PennfieldNew Brunswick

Pennfield gets a D for health

Area-wide: health survey and life expectancy, counted over the Zone 2 (Saint John area)

In the health survey, 43% of adults in the region rated their health very good or excellent, about level with New Brunswick’s towns (43%) and below Canadian towns (52%). The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Pennfield live 39 km from a hospital on average, and 100% of them more than 30 km. For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 79.3 years at birth, 81.1 for women and 77.3 for men.

With 0.3 jobs for each resident in work, most of Pennfield commutes out

Getting to work takes 27 min on average.

Pennfield is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Service New Brunswick - GeoNB

Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.080 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). More homes than usual carry radon here, 11% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Wildfire is rare near Pennfield: 0.6% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.02% a year. Pennfield doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Region 2 health region.

For the force that serves Pennfield, the Crime Severity Index is 88, above New Brunswick’s towns and Canadian towns

A best guess: the nearest detachment’s figures, since none is filed under Pennfield · The Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 numbers here cover the St George detachment area

Where it is policed, 17.7 violent incidents per 1,000 residents are recorded each year. The violent index for its police area came to 106, higher than both New Brunswick’s towns (82) and Canadian towns (86).

Pennfield has cooler summers than New Brunswick’s towns or Canadian towns: July highs of 19.9°C

There are 135 days of frost in a typical year, lower than both New Brunswick’s towns (170) and Canadian towns (159). Pennfield sees January nights of −9.5°C on average. Gardeners get 165 frost-free days, from 4 May to 17 October. A normal January brings 60 cm of snow, the most of any month.

Pennfield gets a B+ for cost of living

Owners make up 88% of households, about level with New Brunswick’s towns (86%) and above Canadian towns (74%). 6% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, below New Brunswick’s towns (9%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike.

Protected land around Pennfield beats 8 in 10 Canadian towns

National parks are all over 100 km off. The nearest provincial park, New River Beach Provincial Park, is 3.1 km away. Within 10 km, the count of public protected areas is 29, above New Brunswick’s towns (7) and Canadian towns (4) alike. Magaguadavic River (2,110 ha) is the biggest, 1.2 km from town.

Pennfield’s teenagers travel 7.6 km to the nearest high school

Young children have 6 km to the nearest elementary school, above both New Brunswick’s towns (1.6 km) and Canadian towns (0.5 km).

Pennfield in November: highs near 8°C, lows near 1°C

Expect around 13 cm of snow in November. November normally sees 103 mm of precipitation. December follows at 3°C by day and −5°C by night. The year peaks in August (21°C) and bottoms out in January (−10°C).

Pennfield’s MP is John Williamson (Conservative Party of Canada), for Saint John—St. Croix

Across New Brunswick, 6 of the 10 MPs sit with the Liberal Party of Canada.

Pennfield has no public library of its own; the nearest is Ross Memorial Library, 25 km away

Library statistics aren’t published openly in New Brunswick, so there are no visit or loan figures for Pennfield.

8.4% of Pennfield’s residents speak English and French (New Brunswick’s towns: 27%; Canadian towns: 7.5%)

14% are under 15, near New Brunswick’s towns (15%) and lower than Canadian towns (16%). Those 65 and older account for just over a fifth of residents.