Photo: Not specified · Public domainAround Richmond, 45% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 80.1, with women at 81.9 and men at 78.2. For Richmond itself the measure is access, and it lags: 22 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Richmond grades C− for health.
What stands out about health in Richmond
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Richmond’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 25 km. Getting care ↓
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Richmond is well above the typical town’s; 11% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Richmond’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
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Richmond at 4.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Richmond 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 Richmond, a hospital is 22 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Richmond, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Richmond travel further than 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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.4%
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
Obesity runs lower than in the province, at 39% of adults against 42% for New Brunswick.
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.
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
Ranked 3rd of 7 in New Brunswick: the regions span 78.9 to 81.5 years at birth.
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; Richmond’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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.0 years short of the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Richmond’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Richmond belongs to lives less long than its score of 2.9 predicts: 80.1 years, where the trend gives 81.1. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 9 of them above it, a median of 81.2.
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.
Self-rated health much as in New Brunswick: 44% to 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
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across New Brunswick (45% against 49%), while 26% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Richmond
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond | 22 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Woodstock 12 km | 19 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Woodstock 14 km | 15 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
| Northampton 19 km | 18 km | 45% | 80.1 | C− |
One health region covers Richmond and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Richmond alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Richmond
How far is Richmond from a hospital?
For everyday care, Richmond’s residents are 12 km from a pharmacy on average.
How is Richmond’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Richmond’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Richmond?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Richmond?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Richmond’s health region only: 81.9 years for women and 78.2 for men (2022/2024).
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).