Photo: Patrick Emond (mon conjoint) et moi même (Isabelle Provencher). · Public domainMore long-term illness in Nigadoo’s health region: 20% on the three conditions, the typical Canadian town 17%
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 49%, ahead of the 44% for New Brunswick. Measured from where Nigadoo’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 10 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Nigadoo is C+.
What stands out about health in Nigadoo
Far from a hospital
Distance is Nigadoo’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 10 km. Getting care ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Life expectancy in the region around Nigadoo runs 1.3 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.4 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (4.2), Nigadoo’s region gains years: 80.2 where the trend says 76.5. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Nigadoo 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.
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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 3.7 years
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Nigadoo’s lies above the line.
At 4.2 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 76.5 years, and the region Nigadoo belongs to reaches 80.2. It tops the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 77.9 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.
The nearest hospital is 10 km from the average home in Nigadoo
Straight-line distances from each part of Nigadoo, weighted by who lives there.
Nothing unusual for Nigadoo here: the typical town in New Brunswick is 11 km from a hospital and 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.
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
The region comes 2nd of 7 in New Brunswick, where life expectancy runs from 78.9 to 81.5 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Nigadoo’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
In the region, high blood pressure (37%) and diabetes (14%)
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
Obesity tracks the province: 40% of adults here, 42% across New Brunswick.
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.
46% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in New Brunswick (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 ahead of New Brunswick, 59% very good or excellent to 49%; 18% 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.
Health in the places around Nigadoo
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigadoo | 10 km | 49% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Beresford 3.7 km | 12 km | 49% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Beresford 4.6 km | 5.6 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| Petit-Rocher 5.8 km | 15 km | 49% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Bathurst 13 km | 11 km | 49% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Bathurst 13 km | 3.5 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
The neighbours all sit in Nigadoo’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Bathurst live nearer a hospital, at 3.5 km against 10 km in Nigadoo.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Nigadoo alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Nigadoo
How far is Nigadoo from a hospital?
For everyday care, Nigadoo’s residents are 5.0 km from a pharmacy on average.
What is the life expectancy in Nigadoo?
There is no figure for Nigadoo alone; its health region’s is 82.7 for women and 77.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Nigadoo?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
How is Nigadoo’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 Nigadoo’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
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).