Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0More long-term illness in Inkerman’s health region: 20% on the three conditions, the typical Canadian town 17%
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 49% very good or excellent, against 44% in New Brunswick. Measured from where Inkerman’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 15 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Inkerman a grade of C+.
What stands out about health in Inkerman
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Inkerman the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 16 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Inkerman’s region sits 1.3 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.4 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Inkerman at 4.6 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Set against regions as deprived (4.2), Inkerman’s region gains years: 80.2 where the trend says 76.5. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Inkerman 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 3.7 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Inkerman’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 4.2 on the index, the line expects 76.5 years; Inkerman’s region reaches 80.2. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, none lives longer; the middle of the group is 77.9 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.
From Inkerman, a hospital is 15 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Inkerman, 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, Inkerman 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
Life expectancy in New Brunswick runs from 78.9 to 81.5; this region sits 2nd of the 7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Inkerman’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.
In the region, high blood pressure (37%) and diabetes (14%)
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, 40% 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.
46% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in New Brunswick (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
On mental health the region is ahead of New Brunswick, 59% very good or excellent to 49%; 18% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Inkerman
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The neighbours all sit in Inkerman’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Caraquet is the closest to care, 2.9 km to Inkerman’s 15 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Inkerman shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Inkerman
How far is Inkerman from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Inkerman is 12 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Inkerman?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.7 for women, 77.8 for men around Inkerman (2022/2024).
How is Inkerman’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Inkerman’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Inkerman?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).