Photo: James Mann from Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada · CC BY 2.0Around Riverview, 43% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.5, women 83.5 and men 79.5 (2022/2024). For Riverview itself the measure is access, and it lags: 5.0 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Riverview a grade of B−, #8 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,070 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Riverview grades B− 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. Its place: #8 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,070 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
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.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Riverview’s dot is marked, close to the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.9 about 81.3 years; Riverview’s region’s 81.5 is within a year of it. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 80.9 years. Modest pay, about $73,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
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
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity tracks the province: 43% of adults here, 42% across 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.
From Riverview, a hospital is 5.0 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Riverview’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, Riverview is on the near 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 regions in New Brunswick
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
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Riverview’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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
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.
Riverview is 34th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 22,012 to 23,207 people, median 2.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Church-Wellesley ON A | 22,415 | 0.2 km | 50% |
| 2 | Moss Park ON A | 22,701 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | High Park North ON A | 22,162 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 32 | Uxbridge ON B | 22,618 | 4.7 km | 50% |
| 33 | Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview ON A− | 22,456 | 4.8 km | 50% |
| 34 | Riverview NB B− | 22,614 | 5.0 km | 43% |
| 35 | Colwood BC A+ | 22,794 | 6.3 km | 55% |
| 36 | Rivière-Blanche QC B | 23,089 | 6.9 km | 55% |
| 40 | Saint-Lazare QC A− | 22,895 | 17 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Riverview
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverview | 5.0 km | 43% | 81.5 | B− |
| Moncton 5.9 km | 2.7 km | 43% | 81.5 | B− |
| Coverdale 7.0 km | 13 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Dieppe 7.3 km | 6.0 km | 43% | 81.5 | B− |
| Moncton 14 km | 12 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Hillsborough 15 km | 21 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Hillsborough 18 km | 21 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
Around Riverview the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Hillsborough is the furthest from care, 21 km to Riverview’s 5.0 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. 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: Riverview shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Riverview
How healthy is Riverview?
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.
How is Riverview’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Riverview’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Riverview from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Riverview is 1.5 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Riverview?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Riverview’s health region only: 83.5 years for women and 79.5 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).