Photo: Coastal Elite from Halifax, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Beaver Bank’s health region
Across the region, life runs to 81.4 years on average: women 83.4, men 79.3, in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 9.0 km from the average resident of Beaver Bank, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Beaver Bank is B, #22 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,764 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Beaver Bank 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: #22 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,764 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.
0.8 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Beaver Bank’s, lies beneath the trend.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Beaver Bank belongs to lives less long than its score of 2.6 predicts: 81.4 years, where the trend gives 82.2. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 5 of them above it, a median of 81.7. Modest pay, about $81,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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
At 35%, self-reported obesity is below Nova Scotia’s 39%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Getting to hospital from Beaver Bank: 9.0 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Beaver Bank, weighted by who lives there.
Against 9.2 km for the typical town in Nova Scotia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Beaver Bank sits near the middle. Few clinics are listed in Nova Scotia, 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 4 health regions in Nova Scotia
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
This is the longest-lived of the 4 regions in Nova Scotia, 2.6 years ahead of the last at 78.8.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Beaver Bank 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.
Self-rated health beats Nova Scotia: 51% very good or excellent, against 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
For 24% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 48% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Nova Scotia’s 48%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Beaver Bank is 34th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (8,994 to 9,322 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Central SK B+ | 9,124 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 2 | Booth MB B+ | 9,016 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Downtown Commercial Core AB A+ | 9,286 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 32 | Boischatel QC A+ | 9,250 | 8.7 km | 62% |
| 33 | Stony Mountain MB C− | 9,180 | 8.7 km | 50% |
| 34 | Beaver Bank NS B | 9,157 | 9.0 km | 51% |
| 35 | Queenswood Heights ON A | 8,998 | 11 km | 56% |
| 36 | L'Épiphanie QC B+ | 9,254 | 14 km | 56% |
| 40 | Kimberley BC B− | 9,037 | 24 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Beaver Bank
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver Bank | 9.0 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Fall River 4.7 km | 7.3 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Middle Sackville 6.1 km | 6.4 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Lower Sackville 7.3 km | 2.4 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Dutch Settlement 11 km | 16 km | 51% | 81.4 | B− |
| Bedford 13 km | 4.9 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Hammonds Plains 14 km | 10 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
Around Beaver Bank the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Dutch Settlement is the furthest from care, 16 km to Beaver Bank’s 9.0 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Beaver Bank alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
Questions about health in Beaver Bank
How is Beaver Bank’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Beaver Bank’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Beaver Bank from a hospital?
For everyday care, Beaver Bank’s residents are 5.2 km from a pharmacy on average.
How healthy is Beaver Bank?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Beaver Bank?
Women in Beaver Bank’s region live to 83.4 on average and men to 79.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).