Photo: Red Castle · CC BY-SA 4.018% of adults smoke in the health region around Saint-Quentin, against 12% for the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 48%, ahead of the 44% for New Brunswick. For Saint-Quentin itself the measure is access: 3.8 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Saint-Quentin a grade of C+.
What stands out about health in Saint-Quentin
Life expectancy below the norm
Born around Saint-Quentin, 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 4.6 out of 5, Saint-Quentin sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
A lighter load of 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-Quentin 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.
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
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-Quentin’s 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.6% diabetes
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
Self-reported obesity, 45%, 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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Saint-Quentin’s region is near the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Saint-Quentin’s region fits it, 79.1 years at 3.6 against the line’s 78.8. It outlives 6 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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.
The nearest hospital is 3.8 km from the average home in Saint-Quentin
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Quentin’s own, not the region’s.
From Saint-Quentin that is nearer than the 11 km of the typical town in New Brunswick, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in New Brunswick: 46% 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
On mental health the region is ahead of New Brunswick, 58% very good or excellent to 49%; 22% describe most days as quite a bit 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-Quentin
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-Quentin | 3.8 km | 48% | 79.1 | C+ |
| Saint-Quentin 1.4 km | 1.7 km | 48% | 79.1 | C+ |
| Kedgwick 14 km | 18 km | 36% | 79.0 | D− |
Across a regional line, Kedgwick has its own figures: life expectancy 79.0, against 79.1 here. Residents of Kedgwick live further from a hospital, at 18 km against 3.8 km in Saint-Quentin.
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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Quentin shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
Questions about health in Saint-Quentin
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Quentin?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 80.7 for women, 77.3 for men around Saint-Quentin (2022/2024).
How healthy is Saint-Quentin?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Saint-Quentin’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Saint-Quentin: 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 Saint-Quentin from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Saint-Quentin is 2.2 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
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).