Photo: The original uploader was Sprocket at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 2.5Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Lower Sackville’s health region
A baby born in the region can expect 81.4 years, 83.4 for a girl and 79.3 for a boy (2022/2024). Measured from where Lower Sackville’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 2.4 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Lower Sackville a grade of B+, #4 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,340 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Lower Sackville 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: #4 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,340 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
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Lower Sackville’s dot is marked, under the line.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 2.6 about 82.2 years of life. Lower Sackville’s region falls short of it, at 81.4. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 5 of the 10, around a median of 81.7 years. 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.
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.
The nearest hospital is 2.4 km from the average home in Lower Sackville
Straight-line distances from each part of Lower Sackville, weighted by who lives there.
From Lower Sackville that is nearer than the 9.2 km of the typical town in Nova Scotia, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Lower Sackville’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
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
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.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Lower Sackville comes 21st of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (19,706 to 20,651 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Édouard-Montpetit QC A | 20,601 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | North End NS B+ | 19,733 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Westmount QC A | 20,377 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 19 | Yonge-Doris ON A | 20,298 | 2.0 km | 50% |
| 20 | Cranston AB A+ | 20,055 | 2.1 km | 56% |
| 21 | Lower Sackville NS B+ | 20,171 | 2.4 km | 51% |
| 22 | Corner Brook NL C | 20,549 | 2.5 km | 47% |
| 23 | Fenside-Parkwoods ON A | 20,615 | 2.7 km | 50% |
| 40 | Quispamsis NB D | 20,240 | 17 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Lower Sackville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Sackville | 2.4 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Middle Sackville 3.8 km | 6.4 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Bedford 5.7 km | 4.9 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Fall River 6.9 km | 7.3 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Beaver Bank 7.3 km | 9.0 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Hammonds Plains 9.2 km | 10 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Clayton Park West 11 km | 6.2 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
Around Lower Sackville the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Hammonds Plains live further from a hospital, at 10 km against 2.4 km in Lower Sackville.
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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Lower Sackville shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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 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.
Questions about health in Lower Sackville
How is Lower Sackville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Lower Sackville’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Lower Sackville?
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.
How far is Lower Sackville from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Lower Sackville is 1.1 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Lower Sackville?
Women in Lower Sackville’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).