Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainOnly 43% of adults around Hardwicke call their health very good or excellent, below the typical Canadian town’s 52%
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.5 years at birth, 83.5 for women and 79.5 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 39 km from the average resident of Hardwicke, and 100% live more than 30 km away. Health gives Hardwicke a grade of C.
What stands out about health in Hardwicke
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Hardwicke’s own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 42 km. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies far off
From the average home in Hardwicke, a pharmacy is 32 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Hardwicke’s neighbourhoods average 5.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
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.
Hardwicke 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.
Getting to hospital from Hardwicke: 39 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Hardwicke’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Hardwicke is on the far 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This is the longest-lived of the 7 regions in New Brunswick, 2.6 years ahead of the last at 78.9.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Hardwicke’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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Hardwicke’s dot is marked, close to the line.
At 2.9 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.3 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Hardwicke belongs to reaches 81.5. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 8 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 80.9 years. Households here earn around $73,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (correlation 0.14).
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.
High blood pressure for 25% of adults in the region, diabetes for 10%
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
About as many adults report obesity as across New Brunswick: 43%, the province 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.
Self-rated health much as in New Brunswick: 42% 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
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across New Brunswick (47% against 49%), while 25% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two regions. About 31% of Hardwicke’s residents live in Zone 7 (Miramichi area), a second health region; the page shows the region most residents live in.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Hardwicke alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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 Hardwicke
How far is Hardwicke from a hospital?
For everyday care, Hardwicke’s residents are 32 km from a pharmacy on average.
How healthy is Hardwicke?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How is Hardwicke’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 Hardwicke’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Hardwicke?
For the health region that includes Hardwicke, women can expect 83.5 years and men 79.5 (2022/2024).
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).