Photo: Marinadeshippagan · Public domainChronic conditions run high around Shippagan: 20% on average, against 17% for the typical Canadian town
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 49% very good or excellent, against 44% in New Brunswick. For Shippagan itself the measure is access, and it lags: 7.6 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Shippagan grades B− for health, #7 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,069 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Shippagan
A region where lives run shorter
Shippagan’s region sits 1.3 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.4 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.7 out of 5, Shippagan sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
At 80.2 years, Shippagan’s region outlives the 76.5 that regions scoring 4.2 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Shippagan grades B− 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. Its place: #7 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,069 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 3.7 years
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Shippagan’s region is above the line.
At 4.2 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 76.5 years, and the region Shippagan belongs to reaches 80.2. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, none lives longer; the middle of the group is 77.9 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 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
The region comes 2nd 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Shippagan’s 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (37%) and diabetes (14%)
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: 40%, 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.
The nearest hospital is 7.6 km from the average home in Shippagan
Straight-line distances from each part of Shippagan, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care Shippagan is ordinary: 11 km is the typical figure in New Brunswick, 3.7 km for 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.
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
Mental health beats New Brunswick as well: 59% very good or excellent to 49%, with 18% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Shippagan is 25th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,029 to 3,124 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tisdale SK C− | 3,052 | 0.7 km | 47% |
| 2 | Princeton BC B+ | 3,050 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Leslie Park - Bruce Farm ON A+ | 3,056 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 23 | Greenbelt (east) ON A | 3,094 | 7.1 km | 56% |
| 24 | Clermont QC A+ | 3,117 | 7.2 km | 62% |
| 25 | Shippagan NB B− | 3,073 | 7.6 km | 49% |
| 26 | Grenville-sur-la-Rouge QC A | 3,040 | 9.1 km | 60% |
| 27 | Saint-Dominique QC A | 3,062 | 10 km | 55% |
| 40 | Elkford BC B− | 3,030 | 55 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Shippagan
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
One health region covers Shippagan and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Inkerman is the furthest from care, 15 km to Shippagan’s 7.6 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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 Shippagan’s own.
Questions about health in Shippagan
How is Shippagan’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Shippagan’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Shippagan?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.7 for women, 77.8 for men around Shippagan (2022/2024).
How healthy is Shippagan?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Shippagan from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.0 km from the average resident of Shippagan, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
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).