Health in Petit-Rocher · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
More long-term illness in Petit-Rocher’s health region: 20% on the three conditions, the typical Canadian town 17%
In the health survey, 49% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than New Brunswick’s 44%. What sets Petit-Rocher apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 15 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Petit-Rocher is C+.
New Brunswick: 44% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Zone 6 (Bathurst area)
Chronic conditions
20%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
For 0% of homes in Petit-Rocher the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 15 km. Getting care ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Life expectancy in the region around Petit-Rocher runs 1.3 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.4 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 4.2 on the deprivation index typically live 76.5 years; Petit-Rocher’s region, at 80.2, does better. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Petit-Rocher 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.
Very good or excellent health (49%)Better than 30% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 15% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 85% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.2)Better than 46% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (15 km)Better than 39% 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.
For its deprivation
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 3.7 years ahead of the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Petit-Rocher’s region’s dot is above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Petit-Rocher’s region sits above it: 80.2 years where a score of 4.2 predicts 76.5. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median is 77.9 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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 15 km from the average home in Petit-Rocher
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Petit-Rocher’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
15 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
34 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
9.7 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, Petit-Rocher 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.
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.
80.2
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.4
more years expected at 65
2nd
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 2nd 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 instability3.4
Economic dependency4.4
Ethno-cultural composition1.4
Situational vulnerability3.7
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Petit-Rocher’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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 37% of adults in the region, diabetes for 14%
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
37%
Arthritis
27%
Diabetes
14%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
11%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
22%
New Brunswick
Self-reported obesity, 40%, sits within a few points of 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health beats New Brunswick: 46% very good or excellent, against 43%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
46%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
59%
Mental health fair or poor
11%
Most days quite a bit stressful
18%
Strong sense of belonging
70%
Satisfied with life
87%
New Brunswick
On mental health the region is ahead of New Brunswick, 59% very good or excellent to 49%; 18% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Petit-Rocher
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The neighbours all sit in Petit-Rocher’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Bathurst is the closest to care, 3.5 km to Petit-Rocher’s 15 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Petit-Rocher itself is the trip to care.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
Questions about health in Petit-Rocher
How is Petit-Rocher’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Petit-Rocher’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Petit-Rocher from a hospital?
Residents of Petit-Rocher have a pharmacy 9.7 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Petit-Rocher?
For the health region that includes Petit-Rocher, women can expect 82.7 years and men 77.8 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Petit-Rocher?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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