Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainHealth in Havelock trails 91% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 43% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to New Brunswick’s 44%. What sets Havelock apart within its region is distance: 29 km to a hospital on average, over 30 km for 56% of residents. Health gives Havelock a grade of D.
What stands out about health in Havelock
Far from a hospital
Distance is Havelock’s own health question: 56% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 33 km. Getting care ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Havelock runs 2.2 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.1 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs low
Even once age is allowed for, 8.4 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (42% as answered). Health survey ↓
More chronic illness
High blood pressure (31%) and diabetes (8.5%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Havelock 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.
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.
The nearest hospital is 29 km from the average home in Havelock
Straight-line distances from each part of Havelock, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Havelock is on the far side. 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.
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
This region is 4th longest-lived of 7 in New Brunswick, on a scale from 78.9 to 81.5 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Havelock’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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in New Brunswick: 42% 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
Asked about their mental health, 50% of adults here said very good or excellent; across New Brunswick it was 49%, and 22% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
31% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.5% 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
Self-reported obesity, 45%, sits within a few points of 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.1 years of life
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Havelock’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Havelock belongs to lives less long than its score of 3.1 predicts: 79.3 years, where the trend gives 80.4. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 80.9 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.
Health in the places around Havelock
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havelock | 29 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
| Salisbury 15 km | 29 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Petitcodiac 17 km | 33 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
Across a regional line, Salisbury has its own figures: life expectancy 81.5, against 79.3 here.
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.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Havelock alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Havelock
How far is Havelock from a hospital?
For everyday care, Havelock’s residents are 15 km from a pharmacy on average.
How healthy is Havelock?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 21% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Havelock?
Women in Havelock’s region live to 81.1 on average and men to 77.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Havelock’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 Havelock’s homes are from a hospital, against 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).