Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for just 43% of adults around Rothesay; the typical Canadian town: 52%
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 79.3, women 81.1 and men 77.3 (2022/2024). What sets Rothesay apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 13 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Rothesay is C−, #49 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,424 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Rothesay
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Rothesay, a child can expect 2.2 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.1 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 31% report high blood pressure and 8.5% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Rothesay’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 12 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.
Rothesay 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. Its place: #49 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,424 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.
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
This region is 4th longest-lived of 7 in New Brunswick, on a scale from 78.9 to 81.5 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Rothesay itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
In the region, high blood pressure (31%) and diabetes (8.5%)
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
At 45%, self-reported obesity is near New Brunswick’s 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.
From Rothesay, a hospital is 13 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Rothesay, weighted by who lives there.
That is close to the 11 km of the typical town in New Brunswick (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Rothesay goes. 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.
1.1 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Rothesay’s region shows under the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Rothesay’s region, at 3.1, should live about 80.4 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 79.3. It is outlived by 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 80.9 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.
42% 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
For 22% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 50% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near New Brunswick’s 49%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Rothesay comes 37th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (12,378 to 12,903 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yonge-Bay Corridor ON A | 12,888 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | DT Hospital ON A− | 12,384 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 3 | Regent Park ON A | 12,797 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 35 | Saint-Hippolyte QC A | 12,550 | 12 km | 60% |
| 36 | Carignan QC A− | 12,618 | 12 km | 55% |
| 37 | Rothesay NB C− | 12,626 | 13 km | 43% |
| 38 | Brighton ON C | 12,900 | 14 km | 49% |
| 39 | Wellesley ON B+ | 12,413 | 19 km | 53% |
| 40 | Lac Ste. Anne County AB D− | 12,639 | 25 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Rothesay
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rothesay | 13 km | 43% | 79.3 | C− |
| Quispamsis 4.2 km | 17 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
| Kingston 12 km | 22 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
| Saint John 13 km | 3.4 km | 43% | 79.3 | C |
| Simonds 14 km | 21 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
| Hampton 15 km | 27 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
| Westfield 16 km | 14 km | 43% | 79.3 | C− |
Same region, same survey: Rothesay’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Hampton live further from a hospital, at 27 km against 13 km in Rothesay.
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. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Rothesay alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- 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.
Questions about health in Rothesay
How healthy is Rothesay?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 21%.
What is the life expectancy in Rothesay?
Women in Rothesay’s region live to 81.1 on average and men to 77.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Rothesay from a hospital?
For everyday care, Rothesay’s residents are 2.1 km from a pharmacy on average.
How is Rothesay’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Rothesay has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against 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).