More smokers around Grand Falls: 18% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 12%
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 48%, ahead of the 44% for New Brunswick. Closer to home, a hospital is 12 km from the average resident of Grand Falls, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Grand Falls is C.
What stands out about health in Grand Falls
Shorter lives in the region
Grand Falls’ region sits 2.4 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.5 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Far from a hospital
Residents of Grand Falls live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (11 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Grand Falls’ neighbourhoods average 4.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.6%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Grand Falls 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.
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 5th 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; Grand Falls’ 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.
The nearest hospital is 12 km from the average home in Grand Falls
Straight-line distances from each part of Grand Falls, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care Grand Falls 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.6% 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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 45% 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.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Grand Falls’ region comes out on the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Grand Falls belongs to lives about as long as its score of 3.6 predicts: 79.1 years, the trend 78.8. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (6 of 10, median 78.7 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.
46% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in New Brunswick (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 beats New Brunswick as well: 58% very good or excellent to 49%, with 22% 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 Grand Falls
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Falls | 12 km | 48% | 79.1 | C |
| Denmark 11 km | 16 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Grand Falls / Grand-Sault 11 km | 1.3 km | 48% | 79.1 | C+ |
| Drummond 14 km | 9.3 km | 48% | 79.1 | C |
| Saint-André 17 km | 6.1 km | 48% | 79.1 | C+ |
| Tobique 20 19 km | 6.1 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Denmark’s life expectancy is 80.1, this region’s 79.1. Residents of Grand Falls / Grand-Sault live nearer a hospital, at 1.3 km against 12 km in Grand Falls.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Grand Falls’ own.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Grand Falls
What is the life expectancy in Grand Falls?
There is no figure for Grand Falls alone; its health region’s is 80.7 for women and 77.3 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Grand Falls from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 12 km from the average resident of Grand Falls, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is Grand Falls?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How is Grand Falls’ Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Grand Falls: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with 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).