Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainVery good or excellent health for just 43% of adults around Moncton; the typical Canadian town: 52%
People in the region live to 81.5 on average: 83.5 for women and 79.5 for men in 2022/2024. What sets Moncton apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 12 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Moncton a grade of C+, #16 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,174 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Moncton
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Moncton’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 8.5 km. Getting care ↓
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.
Moncton 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: #16 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,174 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 12 km from the average home in Moncton
Straight-line distances from each part of Moncton, weighted by who lives there.
Moncton is near the provincial norm, 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick, with the typical Canadian town at 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
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Moncton’s dot is marked, close to the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.9 about 81.3 years; Moncton’s region’s 81.5 is within a year of it. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (8 of 10, median 80.9 years). Modest pay, about $73,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
High blood pressure for 25% of adults in the region, diabetes for 10%
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
At 43%, self-reported obesity is near New Brunswick’s 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.
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
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Moncton’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.
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
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 47% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in New Brunswick, and 25% find most days quite 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: Moncton comes 33rd of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (11,968 to 12,499 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DT Hospital ON A− | 12,384 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Yonge-Eglinton ON A | 12,424 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Woodbine Corridor ON A | 12,283 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 31 | Orleans Village - Chateauneuf ON A | 12,399 | 9.9 km | 56% |
| 32 | Bromont QC A | 12,413 | 11 km | 57% |
| 33 | Moncton NB C+ | 12,238 | 12 km | 43% |
| 34 | St. Andrews MB C− | 12,021 | 12 km | 50% |
| 35 | Grey Highlands ON C+ | 12,148 | 13 km | 48% |
| 40 | Wetaskiwin County No. 10 AB C− | 12,117 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Moncton
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Nothing in the regional columns separates Moncton from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Residents of Moncton live nearer a hospital, at 2.7 km against 12 km in Moncton.
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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Moncton shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- 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.
Questions about health in Moncton
How healthy is Moncton?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How is Moncton’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Moncton has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Moncton from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Moncton is 7.7 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Moncton?
For the health region that includes Moncton, women can expect 83.5 years and men 79.5 (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).