Health in Hartland · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for just 45% of adults around Hartland; the typical Canadian town: 52%
Women in the region live to 81.9 and men to 78.2, 80.1 years taken together (2022/2024). Measured from where Hartland’s residents live, a hospital is 4.6 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. Health gives Hartland a grade of C.
New Brunswick: 44% · The very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy numbers here cover the Zone 3 (Fredericton area)
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Around Hartland, 11% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Hartland, 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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Hartland 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.
Very good or excellent health (45%)Better than 13% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 34% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 26% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.1)Better than 44% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (4.6 km)Better than 74% 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
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.4% diabetes
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
23%
Arthritis
27%
Diabetes
9.4%
Obese (self-reported)
39%
Mood disorder
18%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
23%
New Brunswick
Self-reported obesity, 39%, trails New Brunswick (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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 7 health regions in New Brunswick
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.
80.1
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.6
more years expected at 65
3rd
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
Among the 7 regions in New Brunswick, from 78.9 to 81.5 years, this one is 3rd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.6
Economic dependency2.4
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability1.8
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Hartland’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.0 years behind the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Hartland’s region shows under the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.9, Hartland’s region’s 80.1 years sit under the line’s 81.1. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 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 care
The nearest hospital is 4.6 km from the average home in Hartland
Straight-line distances from each part of Hartland, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
4.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
163 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.9 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 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
From Hartland that is nearer than the 11 km of the typical town in New Brunswick, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. The clinic list is thin in New Brunswick: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Hartland’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Florenceville-Bristol live further from a hospital, at 19 km against 4.6 km in Hartland.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Hartland shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
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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.
Questions about health in Hartland
How healthy is Hartland?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Hartland’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Hartland’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Hartland?
There is no figure for Hartland alone; its health region’s is 81.9 for women and 78.2 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Hartland from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Hartland is 0.9 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0