Health in Glenelg · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Health in Glenelg trails 96% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 47%, ahead of the 44% for New Brunswick. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Glenelg’s is long: 19 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Glenelg grades D− for health.
The age-standardised smoking rate around Glenelg is well above the typical town’s; 19% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Glenelg, a child can expect 2.6 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.8 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Far from a hospital
Distance is Glenelg’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 23 km. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run high
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 29% of adults, diabetes for 17%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Glenelg 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.
Very good or excellent health (47%)Better than 23% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (21%)Better than 3% of Canadian towns
Smokers (20%)Better than 2% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.9)Better than 24% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (19 km)Better than 28% of Canadian towns
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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (29%) and diabetes (17%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
29%
Arthritis
30%
Diabetes
17%
Obese (self-reported)
44%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
19%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
20%
Smoke every day
19%
Heavy drinking
24%
New Brunswick
Obesity tracks the province: 44% of adults here, 42% across 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. Statistics Canada flags heavy drinking “use with caution”.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 regions in New Brunswick
Regional life expectancy in New Brunswick, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
78.9
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.8
more years expected at 65
7th
longest of 7 regions in New Brunswick
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Zone 1 (Moncton area)81.5
Zone 6 (Bathurst area)80.2
Zone 3 (Fredericton area)80.1
Zone 2 (Saint John area)79.3
Zone 4 (Edmundston area)79.1
Zone 5 (Campbellton area)79.0
Zone 7 (Miramichi area)78.9
This is the shortest-lived of the 7 regions in New Brunswick, 2.6 years behind the first at 81.5.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.3
Economic dependency4.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability4.3
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Glenelg’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 19 km from the average home in Glenelg
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Glenelg’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
19 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
87 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
15 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Glenelg 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.3 years more here
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Glenelg’s lies above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.9, the expected figure is 77.6 years, and Glenelg’s region does better with 78.9. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 7 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 78.3 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 survey
Self-rated health much as in New Brunswick: 46% 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
Health very good or excellent
46%
Health fair or poor
15%
Mental health very good or excellent
47%
Mental health fair or poor
12%
Most days quite a bit stressful
17%
Strong sense of belonging
72%
Satisfied with life
80%
New Brunswick
Neither ahead nor behind New Brunswick on mental health (47% to 49%), the region has 17% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Glenelg alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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.
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Glenelg
How is Glenelg’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Glenelg has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Glenelg from a hospital?
For everyday care, Glenelg’s residents are 15 km from a pharmacy on average.
What is the life expectancy in Glenelg?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.0 for women, 75.7 for men around Glenelg (2022/2024).
How healthy is Glenelg?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 21% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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