St. GeorgeNew Brunswick

St. George earns a D for health

Measured from where St. George’s residents live, a hospital is 35 km away on average and 100% of them are over 30 km out. On average just over a fifth of adults live with arthritis, diabetes or high blood pressure, above New Brunswick’s towns (18%) and Canadian towns (17%) alike. Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 79.3, women 81.1 and men 77.3 (2022/2024). Self-rated health is ordinary for New Brunswick: 43% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 44%. For health survey and life expectancy, the only official count covers all of the Zone 2 (Saint John area), St. George included.

Hazard risk in St. George is higher than in 87% of Canadian towns

Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Region 2 health region

Service New Brunswick - GeoNB has mapped the flood hazard here: one study on the national inventory. Fire seldom reaches St. George: since 1986, 0.5% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.01% a year). More homes than usual carry radon here, 11% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. NRCan’s model puts the yearly earthquake loss at $0.15 per $1,000 of building value, higher than both New Brunswick’s towns ($0.036) and Canadian towns ($0.030).

Crime runs heavier where St. George is policed than in New Brunswick’s towns or Canadian towns, at an index of 88

Violence across its police area runs at 17.7 per 1,000 residents a year. For violence alone, its police area’s index was 106, higher than both New Brunswick’s towns (82) and Canadian towns (86).

Summers stay cool in St. George: July afternoons reach 19.9°C, below New Brunswick’s towns and Canadian towns

The year’s precipitation totals 1,125 mm, near New Brunswick’s towns (1,121 mm) and higher than Canadian towns (883 mm). Winter lows in St. George average −9.5°C in January. Frost usually lifts by 4 May and returns around 17 October: 165 days without it. Snow peaks in January: 60 cm in a normal year.

2 schools serve St. George, 1 elementary school and 1 school for every grade

A normal November in St. George runs from 1°C to 8°C

Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Saint Andrews forecast, on the Weather page. Looking ahead to December, expect highs near 3°C and lows near −5°C. About 13 cm of snow falls in a normal November. In November, the normal is 103 mm of rain and snow.

John Williamson (Conservative Party of Canada) represents St. George in Ottawa as MP for Saint John—St. Croix

From New Brunswick come 10 MPs, 6 of them with the Liberal Party of Canada.

The nearest public library to St. George is Ross Memorial Library, 19 km away

Library statistics aren’t published openly in New Brunswick, so there are no visit or loan figures for St.

A place people come to for work: St. George has 2.2 jobs per resident in work

Workers spend 21 min getting to work, on average. 95% of commuters drove to work at the census.

9.6% of St. George’s residents speak English and French (New Brunswick’s towns: 27%; Canadian towns: 7.5%)

14% are under 15, below New Brunswick’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (16%) alike. Over-65s are nearly a quarter of the population.

St. George earns a B− for cost of living

The owner-occupied share of households is 74%. 17% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, higher than New Brunswick’s towns (9%) and near Canadian towns (18%).

6 beaches lie within 5 km of St. George

No national park lies within 100 km. The nearest provincial park, New River Beach Provincial Park, is 20 km away. The largest named area nearby is 4041400, 1,149 ha, 4.2 km away. Out to 10 km from the town’s edge, 4.7% of the land is protected; 2.3% is typical for a Canadian town.