Photo: ...some guy · CC BY 2.0The region around Tracadie carries more chronic illness than the typical Canadian town: 20% to 17%
In the health survey, 49% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than New Brunswick’s 44%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Tracadie live 4.7 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Tracadie a grade of B−, #4 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,027 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Tracadie
A region where lives run shorter
Life expectancy in the region around Tracadie runs 1.3 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.4 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.7 out of 5, Tracadie sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
At 80.2 years, Tracadie’s region outlives the 76.5 that regions scoring 4.2 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
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.
Tracadie 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: #4 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,027 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 3.7 years more here
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Tracadie’s dot is marked, above the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 4.2, the expected figure is 76.5 years, and Tracadie’s region does better with 80.2. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure 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
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
Among the 7 regions in New Brunswick, from 78.9 to 81.5 years, this one is 2nd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Tracadie’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.
37% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 14% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
On weight the region is ordinary for New Brunswick: 40% report obesity, 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 4.7 km from the average home in Tracadie
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Tracadie’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 11 km for the typical town in New Brunswick and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Tracadie is on the near side. The clinic list is thin in New Brunswick: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
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.
46% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in New Brunswick (43%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 59% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in New Brunswick, and 18% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Tracadie is 31st nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 16,007 to 16,904 people, median 2.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Toronto ON A | 16,007 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Côte-Saint-Paul QC A | 16,403 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Davie Village BC A+ | 16,833 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 29 | Winkler MB B− | 16,156 | 4.6 km | 51% |
| 30 | Old Hunt Club ON A | 16,270 | 4.6 km | 56% |
| 31 | Tracadie NB B− | 16,453 | 4.7 km | 49% |
| 32 | Summerside AB B | 16,760 | 5.2 km | 51% |
| 33 | Chutes-Montmorency QC A+ | 16,273 | 5.7 km | 62% |
| 40 | Leduc County AB B− | 16,400 | 17 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Tracadie
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracadie | 4.7 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| Saint-Isidore 10 km | 15 km | 49% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Inkerman 19 km | 15 km | 49% | 80.2 | C+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Tracadie’s regional figures. Residents of Saint-Isidore live further from a hospital, at 15 km against 4.7 km in Tracadie.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an 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.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- 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 Tracadie’s own.
Questions about health in Tracadie
How is Tracadie’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Tracadie’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Tracadie?
For the health region that includes Tracadie, women can expect 82.7 years and men 77.8 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Tracadie?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 20%.
How far is Tracadie from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 6.3 km from the average resident of Tracadie, 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).