Photo: Skaarup.HA · CC BY-SA 4.0On health, Chipman falls short of 89% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 45% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to New Brunswick’s 44%. For Chipman itself, the measure is access: 58 km to the nearest hospital on average, with 100% of homes beyond 30 km. The Health grade for Chipman is D.
What stands out about health in Chipman
A long way to hospital
Distance is Chipman’s own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 58 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Chipman than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 11% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Self-rated health runs low
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 7.0 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 44% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Chipman’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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Chipman grades D 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.
The nearest hospital is 58 km from the average home in Chipman
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Chipman’s own, not the region’s.
Chipman is further out than the provincial norm of 11 km in New Brunswick, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.4% 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
Self-reported obesity, 39%, trails New Brunswick (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.
Self-rated health much as in New Brunswick: 44% to 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 trails New Brunswick: 45% very good or excellent to 49%, with 26% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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
This region is 3rd 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Chipman’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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.0 years short of the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Chipman’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.9, Chipman’s region’s 80.1 years sit under the line’s 81.1. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 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.
Health in the places around Chipman
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chipman | 58 km | 45% | 80.1 | D |
| Minto 18 km | 41 km | 45% | 80.1 | D |
Only the hospital column is local here: Chipman and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Chipman shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Chipman
How far is Chipman from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Chipman is 1.3 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Chipman?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Chipman?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.9 for women, 78.2 for men around Chipman (2022/2024).
How is Chipman’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 Chipman’s homes are from a hospital, 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).