Photo: Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada · CC BY 2.0Around Sackville, 43% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.5 years at birth, 83.5 for women and 79.5 for men. For Sackville itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.0 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Sackville grades B− for health, #3 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,011 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Sackville 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: #3 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,011 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.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Sackville’s region comes out on the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Sackville belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.9 predicts: 81.5 years, the trend 81.3. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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
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
Self-reported obesity, 43%, sits within a few points of New Brunswick (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 Sackville, a hospital is 2.0 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Sackville, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Sackville 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.
How the 7 health regions in New Brunswick compare on life expectancy
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
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
This is the one part of the block measured for Sackville 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.
Self-rated health much as in New Brunswick: 42% to 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 trails New Brunswick: 47% very good or excellent to 49%, with 25% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Sackville comes 10th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,462 to 6,685 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Humboldt SK C− | 6,551 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 2 | Centre QC A | 6,627 | 0.8 km | 55% |
| 3 | Stipeley ON B | 6,572 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 8 | Whitmore Park SK B+ | 6,603 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 9 | Corman ON B | 6,566 | 1.8 km | 53% |
| 10 | Sackville NB B− | 6,572 | 2.0 km | 43% |
| 11 | Brintnell AB B+ | 6,658 | 2.0 km | 51% |
| 12 | Weston MB B+ | 6,661 | 2.1 km | 52% |
| 40 | Mont-Joli QC B+ | 6,492 | 29 km | 60% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Sackville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sackville | 2.0 km | 43% | 81.5 | B− |
| Sackville 8.1 km | 9.1 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Dorchester 11 km | 11 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Amherst 15 km | 2.9 km | 42% | 79.3 | C− |
| Memramcook 18 km | 17 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Amherst’s life expectancy is 79.3, this region’s 81.5. Memramcook is the furthest from care, 17 km to Sackville’s 2.0 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Sackville’s own.
Questions about health in Sackville
How healthy is Sackville?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Sackville’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Sackville: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Sackville from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.8 km from the average resident of Sackville, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Sackville?
There is no figure for Sackville alone; its health region’s is 83.5 for women and 79.5 for men in 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).