Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Nackawic scores below 88% of Canadian towns for health
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 45%; New Brunswick as a whole is at 44%. Closer to home, a hospital is 41 km from the average resident of Nackawic, and 100% live more than 30 km away. Health gives Nackawic a grade of D.
What stands out about health in Nackawic
Far from a hospital
Residents of Nackawic live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (41 km from its centre of population), and 100% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Nackawic than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 11% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Fewer people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 7.0 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (44% as answered). Health survey ↓
No pharmacy close by
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 31 km from the average home in Nackawic, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Nackawic grades D 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.
From Nackawic, a hospital is 41 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Nackawic, 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, Nackawic is on the far 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.
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.4% 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
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.
Self-rated health much as in New Brunswick: 44% to 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 trails New Brunswick: 45% very good or excellent to 49%, with 26% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.0 years short of the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Nackawic’s, lies beneath the trend.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.9, Nackawic’s region’s 80.1 years sit under the line’s 81.1. It is outlived by 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose 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.
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 3rd of the 7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Nackawic’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.
Health in the places around Nackawic
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nackawic | 41 km | 45% | 80.1 | D |
| Southampton 7.6 km | 33 km | 45% | 80.1 | D |
| Queensbury 19 km | 32 km | 45% | 80.1 | D |
One health region covers Nackawic and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Nackawic itself is the trip to care.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
Questions about health in Nackawic
How far is Nackawic from a hospital?
Residents of Nackawic have a pharmacy 31 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Nackawic?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How is Nackawic’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Nackawic: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Nackawic?
Women in Nackawic’s region live to 81.9 on average and men to 78.2, 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).