Photo: Brad4826 · CC BY 3.0Westfield’s health region reports 43% in very good or excellent health, behind the typical Canadian town’s 52%
A baby born in the region can expect 79.3 years, 81.1 for a girl and 77.3 for a boy (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Westfield’s is long: 14 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Westfield grades C− for health.
What stands out about health in Westfield
Shorter lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Westfield runs 2.2 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.1 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Far from a hospital
Distance is Westfield’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 12 km. Getting care ↓
A heavier load of illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 31% of adults, diabetes for 8.5%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Westfield 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.
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.
How the 7 health regions in New Brunswick compare on life expectancy
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
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Westfield’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting to hospital from Westfield: 14 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Westfield, weighted by who lives there.
From Westfield that is further than the 11 km of the typical town in New Brunswick, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
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
About as many adults report obesity as across New Brunswick: 45%, 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.1 years behind the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Westfield’s lies below the line.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Westfield belongs to lives less long than its score of 3.1 predicts: 79.3 years, where the trend gives 80.4. 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.
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
Mental health reads like the rest of New Brunswick: 50% against 49%, and 22% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Westfield
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westfield | 14 km | 43% | 79.3 | C− |
| Grand Bay-Westfield 6.6 km | 10 km | 43% | 79.3 | C− |
| Greenwich 11 km | 22 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
| Saint John 15 km | 3.4 km | 43% | 79.3 | C |
| Rothesay 16 km | 13 km | 43% | 79.3 | C− |
| Kingston 17 km | 22 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
| Quispamsis 18 km | 17 km | 43% | 79.3 | D |
One health region covers Westfield and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Saint John live nearer a hospital, at 3.4 km against 14 km in Westfield.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Westfield alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
Questions about health in Westfield
How healthy is Westfield?
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.
How is Westfield’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Westfield’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Westfield?
For the health region that includes Westfield, women can expect 81.1 years and men 77.3 (2022/2024).
How far is Westfield from a hospital?
For everyday care, Westfield’s residents are 10 km from a pharmacy on average.
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).