Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Fredericton’s health region reports 45% in very good or excellent health, behind the typical Canadian town’s 52%
A baby born in the region can expect 80.1 years, 81.9 for a girl and 78.2 for a boy (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Fredericton live 4.0 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Fredericton a grade of C, #21 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,256 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Fredericton
More smokers
Around Fredericton, 11% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Fredericton runs 1.4 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.6 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Fredericton has 5.3 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.6 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Fredericton 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: #21 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,256 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.
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
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.
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
The region comes 3rd of 7 in New Brunswick, where life expectancy runs 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; Fredericton’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.
Getting to hospital from Fredericton: 4.0 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Fredericton, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Fredericton is on the near side. 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.
The region lives 1.0 years less than its deprivation predicts
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Fredericton’s region is below the line.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Fredericton’s region’s: 80.1 years where the line expects 81.1 at 2.9. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 9 of them above it, a median of 81.2.
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in New Brunswick: 44% and 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 looks weaker than in the province: 45% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in New Brunswick, and 26% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Fredericton comes 24th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (55,572 to 97,845 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Vancouver BC A+ | 66,624 | 1.1 km | 59% |
| 2 | New Westminster BC A | 92,124 | 1.8 km | 48% |
| 3 | Chomedey QC A | 81,813 | 1.8 km | 53% |
| 22 | Sault Ste. Marie ON C− | 81,182 | 3.6 km | 46% |
| 23 | North Vancouver BC A+ | 97,845 | 3.6 km | 59% |
| 24 | Fredericton NB C | 74,655 | 4.0 km | 45% |
| 25 | Fleetwood BC A | 63,957 | 4.1 km | 50% |
| 26 | Georgetown ON A | 68,265 | 4.3 km | 54% |
| 40 | Lindsay ON C | 85,351 | 13 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Fredericton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fredericton | 4.0 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Devon 30 2.5 km | 5.8 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| New Maryland 7.6 km | 5.6 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Starlight Village 11 km | 9.6 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Maugerville 12 km | 9.3 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Saint Marys 13 km | 15 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Lincoln 14 km | 9.7 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Fredericton’s; read across for the hospital trip. Saint Marys is the furthest from care, 15 km to Fredericton’s 4.0 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. Only the distances on this page belong to Fredericton alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Fredericton
How healthy is Fredericton?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Fredericton?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.9 for women, 78.2 for men around Fredericton (2022/2024).
How is Fredericton’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 Fredericton’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Fredericton from a hospital?
For everyday care, Fredericton’s residents are 1.6 km from a pharmacy on average.
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).