Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainOn health, Queensbury falls short of 86% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 45%; New Brunswick as a whole is at 44%. Measured from where Queensbury’s residents live, a hospital is 32 km away on average and 39% of them are over 30 km out. Queensbury grades D for health.
What stands out about health in Queensbury
Far from a hospital
Residents of Queensbury live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (27 km from its centre of population), and 39% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
Around Queensbury, 11% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Fewer people feeling well
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 7.0 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 44% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Queensbury takes a trip of 18 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Queensbury 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.
The nearest hospital is 32 km from the average home in Queensbury
Straight-line distances from each part of Queensbury, weighted by who lives there.
Queensbury is further out than the provincial norm of 11 km in New Brunswick, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
Fewer adults report obesity than across New Brunswick: 39%, 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.
44% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to New Brunswick (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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.0 years behind the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Queensbury’s, lies beneath the trend.
Where residents average 2.9 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.1 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Queensbury belongs to trails at 80.1. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 81.2 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 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
Life expectancy in New Brunswick runs from 78.9 to 81.5; this region sits 3rd of the 7.
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; Queensbury’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.
Health in the places around Queensbury
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queensbury | 32 km | 45% | 80.1 | D |
| Prince William 9.8 km | 32 km | 45% | 80.1 | D |
| Bright 10 km | 23 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Kingsclear 11 km | 17 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Nackawic 19 km | 41 km | 45% | 80.1 | D |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Queensbury’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Queensbury shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Queensbury
How far is Queensbury from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Queensbury is 18 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Queensbury?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Queensbury?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.9 for women, 78.2 for men around Queensbury (2022/2024).
How is Queensbury’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Queensbury: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with 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).