Photo: Jay Woodworth from Brooklyn, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0Saint Martins scores below 92% of Canadian towns for health
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 43% very good or excellent, 44% for New Brunswick. What sets Saint Martins apart within its region is distance: 36 km to a hospital on average, over 30 km for 100% of residents. Health gives Saint Martins a grade of D.
What stands out about health in Saint Martins
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Saint Martins live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (34 km from its centre of population), and 100% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Saint Martins’ region sits 2.2 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.1 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Fewer people feeling well
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 8.4 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 42% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
A heavier load of illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 31% of adults, diabetes for 8.5%. 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 Martins grades D 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.
The nearest hospital is 36 km from the average home in Saint Martins
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint Martins’ own, not the region’s.
Compared with 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Saint Martins is on the far 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
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
Ranked 4th of 7 in New Brunswick: the regions span 78.9 to 81.5 years at birth.
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 Martins’ 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.
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
Neither ahead nor behind New Brunswick on mental health (50% to 49%), the region has 22% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
31% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.5% 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
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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.1 years short of the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Saint Martins’ region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Saint Martins belongs to lives less long than its score of 3.1 predicts: 79.3 years, where the trend gives 80.4. 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.
Health in the places around Saint Martins
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Same region, same survey: Saint Martins’ neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint Martins itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Saint Martins
How far is Saint Martins from a hospital?
Residents of Saint Martins have a pharmacy 24 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Saint Martins?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 21%.
What is the life expectancy in Saint Martins?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.1 for women, 77.3 for men around Saint Martins (2022/2024).
How is Saint Martins’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint Martins 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).