Health in Stanley · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Stanley scores below 88% of Canadian towns for health
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 45% very good or excellent, 44% for New Brunswick. For Stanley itself, the measure is access: 41 km to the nearest hospital on average, with 100% of homes beyond 30 km. Stanley grades D for health.
New Brunswick: 44% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Zone 3 (Fredericton area)
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
For 100% of homes in Stanley the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 36 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
Around Stanley, 11% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Fewer people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 7.0 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (44% as answered). Health survey ↓
No pharmacy close by
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 34 km from the average home in Stanley, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
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.
Health Grade
Stanley 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.
Very good or excellent health (45%)Better than 13% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 34% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 26% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.1)Better than 44% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (41 km)Better than 5% of Canadian towns
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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Stanley: 41 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Stanley’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
41 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
115 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
34 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Compared with 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Stanley is on the far side. Few clinics are listed in New Brunswick, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (9.4%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
23%
Arthritis
27%
Diabetes
9.4%
Obese (self-reported)
39%
Mood disorder
18%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
23%
New Brunswick
At 39%, self-reported obesity is below New Brunswick’s 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.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in New Brunswick: 44% and 43%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
44%
Health fair or poor
23%
Mental health very good or excellent
45%
Mental health fair or poor
22%
Most days quite a bit stressful
26%
Strong sense of belonging
64%
Satisfied with life
82%
New Brunswick
Mental health trails New Brunswick: 45% very good or excellent to 49%, with 26% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
For its deprivation
The region lives 1.0 years less than its deprivation predicts
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Stanley’s region, below the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.9, Stanley’s region’s 80.1 years sit under the line’s 81.1. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 9 of them above it, a median of 81.2.
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 wider area
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.
80.1
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.6
more years expected at 65
3rd
longest of 7 regions in New Brunswick
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Zone 1 (Moncton area)81.5
Zone 6 (Bathurst area)80.2
Zone 3 (Fredericton area)80.1
Zone 2 (Saint John area)79.3
Zone 4 (Edmundston area)79.1
Zone 5 (Campbellton area)79.0
Zone 7 (Miramichi area)78.9
Ranked 3rd of 7 in New Brunswick: the regions span 78.9 to 81.5 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.6
Economic dependency4.4
Ethno-cultural composition1.4
Situational vulnerability4.4
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Stanley’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.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
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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.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Stanley itself is the trip to care.
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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 Stanley
How far is Stanley from a hospital?
Residents of Stanley have a pharmacy 34 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Stanley?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How is Stanley’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Stanley: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Stanley?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.9 for women, 78.2 for men around Stanley (2022/2024).
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