Photo: Squelle · Public domainHealth in Pennfield trails 92% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 43% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to New Brunswick’s 44%. 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. The Health grade for Pennfield is D.
What stands out about health in Pennfield
Far from a hospital
For 100% of homes in Pennfield the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 37 km. Getting care ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Pennfield, a child can expect 2.2 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.1 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Fewer people feeling well
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 ↓
A heavier load of illness
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.
Pennfield 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 Pennfield, a hospital is 39 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Pennfield, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Pennfield travel further than most of the province: the typical town in New Brunswick is 11 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. 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.
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
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Pennfield’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.
Self-rated health much as in New Brunswick: 42% to 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
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.
High blood pressure for 31% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.5%
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
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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.1 years short of the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Pennfield’s, lies beneath the trend.
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 3.1 would suggest 80.4 years, but Pennfield’s region stops at 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.
Health in the places around Pennfield
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennfield | 39 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
| St. George 9.0 km | 35 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
| Saint George 9.8 km | 35 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
Around Pennfield the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for 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. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Pennfield alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Pennfield
How far is Pennfield from a hospital?
For everyday care, Pennfield’s residents are 7.2 km from a pharmacy on average.
How is Pennfield’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Pennfield’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Pennfield?
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.
What is the life expectancy in Pennfield?
Women in Pennfield’s region live to 81.1 on average and men to 77.3, 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).