Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainVery good or excellent health for just 45% of adults around Kingsclear; 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 Kingsclear’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 17 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Kingsclear a grade of C−, #47 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,401 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Kingsclear
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Kingsclear live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (18 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Smoking runs high
The age-standardised smoking rate around Kingsclear is well above the typical town’s; 11% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Life expectancy in the region around Kingsclear runs 1.4 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.6 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Kingsclear 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. Its place: #47 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,401 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
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 17 km from the average home in Kingsclear
Straight-line distances from each part of Kingsclear, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Kingsclear 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (9.4%)
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 runs lower than in the province, at 39% 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 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 3rd 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Kingsclear’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.0 years short of the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Kingsclear’s region’s dot is under the line.
Where residents average 2.9 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.1 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Kingsclear belongs to trails at 80.1. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 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.
44% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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 behind New Brunswick, 45% very good or excellent to 49%; 26% 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Kingsclear comes 33rd of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,114 to 3,202 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blakeley ON B+ | 3,151 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Cedar Hill ON A | 3,190 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 3 | St. Clair ON B+ | 3,201 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 31 | Saint-Liboire QC A− | 3,123 | 15 km | 55% |
| 32 | Pincher Creek No. 9 AB C+ | 3,176 | 17 km | 52% |
| 33 | Kingsclear NB C− | 3,158 | 17 km | 45% |
| 34 | Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine BC D− | 3,189 | 17 km | 42% |
| 35 | Thorhild County AB D− | 3,147 | 22 km | 48% |
| 40 | Houston BC D− | 3,114 | 54 km | 42% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Kingsclear
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingsclear | 17 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Starlight Village 10.0 km | 9.6 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Queensbury 11 km | 32 km | 45% | 80.1 | D |
| Prince William 11 km | 32 km | 45% | 80.1 | D |
| New Maryland 15 km | 13 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Bright 15 km | 23 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| New Maryland 15 km | 5.6 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
Around Kingsclear the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Prince William is the furthest from care, 32 km to Kingsclear’s 17 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Kingsclear shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
Questions about health in Kingsclear
How healthy is Kingsclear?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Kingsclear from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Kingsclear is 9.3 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How is Kingsclear’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Kingsclear has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Kingsclear?
There is no figure for Kingsclear alone; its health region’s is 81.9 for women and 78.2 for men in 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).