Photo: ProjectHorizons · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Eastern Passage, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 83.4 and men to 79.3, 81.4 years taken together (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 7.0 km from the average resident of Eastern Passage, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Eastern Passage is B, #18 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,645 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Eastern Passage 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: #18 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,645 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 0.8 years behind the trend
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Eastern Passage’s region, below the line, stands for every town in it.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.6, Eastern Passage’s region’s 81.4 years sit under the line’s 82.2. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 5 of 10; their median is 81.7 years. 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (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.
From Eastern Passage, a hospital is 7.0 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Eastern Passage, weighted by who lives there.
That is close to the 9.2 km of the typical town in Nova Scotia (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Eastern Passage goes. 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
No region of the 4 in Nova Scotia lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 78.8, a gap of 2.6 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Eastern Passage’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.
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
Mental health reads like the rest of Nova Scotia: 48% against 48%, and 24% 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.
Eastern Passage is 25th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (10,482 to 11,014 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Sacrement QC A+ | 10,650 | 0.4 km | 62% |
| 2 | Weston-Pelham Park ON A | 10,680 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | Bendale South ON A | 10,885 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 23 | Walkerton ON C+ | 10,811 | 4.0 km | 48% |
| 24 | Ocean Park BC A | 10,845 | 4.5 km | 50% |
| 25 | Eastern Passage NS B | 10,745 | 7.0 km | 51% |
| 26 | Bois-des-Filion QC A+ | 10,666 | 7.1 km | 60% |
| 27 | West St. Paul MB B | 10,796 | 7.2 km | 52% |
| 40 | Yellowhead County AB D− | 10,966 | 27 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Eastern Passage
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Passage | 7.0 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Cole Harbour 5.5 km | 5.5 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Portland Estates 6.1 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Manor Park 8.3 km | 1.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Schmidtville 8.4 km | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Westphal 8.9 km | 6.7 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Lawrencetown 9.3 km | 12 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
Eastern Passage and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Schmidtville live nearer a hospital, at 0.6 km against 7.0 km in Eastern Passage.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Eastern Passage itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Eastern Passage
How is Eastern Passage’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Eastern Passage’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Eastern Passage from a hospital?
Residents of Eastern Passage have a pharmacy 1.8 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Eastern Passage?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
What is the life expectancy in Eastern Passage?
For the health region that includes Eastern Passage, women can expect 83.4 years and men 79.3 (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).