Photo: Citobun · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in North End’s health region
Life expectancy in the region is 81.4 years (83.4 for women, 79.3 for men, 2022/2024). What sets North End apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.7 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). North End grades B+ for health, #1 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,184 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in North End
Near a hospital
Measured from where people live, North End is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 0.4 km away. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 23 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.3 km off, North End is well served for prescriptions. 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.
North End 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: #1 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,184 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 North End: 0.7 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is North End’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 9.2 km for the typical town in Nova Scotia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, North End is on the near side. 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
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, North End’s, lies beneath the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and North End’s region, at 2.6, should live about 82.2 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 81.4. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 5 of them above it, a median of 81.7. Households here earn around $81,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.5% diabetes
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
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for North End’s own areas.
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%
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
Stress touches 24% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 48%, the province 48% (Nova Scotia).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, North End is 1st nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 19,305 to 20,122 people, median 2.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North End NS B+ | 19,733 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 2 | Central London ON A− | 19,363 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 3 | Père-Marquette QC A | 19,702 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 40 | Mont-Saint-Hilaire QC A− | 19,447 | 19 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around North End
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North End | 0.7 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Windsor Park 1.7 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Schmidtville 1.8 km | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Austinville 2.8 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Westmount 2.8 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Fairview 3.4 km | 3.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Manor Park 3.7 km | 1.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates North End from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Residents of Fairview live further from a hospital, at 3.8 km against 0.7 km in North End.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: North End shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in North End
How is North End’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and North End’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is North End from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in North End is 0.3 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is North End?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
What is the life expectancy in North End?
Statistics Canada publishes it for North End’s health region only: 83.4 years for women and 79.3 for men (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).