Photo: Martin Cathrae from Charlottetown, PE, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Denmark, 45% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Life expectancy in the region is 80.1 years (81.9 for women, 78.2 for men, 2022/2024). Measured from where Denmark’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 16 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Denmark grades C− for health.
What stands out about health in Denmark
Far from a hospital
Distance is Denmark’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 15 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Denmark than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 11% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
No pharmacy close by
From the average home in Denmark, a pharmacy is 15 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Denmark, a child can expect 1.4 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.6 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Denmark 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.
Getting to hospital from Denmark: 16 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Denmark’s own, not the region’s.
Denmark is further out than the provincial norm of 11 km in New Brunswick, and than 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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.4%
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 39%, self-reported obesity is below 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
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
Of the 7 health regions in New Brunswick, 3rd place goes to this one, between a low of 78.9 and a high of 81.5.
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 Denmark’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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.0 years behind the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Denmark’s region comes out below the trend.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 2.9 about 81.1 years of life. Denmark’s region falls short of it, at 80.1. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 9 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 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.
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.
Health in the places around Denmark
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 16 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Drummond 10.0 km | 9.3 km | 48% | 79.1 | C |
| Grand Falls 11 km | 12 km | 48% | 79.1 | C |
| Gordon 12 km | 7.4 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Grand Falls / Grand-Sault 14 km | 1.3 km | 48% | 79.1 | C+ |
| Plaster Rock 16 km | 1.8 km | 45% | 80.1 | C+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Drummond’s life expectancy is 79.1, this region’s 80.1. Residents of Grand Falls / Grand-Sault live nearer a hospital, at 1.3 km against 16 km in Denmark.
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 Denmark itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
Questions about health in Denmark
How healthy is Denmark?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How far is Denmark from a hospital?
Residents of Denmark have a pharmacy 15 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Denmark?
Women in Denmark’s region live to 81.9 on average and men to 78.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Denmark’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Denmark has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance 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).