Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0Cap-Pelé’s health region reports 43% in very good or excellent health, behind the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.5, women 83.5 and men 79.5 (2022/2024). Measured from where Cap-Pelé’s residents live, a hospital is 37 km away on average and 100% of them are over 30 km out. Health gives Cap-Pelé a grade of C, #37 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,321 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cap-Pelé
A long way to hospital
Residents of Cap-Pelé live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (38 km from its centre of population), and 100% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Cap-Pelé takes a trip of 20 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Cap-Pelé 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: #37 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,321 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.
The nearest hospital is 37 km from the average home in Cap-Pelé
Straight-line distances from each part of Cap-Pelé, weighted by who lives there.
From Cap-Pelé that is further than the 11 km of the typical town in New Brunswick, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Cap-Pelé’s region is near the line.
At 2.9 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.3 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Cap-Pelé belongs to reaches 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%)
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
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 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
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Cap-Pelé’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.
42% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across New Brunswick (47% against 49%), while 25% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Cap-Pelé is 37th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,047 to 3,139 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tisdale SK C− | 3,052 | 0.7 km | 47% |
| 2 | Princeton BC B+ | 3,050 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Leslie Park - Bruce Farm ON A+ | 3,056 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 35 | Percé QC C | 3,137 | 27 km | 56% |
| 36 | Saint-Gabriel QC B | 3,091 | 29 km | 56% |
| 37 | Cap-Pelé NB C | 3,092 | 37 km | 43% |
| 38 | Sudbury, Unorganized, North Part ON D | 3,083 | 40 km | 51% |
| 39 | Clear Hills AB D− | 3,110 | 54 km | 48% |
| 40 | Houston BC D− | 3,114 | 54 km | 42% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cap-Pelé
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cap-Pelé | 37 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est 5.0 km | 32 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
One health region covers Cap-Pelé and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Cap-Pelé shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
Questions about health in Cap-Pelé
How far is Cap-Pelé from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Cap-Pelé is 20 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Cap-Pelé?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Cap-Pelé’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Cap-Pelé’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Cap-Pelé?
Women in Cap-Pelé’s region live to 83.5 on average and men to 79.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).