Photo: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota · CC BY-SA 2.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Austinville’s health region
Women in the region live to 83.4 and men to 79.3, 81.4 years taken together (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Austinville live 2.6 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Austinville grades B+ for health, #5 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,358 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Austinville
Pharmacies close at hand
With 9.2 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.1 km off, Austinville is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
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.
Austinville 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: #5 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,358 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 Austinville: 2.6 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Austinville, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Austinville are closer than most of the province: the typical town in Nova Scotia is 9.2 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. 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.
0.8 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Austinville’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.6, Austinville’s region’s 81.4 years sit under the line’s 82.2. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 5 of them above it, a median of 81.7. On income alone, around $81,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (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 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.5%
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
Self-reported obesity, 35%, trails Nova Scotia (39%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
How the 4 health regions in Nova Scotia compare on life expectancy
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Nova Scotia, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Top of the 4 regions in Nova Scotia: the lowest figure is 78.8, 2.6 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Austinville 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Nova Scotia: 51% to 47%
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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Nova Scotia (48% 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Austinville is 21st nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (26,972 to 29,077 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montagne QC A | 28,569 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 2 | Parc-Kent QC A | 27,291 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 3 | Marie-Victorin QC A | 28,904 | 0.6 km | 54% |
| 19 | York University Heights ON A | 28,557 | 2.4 km | 50% |
| 20 | Grandview-Woodland BC A+ | 28,119 | 2.5 km | 50% |
| 21 | Austinville NS B+ | 28,021 | 2.6 km | 51% |
| 22 | Duberger—Les Saules QC A+ | 27,419 | 2.8 km | 62% |
| 23 | Agincourt North ON A | 27,790 | 2.9 km | 50% |
| 40 | Amherstburg ON B− | 27,509 | 19 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Austinville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austinville | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Manor Park 2.6 km | 1.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| North End 2.8 km | 0.7 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Windsor Park 3.2 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Schmidtville 4.0 km | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Woodlawn 4.0 km | 4.1 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Fairview 5.0 km | 3.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
Austinville and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t.
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. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Austinville alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
Questions about health in Austinville
How is Austinville’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Austinville has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Austinville?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is Austinville from a hospital?
For everyday care, Austinville’s residents are 1.1 km from a pharmacy on average.
What is the life expectancy in Austinville?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.4 for women, 79.3 for men around Austinville (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).