Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainVery good or excellent health for just 43% of adults around Westmorland; the typical Canadian town: 52%
A baby born in the region can expect 81.5 years, 83.5 for a girl and 79.5 for a boy (2022/2024). Measured from where Westmorland’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 16 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Westmorland is C+.
What stands out about health in Westmorland
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Westmorland the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 23 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Westmorland 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.
From Westmorland, a hospital is 16 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Westmorland, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Westmorland travel further than most of the province: the typical town in New Brunswick is 11 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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 about where the region’s deprivation puts it, a shade above
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Westmorland’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Westmorland belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.9 predicts: 81.5 years, the trend 81.3. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (8 of 10, median 80.9 years). The towns here bring in about $73,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
25% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 10% 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: 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Westmorland’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
42% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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 weaker than in the province: 47% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in New Brunswick, and 25% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Westmorland
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westmorland | 16 km | 43% | 81.5 | C+ |
| Cumberland County, Subdivision C 19 km | 12 km | 42% | 79.3 | D |
| Botsford 19 km | 34 km | 43% | 81.5 | C |
Cumberland County, Subdivision C falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 79.3 against 81.5 here. Botsford is the furthest from care, 34 km to Westmorland’s 16 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- 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. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Westmorland itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Westmorland
How healthy is Westmorland?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How is Westmorland’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Westmorland has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Westmorland from a hospital?
Residents of Westmorland have a pharmacy 14 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Westmorland?
For the health region that includes Westmorland, women can expect 83.5 years and men 79.5 (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).