Only 43% of adults around Saint-Charles call their health very good or excellent, below the typical Canadian town’s 52%
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.5 years at birth, 83.5 for women and 79.5 for men. Measured from where Saint-Charles’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 20 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Saint-Charles is C.
What stands out about health in Saint-Charles
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Saint-Charles the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 21 km. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Saint-Charles at 4.7 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
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.
Saint-Charles 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 Saint-Charles, a hospital is 20 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Charles, 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, Saint-Charles is on the far side. 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.
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
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Saint-Charles’ 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.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Saint-Charles’ region’s dot is close to the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.9, the expected figure is 81.3 years, and Saint-Charles’ region matches it closely with 81.5. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (8 of 10, median 80.9 years). On income alone, around $73,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (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 is close to the province’s level, 43% 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.
Self-rated health much as in New Brunswick: 42% 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
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.
Health in the places around Saint-Charles
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Charles | 20 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Saint-Louis de Kent 3.9 km | 25 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Saint-Louis 6.2 km | 26 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Richibucto 6.5 km | 16 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Rexton 8.3 km | 12 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Richibucto 15 13 km | 16 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Richibucto 15 km | 10 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
Same region, same survey: Saint-Charles’ neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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-Charles’ own.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint-Charles
How healthy is Saint-Charles?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is Saint-Charles from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 4.6 km from the average resident of Saint-Charles, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How is Saint-Charles’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Charles has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Charles?
There is no figure for Saint-Charles 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).