Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainOnly 45% of adults around Gordon call their health very good or excellent, below the typical Canadian town’s 52%
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 80.1, with women at 81.9 and men at 78.2. What sets Gordon apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 7.4 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Gordon grades C for health.
What stands out about health in Gordon
Smoking runs high
Around Gordon, 11% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Born around Gordon, 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 ↓
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Gordon at 4.4 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Gordon 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.
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
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; Gordon’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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.0 years behind the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Gordon’s, lies beneath the trend.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Gordon’s region’s: 80.1 years where the line expects 81.1 at 2.9. 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.
Getting to hospital from Gordon: 7.4 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Gordon, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care Gordon is ordinary: 11 km is the typical figure in New Brunswick, 3.7 km for 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.
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.
Health in the places around Gordon
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gordon | 7.4 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Plaster Rock 6.7 km | 1.8 km | 45% | 80.1 | C+ |
| Denmark 12 km | 16 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
One health region covers Gordon and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Denmark is the furthest from care, 16 km to Gordon’s 7.4 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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 Gordon’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Gordon
How is Gordon’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 Gordon’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Gordon?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Gordon?
Women in Gordon’s region live to 81.9 on average and men to 78.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Gordon from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 8.2 km from the average resident of Gordon, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
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).