Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain51% of adults around Meaghers Grant rate their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.4, with women at 83.4 and men at 79.3. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Meaghers Grant’s is long: 15 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Meaghers Grant grades B for health, #29 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,933 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Meaghers Grant
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Meaghers Grant’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 13 km. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 19 km from the average home in Meaghers Grant, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.3 out of 5, Meaghers Grant sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Meaghers Grant 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: #29 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,933 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 15 km from the average home in Meaghers Grant
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Meaghers Grant’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Meaghers Grant travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Nova Scotia is 9.2 km from a hospital, 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
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 Meaghers Grant’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.
0.8 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Meaghers Grant’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
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 Meaghers Grant’s region falls below with 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. Judged by income, around $81,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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
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.
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
The region’s 48% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Nova Scotia’s 48%, with 24% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Meaghers Grant comes 33rd of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,374 to 3,497 people, median 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lynnwood AB B+ | 3,452 | 0.4 km | 51% |
| 2 | Virginia Park AB B+ | 3,431 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Havre-Saint-Pierre QC B+ | 3,389 | 1.2 km | 61% |
| 31 | Cumberland County, Subdivision A NS D | 3,401 | 13 km | 42% |
| 32 | Saint-Côme--Linière QC A− | 3,435 | 14 km | 59% |
| 33 | Meaghers Grant NS B | 3,430 | 15 km | 51% |
| 34 | Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier QC A+ | 3,400 | 17 km | 62% |
| 35 | Richmond County, Subdivision C NS D | 3,444 | 19 km | 49% |
| 40 | Lewisporte NL D | 3,405 | 45 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Meaghers Grant
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meaghers Grant | 15 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Musquodoboit Harbour 17 km | 5.9 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
The neighbours all sit in Meaghers Grant’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Musquodoboit Harbour live nearer a hospital, at 5.9 km against 15 km in Meaghers Grant.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Meaghers Grant’s own.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- 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.
Questions about health in Meaghers Grant
How far is Meaghers Grant from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 19 km from the average resident of Meaghers Grant, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How is Meaghers Grant’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Meaghers Grant has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Meaghers Grant?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Meaghers Grant?
For the health region that includes Meaghers Grant, 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).