Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Enfield scores below 97% of Canadian towns for health
In the health survey, 42% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Nova Scotia’s 48%. Measured from where Enfield’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 26 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Enfield is D−, #2,573 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Enfield
A long way to hospital
Distance is Enfield’s own health question: 19% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 30 km. Getting care ↓
Smoking runs high
Around Enfield, 14% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Less upbeat about their health
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 9.6 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 41%. Health survey ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Enfield’s region sits 2.2 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.2 years ahead (2022/2024). 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.
Enfield 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.
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: #2,573 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.
Getting to hospital from Enfield: 26 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Enfield’s own, not the region’s.
From Enfield that is further than the 9.2 km of the typical town in Nova Scotia, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. The clinic list is thin in Nova Scotia: 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.
29% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 13% 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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 43% of adults against 39% for Nova Scotia.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Nova Scotia: 41% to 47%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Nova Scotia (44% against 48%), while 24% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Longest and shortest lives among the 4 regions in Nova Scotia
Regional life expectancy in Nova Scotia, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 3rd longest-lived of 4 in Nova Scotia, on a scale from 78.8 to 81.4 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Enfield’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
The region lives 1.4 years longer than its deprivation predicts
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Enfield’s region comes out above the trend.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.8 on the index, the line expects 77.9 years; Enfield’s region reaches 79.3. It outlives 7 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 78.5 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.
Enfield is 40th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 25,789 to 28,182 people, median 3.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parc-Kent QC A | 27,291 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 2 | Loyola QC A | 26,607 | 0.6 km | 54% |
| 3 | René-Lévesque QC A | 28,061 | 0.6 km | 54% |
| 38 | Amherstburg ON B− | 27,509 | 19 km | 52% |
| 39 | Saint-Lin--Laurentides QC B | 26,673 | 20 km | 56% |
| 40 | Enfield NS D− | 26,960 | 26 km | 42% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Enfield
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enfield | 26 km | 42% | 79.3 | D− |
| Indian Brook 14 12 km | 27 km | 42% | 79.3 | D− |
| Dutch Settlement 16 km | 16 km | 51% | 81.4 | B− |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Dutch Settlement’s life expectancy is 81.4, this region’s 79.3.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Enfield itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Two regions. About 8% of Enfield’s residents live in Zone 4 - Central, a second health region; the page shows the region most residents live in.
Questions about health in Enfield
How far is Enfield from a hospital?
Residents of Enfield have a pharmacy 7.3 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Enfield?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 21%.
How is Enfield’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Enfield has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Enfield?
There is no figure for Enfield alone; its health region’s is 81.5 for women and 77.1 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).