Photo: A Disappearing Act · CC BY-SA 2.051% of adults around Fairview rate their health very good or excellent
Across the region, life runs to 81.4 years on average: women 83.4, men 79.3, in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Fairview live 3.8 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Fairview a grade of B+, #9 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,459 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Fairview
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Fairview has 12 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.6 km away. 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.
Fairview 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: #9 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,459 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 Fairview: 3.8 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Fairview’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 9.2 km for the typical town in Nova Scotia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Fairview is on the near side. 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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 0.8 years short of the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Fairview’s region shows under the trend.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Fairview belongs to lives less long than its score of 2.6 predicts: 81.4 years, where the trend gives 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.5% 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 lower than in the province, at 35% 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.
How the 4 health regions in Nova Scotia compare on life expectancy
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
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Fairview’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Nova Scotia (47%)
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 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Fairview is 26th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 15,872 to 16,710 people, median 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Toronto ON A | 16,007 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Côte-Saint-Paul QC A | 16,403 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Saint-Sauveur QC A+ | 16,104 | 0.7 km | 62% |
| 24 | Mercier QC A | 16,036 | 3.7 km | 55% |
| 25 | South Windsor ON B | 15,896 | 3.8 km | 52% |
| 26 | Fairview NS B+ | 16,296 | 3.8 km | 51% |
| 27 | Almonte ON B− | 16,073 | 4.4 km | 51% |
| 28 | Winkler MB B− | 16,156 | 4.6 km | 51% |
| 40 | Lavaltrie QC B | 15,996 | 18 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Fairview
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview | 3.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Mount Royale 1.5 km | 5.0 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Windsor Park 1.9 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Westmount 2.6 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Clayton Park West 3.2 km | 6.2 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| North End 3.4 km | 0.7 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Schmidtville 4.9 km | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Fairview from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Residents of Schmidtville live nearer a hospital, at 0.6 km against 3.8 km in Fairview.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Fairview shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Fairview
How is Fairview’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Fairview has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Fairview?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
What is the life expectancy in Fairview?
There is no figure for Fairview alone; its health region’s is 83.4 for women and 79.3 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Fairview from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Fairview is 0.6 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
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).