Photo: Phil284 · CC BY-SA 3.0Only 43% of adults around Cocagne call their health very good or excellent, below the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Lives in the region last 81.5 years on average (2022/2024): 83.5 for women, 79.5 for men. What sets Cocagne apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 24 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Cocagne a grade of C, #27 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,273 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cocagne
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Cocagne the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 24 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.
Cocagne 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: #27 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,273 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.
From Cocagne, a hospital is 24 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Cocagne, weighted by who lives there.
From Cocagne 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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Cocagne’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Cocagne belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.9 predicts: 81.5 years, the trend 81.3. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (8 of 10, median 80.9 years). Lower incomes, longer lives: about $73,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
High blood pressure for 25% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
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.
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
This is the longest-lived of the 7 regions in New Brunswick, 2.6 years ahead of the last at 78.9.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Cocagne itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health much as in New Brunswick: 42% to 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.
Cocagne is 36th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,938 to 3,022 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dewdney Place SK B+ | 3,021 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 2 | Buchanan ON B | 3,006 | 1.0 km | 53% |
| 3 | Wawa ON C− | 2,943 | 1.2 km | 46% |
| 34 | Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu QC A− | 2,984 | 17 km | 55% |
| 35 | Wallace-Woodworth MB C | 2,983 | 19 km | 51% |
| 36 | Cocagne NB C | 2,982 | 24 km | 43% |
| 37 | Division No. 1, Subdivision E NL D− | 2,978 | 27 km | 44% |
| 38 | Stanstead QC A− | 2,994 | 27 km | 57% |
| 40 | Markstay-Warren ON D | 2,990 | 32 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cocagne
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cocagne | 24 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Dundas 6.7 km | 27 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Saint-Antoine 9.0 km | 22 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Bouctouche 14 km | 11 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Shediac 16 km | 22 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Wellington 17 km | 11 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Saint Mary 17 km | 18 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
Same region, same survey: Cocagne’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Wellington live nearer a hospital, at 11 km against 24 km in Cocagne.
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.
- 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. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Cocagne’s own.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Cocagne
How far is Cocagne from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 9.8 km from the average resident of Cocagne, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is Cocagne?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How is Cocagne’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Cocagne: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Cocagne?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.5 for women, 79.5 for men around Cocagne (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).