Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainVery good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Harrietsfield’s health region
People in the region live to 81.4 on average: 83.4 for women and 79.3 for men in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Harrietsfield’s is long: 11 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Harrietsfield is B, #26 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,851 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Harrietsfield
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Harrietsfield the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 12 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Harrietsfield 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: #26 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,851 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 Harrietsfield: 11 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Harrietsfield’s own, not the region’s.
Against 9.2 km for the typical town in Nova Scotia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Harrietsfield sits near the middle. 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Harrietsfield’s region shows under the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.6, the expected figure is 82.2 years, and Harrietsfield’s region falls below with 81.4. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do better (5 of 10), with a median of 81.7. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $81,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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%)
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
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
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Harrietsfield’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
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%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region tracks Nova Scotia, 48% very good or excellent to 48%; 24% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Harrietsfield is 33rd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,617 to 6,914 people, median 4.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre QC A | 6,627 | 0.8 km | 55% |
| 2 | Old Ottawa South ON A+ | 6,704 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 3 | Hillsdale SK B+ | 6,792 | 1.2 km | 49% |
| 31 | Industrial ON B− | 6,690 | 8.5 km | 53% |
| 32 | Rhineland MB B− | 6,819 | 11 km | 51% |
| 33 | Harrietsfield NS B | 6,786 | 11 km | 51% |
| 34 | Douglas NB C− | 6,840 | 16 km | 45% |
| 35 | Lucan ON B | 6,827 | 17 km | 52% |
| 40 | Thunder Bay, Unorganized ON D | 6,831 | 37 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Harrietsfield
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrietsfield | 11 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Hatchet Lake 9.5 km | 19 km | 51% | 81.4 | B− |
| South End 9.6 km | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Westmount 11 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Schmidtville 12 km | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Mount Royale 13 km | 5.0 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| North End 13 km | 0.7 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
One health region covers Harrietsfield and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Schmidtville is the closest to care, 0.6 km to Harrietsfield’s 11 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Harrietsfield shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
Questions about health in Harrietsfield
How is Harrietsfield’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Harrietsfield: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Harrietsfield from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Harrietsfield is 8.5 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Harrietsfield?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Harrietsfield?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.4 for women, 79.3 for men around Harrietsfield (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).