Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainSaint-André’s health region counts 18% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 12%
Across the region, 48% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; New Brunswick as a whole manages 44%. Closer to home, a hospital is 6.1 km from the average resident of Saint-André, further than the usual 3.7 km. Saint-André grades C+ for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-André
Life expectancy below the norm
Born around Saint-André, a child can expect 2.4 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.5 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.0 out of 5, Saint-André sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Less chronic illness
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.6%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Saint-André 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.
Life expectancy across the 7 health 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
Life expectancy in New Brunswick runs from 78.9 to 81.5; this region sits 5th of the 7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Saint-André’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.6%)
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
On weight the region is ordinary for New Brunswick: 45% 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Saint-André’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Saint-André’s region fits it, 79.1 years at 3.6 against the line’s 78.8. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 6, with 78.7 years in the middle.
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.
Getting to hospital from Saint-André: 6.1 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-André, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Saint-André are closer than most of the province: the typical town in New Brunswick is 11 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. 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.
Self-rated health beats New Brunswick: 46% very good or excellent, against 43%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across New Brunswick (58% against 49%), while 22% 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 Saint-André
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-André | 6.1 km | 48% | 79.1 | C+ |
| Grand Falls / Grand-Sault 6.1 km | 1.3 km | 48% | 79.1 | C+ |
| Drummond 11 km | 9.3 km | 48% | 79.1 | C |
| Saint-Léonard 14 km | 19 km | 48% | 79.1 | C |
| Grand Falls 17 km | 12 km | 48% | 79.1 | C |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Saint-André’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Saint-Léonard live further from a hospital, at 19 km against 6.1 km in Saint-André.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Saint-André’s own.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Saint-André
What is the life expectancy in Saint-André?
There is no figure for Saint-André alone; its health region’s is 80.7 for women and 77.3 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Saint-André?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Saint-André from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 4.7 km from the average resident of Saint-André, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How is Saint-André’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-André’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).