Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainMore smokers around Saint-Jacques: 18% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 12%
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 48%, ahead of the 44% for New Brunswick. What sets Saint-Jacques apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 12 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Saint-Jacques a grade of C.
What stands out about health in Saint-Jacques
A region where lives run shorter
Born around Saint-Jacques, 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 ↓
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Saint-Jacques the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 9.2 km. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 8.6%. Conditions and habits ↓
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-Jacques 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
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
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Saint-Jacques’ residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
The nearest hospital is 12 km from the average home in Saint-Jacques
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Jacques’ own, not the region’s.
Against 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint-Jacques sits near the middle. 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.6%
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
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.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Saint-Jacques’ lies near the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Saint-Jacques’ region is a typical case: 79.1 years at a score of 3.6, where the trend says 78.8. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (6 of 10, median 78.7 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.
Self-rated health beats New Brunswick: 46% very good or excellent, against 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 beats New Brunswick as well: 58% very good or excellent to 49%, with 22% 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-Jacques
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-Jacques | 12 km | 48% | 79.1 | C |
| Saint-Joseph 4.3 km | 9.5 km | 48% | 79.1 | C |
| Edmundston 8.1 km | 3.7 km | 48% | 79.1 | C+ |
Saint-Jacques and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Edmundston is the closest to care, 3.7 km to Saint-Jacques’ 12 km.
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.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Jacques shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Saint-Jacques
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Jacques?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 80.7 for women, 77.3 for men around Saint-Jacques (2022/2024).
How far is Saint-Jacques from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Jacques is 8.8 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Saint-Jacques?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How is Saint-Jacques’ Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Saint-Jacques’ own distance to care, 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).