Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Perth, 45% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Women in the region live to 81.9 and men to 78.2, 80.1 years taken together (2022/2024). What sets Perth apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 8.0 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Perth is C.
What stands out about health in Perth
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Perth than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 11% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Perth’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 ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Perth’s neighbourhoods average 4.2 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Perth 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (9.4%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
At 39%, self-reported obesity is below 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.
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
Of the 7 health regions in New Brunswick, 3rd place goes to this one, between a low of 78.9 and a high of 81.5.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Perth’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
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 Perth’s region shows under the trend.
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 2.9 would suggest 81.1 years, but Perth’s region stops at 80.1. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 9 still live longer, with 81.2 years in the middle.
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.
Getting to hospital from Perth: 8.0 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Perth’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Perth travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in New Brunswick is 11 km from a hospital, 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.
Self-rated health much as in New Brunswick: 44% to 43%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
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.
Health in the places around Perth
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perth | 8.0 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Perth-Andover 5.9 km | 1.3 km | 45% | 80.1 | C+ |
| Tobique 20 9.2 km | 6.1 km | 45% | 80.1 | C |
| Kent 18 km | 21 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
Perth and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Kent is the furthest from care, 21 km to Perth’s 8.0 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Perth 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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Perth
How healthy is Perth?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
What is the life expectancy in Perth?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.9 for women, 78.2 for men around Perth (2022/2024).
How far is Perth from a hospital?
For everyday care, Perth’s residents are 7.7 km from a pharmacy on average.
How is Perth’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Perth has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance 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).