Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Moncton’s health region reports 43% in very good or excellent health, behind the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Life expectancy in the region is 81.5 years (83.5 for women, 79.5 for men, 2022/2024). Measured from where Moncton’s residents live, a hospital is 2.7 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. The Health grade for Moncton is B−, #4 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,027 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Moncton
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Moncton can reach 7.9 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.1 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Moncton 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. Its place: #4 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,027 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.
Getting to hospital from Moncton: 2.7 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Moncton’s own, not the region’s.
From Moncton that is nearer than the 11 km of the typical town in New Brunswick, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. The centre of population is 0.5 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 2.7 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Moncton’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Moncton’s region is a typical case: 81.5 years at a score of 2.9, where the trend says 81.3. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 8, with 80.9 years in the middle. A household income of about $73,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (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
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
On weight the region is ordinary for New Brunswick: 43% report obesity, 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.
Life expectancy across the 7 health 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
Top of the 7 regions in New Brunswick: the lowest figure is 78.9, 2.6 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Moncton’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health much as in New Brunswick: 42% 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
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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Moncton comes 7th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 74,655 to 128,693 people, median 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victoria BC A+ | 103,888 | 1.5 km | 55% |
| 2 | New Westminster BC A | 92,124 | 1.8 km | 48% |
| 3 | Chomedey QC A | 81,813 | 1.8 km | 53% |
| 5 | Airdrie AB A+ | 92,544 | 2.3 km | 56% |
| 6 | Newmarket ON A | 95,763 | 2.5 km | 51% |
| 7 | Moncton NB B− | 102,378 | 2.7 km | 43% |
| 8 | Niagara Falls ON C+ | 113,983 | 2.7 km | 49% |
| 9 | Saanich BC A+ | 126,011 | 2.7 km | 55% |
| 40 | Lindsay ON C | 85,351 | 13 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Moncton
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Around Moncton the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Coverdale live further from a hospital, at 13 km against 2.7 km in Moncton.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Moncton alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Moncton
How healthy is Moncton?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Moncton’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Moncton: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Moncton from a hospital?
For everyday care, Moncton’s residents are 1.1 km from a pharmacy on average.
What is the life expectancy in Moncton?
Women in Moncton’s region live to 83.5 on average and men to 79.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).