Photo: Red Castle · CC BY-SA 4.0The region around Lamèque carries more chronic illness than the typical Canadian town: 20% to 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 Lamèque’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 2.3 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Lamèque grades B− for health.
What stands out about health in Lamèque
Life expectancy below the norm
Lamèque’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 ↓
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Lamèque at 4.7 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Lamèque’s region beats what its deprivation score of 4.2 predicts: 80.2 years against 76.5. For its deprivation ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Lamèque grades B− 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 region lives 3.7 years longer than its deprivation predicts
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Lamèque’s, lies over the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Lamèque’s region, at 4.2, should live about 76.5 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it 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.
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
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Lamèque’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.
37% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 14% diabetes
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 tracks the province: 40% of adults here, 42% across 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.
From Lamèque, a hospital is 2.3 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Lamèque, 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, Lamèque is on the near 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.
Self-rated health beats New Brunswick: 46% very good or excellent, against 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 looks better than in the province too: 59% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in New Brunswick, and 18% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Lamèque
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamèque | 2.3 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| Shippagan 2.5 km | 8.5 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| Shippagan 10 km | 7.6 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| Bas-Caraquet 15 km | 7.3 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| Caraquet 17 km | 9.1 km | 49% | 80.2 | C+ |
Same region, same survey: Lamèque’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Caraquet live further from a hospital, at 9.1 km against 2.3 km in Lamèque.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Only the distances on this page belong to Lamèque alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Lamèque
What is the life expectancy in Lamèque?
There is no figure for Lamèque alone; its health region’s is 82.7 for women and 77.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Lamèque?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 20%.
How is Lamèque’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Lamèque’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Lamèque from a hospital?
For everyday care, Lamèque’s residents are 9.0 km from a pharmacy on average.
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).