Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0For health, Kedgwick sits behind 96% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 36% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than New Brunswick’s 44%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Kedgwick’s is long: 18 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Kedgwick grades D− for health.
What stands out about health in Kedgwick
Fewer people feeling well
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 15.4 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 34% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Long-term conditions run high
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 36% of adults, diabetes for 17%. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Born around Kedgwick, a child can expect 2.5 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.7 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
For a deprivation score of 4.4, the trend across regions gives 75.9 years of life; Kedgwick’s region reaches 79.0. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Kedgwick 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.
34% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer 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
Mental health beats New Brunswick as well: 55% very good or excellent to 49%, with 17% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
In the region, high blood pressure (36%) and diabetes (17%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 43%, 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 3.1 years more here
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Kedgwick’s lies above the line.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Kedgwick’s region sits above it: 79.0 years where a score of 4.4 predicts 75.9. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Ranked 6th of 7 in New Brunswick: the regions span 78.9 to 81.5 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Kedgwick’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.
The nearest hospital is 18 km from the average home in Kedgwick
Straight-line distances from each part of Kedgwick, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Kedgwick 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. 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.
Health in the places around Kedgwick
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kedgwick | 18 km | 36% | 79.0 | D− |
| Saint-Quentin 14 km | 3.8 km | 48% | 79.1 | C+ |
| Saint-Quentin 15 km | 1.7 km | 48% | 79.1 | C+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Saint-Quentin’s life expectancy is 79.1, this region’s 79.0. Residents of Saint-Quentin live nearer a hospital, at 1.7 km against 18 km in Kedgwick.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Kedgwick’s own.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Kedgwick
How healthy is Kedgwick?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 24% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Kedgwick from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 16 km from the average resident of Kedgwick, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Kedgwick?
There is no figure for Kedgwick alone; its health region’s is 82.3 for women and 75.3 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Kedgwick’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 Kedgwick’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).