Photo: Paulo O from Halifax, Canada · CC BY 2.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Hammonds Plains’ 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, and Hammonds Plains’ is long: 10 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Hammonds Plains a grade of B, #23 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,809 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Hammonds Plains
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Hammonds Plains the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 10 km. Getting care ↓
Fewer households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Hammonds Plains at 1.3 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the bottom band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Hammonds Plains 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: #23 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,809 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.
The nearest hospital is 10 km from the average home in Hammonds Plains
Straight-line distances from each part of Hammonds Plains, weighted by who lives there.
Nothing unusual for Hammonds Plains here: the typical town in Nova Scotia is 9.2 km from a hospital and the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. 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.
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
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 Hammonds Plains 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Hammonds Plains’ region is below the line.
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 2.6 would suggest 82.2 years, but Hammonds Plains’ region stops at 81.4. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do better (5 of 10), with a median of 81.7. Its towns’ household income, about $81,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s correlation: 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%
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.
Self-rated health beats Nova Scotia: 51% very good or excellent, against 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.
Hammonds Plains is 39th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (13,535 to 14,148 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Queen West ON A | 13,599 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Sillery QC A+ | 13,950 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 3 | E-F-K-Section (bramalea) ON A− | 13,596 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 37 | Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights ON A | 13,998 | 9.5 km | 56% |
| 38 | Findlay Creek ON A | 14,089 | 9.7 km | 56% |
| 39 | Hammonds Plains NS B | 13,844 | 10 km | 51% |
| 40 | Saint-Amable QC A− | 14,119 | 17 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Hammonds Plains
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hammonds Plains | 10 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Middle Sackville 7.7 km | 6.4 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Upper Tantallon 8.1 km | 20 km | 51% | 81.4 | B− |
| Bedford 8.3 km | 4.9 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Lower Sackville 9.2 km | 2.4 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Hubley 9.2 km | 19 km | 51% | 81.4 | B− |
| Timberlea 10 km | 10 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
Around Hammonds Plains the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Upper Tantallon is the furthest from care, 20 km to Hammonds Plains’ 10 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Hammonds Plains alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- 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.
Questions about health in Hammonds Plains
How is Hammonds Plains’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Hammonds Plains’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Hammonds Plains from a hospital?
For everyday care, Hammonds Plains’ residents are 3.2 km from a pharmacy on average.
How healthy is Hammonds Plains?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Hammonds Plains?
Women in Hammonds Plains’ 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).