Photo: evoluc · CC BY-SA 2.0Memramcook’s health region reports 43% in very good or excellent health, behind the typical Canadian town’s 52%
People in the region live to 81.5 on average: 83.5 for women and 79.5 for men in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 17 km from the average resident of Memramcook, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Memramcook is C, #20 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,236 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Memramcook
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Memramcook 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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Memramcook 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: #20 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,236 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.
From Memramcook, a hospital is 17 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Memramcook’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Memramcook 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.
Life expectancy about where the region’s deprivation puts it, a shade above
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Memramcook’s, follows the trend.
At 2.9 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.3 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Memramcook belongs to reaches 81.5. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 80.9 years. Households here earn around $73,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (correlation 0.14).
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.
25% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 10% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 regions in New Brunswick
Regional life expectancy in New Brunswick, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This is the longest-lived of the 7 regions in New Brunswick, 2.6 years ahead of the last at 78.9.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Memramcook’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in New Brunswick: 42% and 43%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across New Brunswick (47% against 49%), while 25% call most days 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: Memramcook comes 34th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 5,533 to 5,728 people, median 4.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meadow Lake SK C | 5,667 | 0.6 km | 46% |
| 2 | Montcalm MB B+ | 5,676 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Bankview AB A+ | 5,610 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 32 | Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan QC B+ | 5,675 | 16 km | 56% |
| 33 | Waterloo QC A | 5,714 | 17 km | 57% |
| 34 | Memramcook NB C | 5,616 | 17 km | 43% |
| 35 | Osoyoos BC B− | 5,724 | 18 km | 52% |
| 36 | Havelock ON C− | 5,663 | 20 km | 47% |
| 40 | Chertsey QC B | 5,678 | 30 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Memramcook
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memramcook | 17 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Dorchester 9.4 km | 11 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Hillsborough 10 km | 21 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Hillsborough 11 km | 21 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Dieppe 16 km | 6.0 km | 43% | 81.5 | B− |
| Sackville 18 km | 2.0 km | 43% | 81.5 | B− |
| Coverdale 19 km | 13 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
The neighbours all sit in Memramcook’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Sackville live nearer a hospital, at 2.0 km against 17 km in Memramcook.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Memramcook shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Memramcook
How healthy is Memramcook?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Memramcook from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Memramcook is 3.7 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How is Memramcook’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 Memramcook’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Memramcook?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.5 for women, 79.5 for men around Memramcook (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).