Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Only 43% of adults around Richibucto call their health very good or excellent, below the typical Canadian town’s 52%
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.5, with women at 83.5 and men at 79.5. Closer to home, a hospital is 16 km from the average resident of Richibucto, further than the usual 3.7 km. Richibucto grades C+ for health.
What stands out about health in Richibucto
A long way to hospital
Distance is Richibucto’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 16 km. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Richibucto’s neighbourhoods average 5.0 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.
Richibucto 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.
From Richibucto, a hospital is 16 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Richibucto’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Richibucto is on the far side. 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Top of the 7 regions in New Brunswick: the lowest figure is 78.9, 2.6 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Richibucto’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Richibucto’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
At 2.9 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.3 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Richibucto belongs to reaches 81.5. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (8 of 10, median 80.9 years). Judged by income, around $73,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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.
25% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 10% diabetes
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
On weight the region is ordinary for New Brunswick: 43% report obesity, 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in New Brunswick: 42% and 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
On mental health the region is behind New Brunswick, 47% very good or excellent to 49%; 25% 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.
Health in the places around Richibucto
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richibucto | 16 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Rexton 4.4 km | 12 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Saint-Charles 6.5 km | 20 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Saint-Louis de Kent 9.0 km | 25 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Richibucto 9.6 km | 10 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Saint-Louis 12 km | 26 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Richibucto 15 14 km | 16 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Richibucto from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Saint-Louis is the furthest from care, 26 km to Richibucto’s 16 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Richibucto shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
Questions about health in Richibucto
How healthy is Richibucto?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is Richibucto from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Richibucto is 0.9 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How is Richibucto’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Richibucto has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Richibucto?
Women in Richibucto’s region live to 83.5 on average and men to 79.5, 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).