Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Wellington’s health region reports 43% in very good or excellent health, behind the typical Canadian town’s 52%
People in the region live to 81.5 on average: 83.5 for women and 79.5 for men in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 11 km from the average resident of Wellington, further than the usual 3.7 km. Wellington grades C+ for health, #14 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,156 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Wellington
A long way to hospital
Residents of Wellington live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (8.0 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.3 out of 5, Wellington sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
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.
Wellington grades C+ 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: #14 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,156 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.
The nearest hospital is 11 km from the average home in Wellington
Straight-line distances from each part of Wellington, weighted by who lives there.
That is close to the 11 km of the typical town in New Brunswick (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Wellington goes. 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
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
No region of the 7 in New Brunswick lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 78.9, a gap of 2.6 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Wellington itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Wellington’s lies near the line.
At 2.9 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.3 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Wellington belongs to reaches 81.5. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (8 of 10, median 80.9 years). Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $73,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 0.14).
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.
High blood pressure for 25% of adults in the region, diabetes for 10%
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
On weight the region is ordinary for New Brunswick: 43% 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.
42% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to New Brunswick (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
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across New Brunswick (47% against 49%), while 25% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Wellington is 26th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,400 to 3,516 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lynnwood AB B+ | 3,452 | 0.4 km | 51% |
| 2 | Malartic QC B+ | 3,506 | 0.8 km | 57% |
| 3 | Virginia Park AB B+ | 3,431 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 24 | Saint-Thomas QC A− | 3,477 | 6.7 km | 56% |
| 25 | Port Hawkesbury NS C− | 3,442 | 10 km | 49% |
| 26 | Wellington NB C+ | 3,458 | 11 km | 43% |
| 27 | Lawrencetown NS B | 3,509 | 12 km | 51% |
| 28 | Sainte-Mélanie QC B+ | 3,417 | 12 km | 56% |
| 40 | Lewisporte NL D | 3,405 | 45 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Wellington
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington | 11 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Bouctouche 3.6 km | 11 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Saint Mary 14 km | 18 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Richibucto 15 km | 10 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Saint-Antoine 15 km | 22 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
| Cocagne 17 km | 24 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
Wellington and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Cocagne is the furthest from care, 24 km to Wellington’s 11 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Wellington alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Wellington
How healthy is Wellington?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How far is Wellington from a hospital?
For everyday care, Wellington’s residents are 12 km from a pharmacy on average.
How is Wellington’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Wellington’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Wellington?
There is no figure for Wellington alone; its health region’s is 83.5 for women and 79.5 for men in 2022/2024.
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).