Health in Norton · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
For health, Norton sits behind 88% of Canadian towns
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across New Brunswick, 43% against 44%. Closer to home, a hospital is 20 km from the average resident of Norton, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Norton is D.
Residents of Norton 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 ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Norton’s region sits 2.2 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.1 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs low
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 8.4 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 42% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Long-term conditions run high
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 31% of adults, diabetes for 8.5%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Norton 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.
Very good or excellent health (43%)Better than 8% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (21%)Better than 8% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.3)Better than 31% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (20 km)Better than 25% of Canadian towns
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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Norton: 20 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Norton’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
20 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
20 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
16 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Compared with 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Norton 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.
How the 7 health regions in New Brunswick compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in New Brunswick, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
79.3
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.1
more years expected at 65
4th
longest of 7 regions in New Brunswick
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Zone 1 (Moncton area)81.5
Zone 6 (Bathurst area)80.2
Zone 3 (Fredericton area)80.1
Zone 2 (Saint John area)79.3
Zone 4 (Edmundston area)79.1
Zone 5 (Campbellton area)79.0
Zone 7 (Miramichi area)78.9
This region is 4th longest-lived of 7 in New Brunswick, on a scale from 78.9 to 81.5 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.3
Economic dependency2.4
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability4.3
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Norton’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
42% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Health very good or excellent
42%
Health fair or poor
22%
Mental health very good or excellent
50%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
84%
New Brunswick
For 22% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 50% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near New Brunswick’s 49%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Conditions and habits
31% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.5% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
31%
Arthritis
29%
Diabetes
8.5%
Obese (self-reported)
45%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
17%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
22%
New Brunswick
At 45%, 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.
For its deprivation
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.1 years behind the trend
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Norton’s region, below the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.1, the expected figure is 80.4 years, and Norton’s region falls below with 79.3. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do better (9 of 10), with a median of 80.9.
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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Norton
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Only the hospital column is local here: Norton and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Sussex is the closest to care, 1.8 km to Norton’s 20 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Norton’s own.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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.
Questions about health in Norton
How healthy is Norton?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 21% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Norton from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 16 km from the average resident of Norton, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Norton?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Norton’s health region only: 81.1 years for women and 77.3 for men (2022/2024).
How is Norton’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Norton has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
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