Health in Petitcodiac · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Petitcodiac’s health region reports 43% in very good or excellent health, behind the typical Canadian town’s 52%
Life expectancy in the region is 81.5 years (83.5 for women, 79.5 for men, 2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 33 km from the average resident of Petitcodiac, and 100% live more than 30 km away. Petitcodiac grades C for health.
For 100% of homes in Petitcodiac the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 34 km. Getting care ↓
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.
Health Grade
Petitcodiac 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 (43%)Better than 6% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 37% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 63% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.5)Better than 64% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (33 km)Better than 8% 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.
Getting care
From Petitcodiac, a hospital is 33 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Petitcodiac’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
33 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
34 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.9 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Petitcodiac is further out than the provincial norm of 11 km in New Brunswick, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. Few clinics are listed in New Brunswick, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Petitcodiac’s region is near the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Petitcodiac belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.9 predicts: 81.5 years, the trend 81.3. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 8 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 80.9 years. A household income of about $73,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 0.14).
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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 25% of adults in the region, diabetes for 10%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
25%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
10%
Obese (self-reported)
43%
Mood disorder
17%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
19%
New Brunswick
About as many adults report obesity as across New Brunswick: 43%, the province 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.
The wider area
How the 7 health regions in New Brunswick compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in New Brunswick, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
81.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.8
more years expected at 65
1st
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
No region of the 7 in New Brunswick lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 78.9, a gap of 2.6 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.0
Economic dependency4.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.7
Situational vulnerability3.7
The index is context and never graded: it describes Petitcodiac’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.
Health survey
42% 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
Health very good or excellent
42%
Health fair or poor
18%
Mental health very good or excellent
47%
Mental health fair or poor
18%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
57%
Satisfied with life
83%
New Brunswick
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 47% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in New Brunswick, and 25% find most days quite 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 Petitcodiac
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Not every neighbour shares the region: Havelock’s life expectancy is 79.3, this region’s 81.5.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Petitcodiac itself is the trip to care.
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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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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.
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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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Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
Questions about health in Petitcodiac
How far is Petitcodiac from a hospital?
Residents of Petitcodiac have a pharmacy 0.9 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Petitcodiac?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How is Petitcodiac’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Petitcodiac: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Petitcodiac?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.5 for women, 79.5 for men around Petitcodiac (2022/2024).
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