Photo: CP Hoffman from Washington, DC, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Schmidtville, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 83.4 and men to 79.3, 81.4 years taken together (2022/2024). What sets Schmidtville apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.6 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Schmidtville a grade of B+.
What stands out about health in Schmidtville
Near a hospital
Measured from where people live, Schmidtville is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 0.5 km away. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Schmidtville has 18 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.3 km away. 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.
Schmidtville 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.
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 0.6 km from the average home in Schmidtville
Straight-line distances from each part of Schmidtville, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 9.2 km for the typical town in Nova Scotia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Schmidtville is on the near side. 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Schmidtville’s region comes out below the trend.
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 2.6 would suggest 82.2 years, but Schmidtville’s region stops at 81.4. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 5 of them above it, a median of 81.7. 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.
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
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.
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
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Schmidtville’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.
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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Schmidtville comes 4th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (17,632 to 18,597 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown Yonge East ON A | 18,251 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | Kensington-Chinatown ON A | 18,597 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 3 | Desmarchais-Crawford QC A | 18,505 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 4 | Schmidtville NS B+ | 18,105 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 5 | Morningside ON A | 17,708 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 6 | Sylvan Lake AB C+ | 17,897 | 1.2 km | 52% |
| 40 | Lake Country BC B− | 17,637 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Schmidtville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schmidtville | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| North End 1.8 km | 0.7 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| South End 2.8 km | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Westmount 3.3 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Windsor Park 3.4 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Manor Park 3.7 km | 1.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Austinville 4.0 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
Every place around Schmidtville shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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 Schmidtville’s own.
Questions about health in Schmidtville
How is Schmidtville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Schmidtville’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Schmidtville from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 0.3 km from the average resident of Schmidtville, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is Schmidtville?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
What is the life expectancy in Schmidtville?
For the health region that includes Schmidtville, 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).