Photo: Skaarup.HA · CC BY-SA 3.0Oromocto’s health region reports 45% in very good or excellent health, behind the typical Canadian town’s 52%
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 80.1, with women at 81.9 and men at 78.2. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Oromocto is well placed: 2.1 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Oromocto is C+, #19 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,230 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Oromocto
Smoking runs high
The age-standardised smoking rate around Oromocto is well above the typical town’s; 11% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Oromocto’s region sits 1.4 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.6 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Oromocto 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: #19 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,230 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.
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.4% 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
Self-reported obesity, 39%, trails New Brunswick (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
Among the 7 regions in New Brunswick, from 78.9 to 81.5 years, this one is 3rd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Oromocto’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.
The region lives 1.0 years less than its deprivation predicts
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Oromocto’s region shows under the trend.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.9, Oromocto’s region’s 80.1 years sit under the line’s 81.1. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 9 of 10; their 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.
The nearest hospital is 2.1 km from the average home in Oromocto
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Oromocto’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Oromocto is on the near 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.
44% 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
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 45% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in New Brunswick, and 26% 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: Oromocto comes 12th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 9,247 to 9,653 people, median 3.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North London ON A− | 9,584 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 2 | Daniel McIntyre MB B+ | 9,584 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Rustic ON A | 9,543 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 10 | Cooksville NHD (East) ON A− | 9,313 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 11 | Steeles Corners ON A | 9,468 | 1.7 km | 51% |
| 12 | Oromocto NB C+ | 9,451 | 2.1 km | 45% |
| 13 | Revelstoke BC C+ | 9,464 | 2.4 km | 48% |
| 14 | Amber Trails MB B+ | 9,256 | 2.4 km | 52% |
| 40 | Castlegar BC B | 9,465 | 21 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Oromocto
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oromocto | 2.1 km | 45% | 80.1 | C+ |
| Burton 7.0 km | 8.3 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Lincoln 8.7 km | 9.7 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Maugerville 9.6 km | 9.3 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| New Maryland 16 km | 5.6 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| New Maryland 17 km | 13 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Fredericton 18 km | 4.0 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Oromocto’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of New Maryland live further from a hospital, at 13 km against 2.1 km in Oromocto.
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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Oromocto’s own.
- 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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
Questions about health in Oromocto
How healthy is Oromocto?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Oromocto?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.9 for women, 78.2 for men around Oromocto (2022/2024).
How is Oromocto’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Oromocto: 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 Oromocto from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.9 km from the average resident of Oromocto, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
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).