Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFewer adults feel healthy around Lincoln: 45% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
A baby born in the region can expect 80.1 years, 81.9 for a girl and 78.2 for a boy (2022/2024). Measured from where Lincoln’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 9.7 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Lincoln is C, #36 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,319 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Lincoln
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Lincoln than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 11% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Born around Lincoln, a child can expect 1.4 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.6 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Lincoln the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 11 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Lincoln 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: #36 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,319 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.
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
Fewer adults report obesity than across New Brunswick: 39%, the province 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.
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
This region is 3rd 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 Lincoln’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 9.7 km from the average home in Lincoln
Straight-line distances from each part of Lincoln, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Lincoln travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in New Brunswick is 11 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.0 years of life
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Lincoln’s region shows under the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.9, the expected figure is 81.1 years, and Lincoln’s region falls below with 80.1. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 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.
Self-rated health much as in New Brunswick: 44% to 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: Lincoln comes 33rd of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (7,966 to 8,216 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadview BC A | 8,008 | 0.6 km | 48% |
| 2 | Wolseley MB B+ | 8,127 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 3 | Shaughnessy BC A+ | 8,034 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 31 | Allard AB B | 8,148 | 6.8 km | 51% |
| 32 | Haliburton Village ON C+ | 8,100 | 8.9 km | 49% |
| 33 | Lincoln NB C | 8,093 | 9.7 km | 45% |
| 34 | Otonabee-South Monaghan ON C | 8,084 | 13 km | 47% |
| 35 | Alnwick/Haldimand ON C | 8,197 | 18 km | 49% |
| 40 | Clare NS D− | 8,020 | 38 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Lincoln
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln | 9.7 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| New Maryland 8.6 km | 5.6 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Oromocto 8.7 km | 2.1 km | 45% | 80.1 | C+ |
| New Maryland 8.7 km | 13 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Burton 12 km | 8.3 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Starlight Village 13 km | 9.6 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Maugerville 13 km | 9.3 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
The neighbours all sit in Lincoln’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Oromocto is the closest to care, 2.1 km to Lincoln’s 9.7 km.
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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Lincoln shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Lincoln
How healthy is Lincoln?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How is Lincoln’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Lincoln 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 Lincoln?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.9 for women, 78.2 for men around Lincoln (2022/2024).
How far is Lincoln from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Lincoln is 7.1 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
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).