellton
How healthy is Campbellton?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 24%.
What is the life expectancy in Campbellton?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Campbellton’s health region only: 82.3 years for women and 75.3 for men (2022/2024).
How is Campbellton’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Campbellton’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Campbellton from a hospital?
Residents of Campbellton have a pharmacy 1.1 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).