Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Saint-Quentin’s health region counts 18% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 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-Quentin apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.7 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Saint-Quentin a grade of C+.
What stands out about health in Saint-Quentin
Shorter lives in the region
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 ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.4 out of 5, Saint-Quentin sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.6%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. 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-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
The region comes 5th of 7 in New Brunswick, where life expectancy runs from 78.9 to 81.5 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Saint-Quentin’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
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
About as many adults report obesity as across New Brunswick: 45%, 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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Saint-Quentin’s lies near the line.
At 3.6 on the index, regions tend to reach 78.8 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Saint-Quentin belongs to reaches 79.1. 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 1.7 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. 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.
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
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-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 | 1.7 km | 48% | 79.1 | C+ |
| Saint-Quentin 1.4 km | 3.8 km | 48% | 79.1 | C+ |
| Kedgwick 15 km | 18 km | 36% | 79.0 | D− |
Kedgwick falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 79.0 against 79.1 here. Kedgwick is the furthest from care, 18 km to Saint-Quentin’s 1.7 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saint-Quentin itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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-Quentin
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Quentin?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Quentin’s health region only: 80.7 years for women and 77.3 for men (2022/2024).
How is Saint-Quentin’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Quentin has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Saint-Quentin?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How far is Saint-Quentin from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Quentin have a pharmacy 1.1 km away on average, in a straight line.
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).