Photo: Erj1211 · CC BY-SA 3.0Eel River Crossing scores below 95% of Canadian towns for health
In the health survey, 36% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than New Brunswick’s 44%. Measured from where Eel River Crossing’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 16 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Eel River Crossing is D.
What stands out about health in Eel River Crossing
Self-rated health runs low
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 15.4 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 34% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
A heavier load of illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 36% of adults, diabetes for 17%. Conditions and habits ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Eel River Crossing, a child can expect 2.5 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.7 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
At 79.0 years, Eel River Crossing’s region outlives the 75.9 that regions scoring 4.4 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Eel River Crossing 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.
Self-rated health trails New Brunswick: 34% very good or excellent, against 43%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region is ahead of New Brunswick, 55% very good or excellent to 49%; 17% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
High blood pressure for 36% of adults in the region, diabetes for 17%
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.
The region lives 3.1 years longer than its deprivation predicts
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Eel River Crossing’s region comes out above the trend.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 4.4 at 75.9 years of life; Eel River Crossing’s region does better, at 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
This region is 6th 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Eel River Crossing’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.
From Eel River Crossing, a hospital is 16 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Eel River Crossing, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Eel River Crossing travel further than most of the province: the typical town in New Brunswick is 11 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
Health in the places around Eel River Crossing
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Nouvelle falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 79.9 against 79.0 here. Campbellton is the closest to care, 1.0 km to Eel River Crossing’s 16 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Eel River Crossing itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
Questions about health in Eel River Crossing
How healthy is Eel River Crossing?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 24% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Eel River Crossing?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Eel River Crossing’s health region only: 82.3 years for women and 75.3 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Eel River Crossing from a hospital?
Residents of Eel River Crossing have a pharmacy 8.9 km away on average, in a straight line.
How is Eel River Crossing’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Eel River Crossing 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).