Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFor health, Hampton sits behind 91% of Canadian towns
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across New Brunswick, 43% against 44%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Hampton’s is long: 27 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Hampton grades D for health, #56 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,519 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Hampton
A long way to hospital
Residents of Hampton live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (28 km from its centre of population), and 23% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Born around Hampton, a child can expect 2.2 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.1 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Fewer people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 8.4 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 42%. Health survey ↓
Long-term conditions run high
High blood pressure (31%) and diabetes (8.5%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above 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.
Hampton 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. Its place: #56 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,519 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.
From Hampton, a hospital is 27 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Hampton’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Hampton 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.
Life expectancy across the 7 health regions in New Brunswick
Regional life expectancy in New Brunswick, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in New Brunswick runs from 78.9 to 81.5; this region sits 4th of the 7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Hampton’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in New Brunswick: 42% and 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
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 50% very good or excellent against 49% for New Brunswick; stress is a daily matter for 22%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
In the region, high blood pressure (31%) and diabetes (8.5%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
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.
1.1 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Hampton’s region, below the line, stands for every town in it.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Hampton’s region’s: 79.3 years where the line expects 80.4 at 3.1. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do better (9 of 10), with a median of 80.9.
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Hampton is 40th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,219 to 3,317 people, median 3.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miller AB B+ | 3,294 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 2 | Marathon ON C | 3,223 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 3 | Jasper Park AB B+ | 3,219 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 38 | North Algona Wilberforce ON C− | 3,290 | 25 km | 50% |
| 39 | Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast BC A | 3,256 | 27 km | 59% |
| 40 | Hampton NB D | 3,268 | 27 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Hampton
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Hampton and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Rothesay is the closest to care, 13 km to Hampton’s 27 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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 Hampton’s 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.
Questions about health in Hampton
How far is Hampton from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 5.5 km from the average resident of Hampton, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is Hampton?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 21%.
How is Hampton’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Hampton’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Hampton?
Women in Hampton’s region live to 81.1 on average and men to 77.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).