Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0For health, St. George sits behind 92% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for New Brunswick: 43% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 44%. 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. Health gives St. George a grade of D.
What stands out about health in St. George
Far from a hospital
Residents of St. George live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (35 km from its centre of population), and 100% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A region where lives run shorter
St. George’s region sits 2.2 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.1 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs low
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 8.4 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 42%. Health survey ↓
A heavier load of illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 31% report high blood pressure and 8.5% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
St. George 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.
From St. George, a hospital is 35 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is St. George’s own, not the region’s.
St. George is further out than the provincial norm of 11 km in New Brunswick, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. 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.
Life expectancy across the 7 health regions in New Brunswick
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
Of the 7 health regions in New Brunswick, 4th place goes to this one, between a low of 78.9 and a high of 81.5.
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 St. George’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.
Self-rated health much as in New Brunswick: 42% 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
Asked about their mental health, 50% of adults here said very good or excellent; across New Brunswick it was 49%, and 22% reported most days stressful.
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
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
Obesity tracks the province: 45% of adults here, 42% across New Brunswick.
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; St. George’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Where residents average 3.1 on the index, regions tend to reach 80.4 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one St. George belongs to trails at 79.3. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 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 St. George
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. George | 35 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
| Saint George 7.3 km | 35 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
| Pennfield 9.0 km | 39 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
| Saint Andrews 19 km | 21 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
Only the hospital column is local here: St. George and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 St. George’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in St. George
How far is St. George from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.0 km from the average resident of St. George, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is St. George?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 21% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in St. George?
Women in St. George’s region live to 81.1 on average and men to 77.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is St. George’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and St. George’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).