Photo: A Disappearing Act · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Mount Royale, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 81.4 years, 83.4 for a girl and 79.3 for a boy (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Mount Royale’s is long: 5.0 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Mount Royale grades B+ for health, #11 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,543 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Mount Royale
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of Mount Royale can reach 9.1 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.3 km off. 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.
Mount Royale 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: #11 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,543 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.
From Mount Royale, a hospital is 5.0 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Mount Royale, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Mount Royale are closer 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.
The region lives 0.8 years less than its deprivation predicts
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Mount Royale’s region is below the line.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Mount Royale 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. 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%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
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.
Life expectancy across the 4 health regions in Nova Scotia
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
No region of the 4 in Nova Scotia lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 78.8, a gap of 2.6 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Mount Royale’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
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%)
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
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, Mount Royale is 26th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (9,167 to 9,491 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danforth ON A | 9,364 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 2 | Downtown Commercial Core AB A+ | 9,286 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 3 | Manor Park ON A+ | 9,491 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 24 | Burnaby Mountain BC A | 9,248 | 4.7 km | 48% |
| 25 | Fletchers Meadow South ON A− | 9,214 | 4.9 km | 49% |
| 26 | Mount Royale NS B+ | 9,340 | 5.0 km | 51% |
| 27 | Sulphur Springs ON B | 9,404 | 5.1 km | 53% |
| 28 | Three Rivers PE B | 9,322 | 5.6 km | 51% |
| 40 | Saint-Apollinaire QC B+ | 9,218 | 22 km | 59% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Mount Royale
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Royale | 5.0 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Fairview 1.5 km | 3.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Clayton Park West 2.9 km | 6.2 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Westmount 3.0 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Windsor Park 3.4 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| North End 4.7 km | 0.7 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| South End 5.3 km | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
Mount Royale and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of North End live nearer a hospital, at 0.7 km against 5.0 km in Mount Royale.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Mount Royale shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- 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 Mount Royale
How is Mount Royale’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Mount Royale has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Mount Royale?
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%.
How far is Mount Royale from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Mount Royale is 1.3 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Mount Royale?
Women in Mount Royale’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).