Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0The region around Inverness County, Subdivision A carries more chronic illness than the typical Canadian town: 21% to 17%
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 49%; Nova Scotia as a whole is at 48%. What sets Inverness County, Subdivision A apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 12 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Inverness County, Subdivision A is C−, #50 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #2,433 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Inverness County, Subdivision A
A region where lives run shorter
Inverness County, Subdivision A’s region sits 2.7 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.1 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Inverness County, Subdivision A is well above the typical town’s; 12% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to hospital
Distance is Inverness County, Subdivision A’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 14 km. Getting care ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
At 78.8 years, Inverness County, Subdivision A’s region outlives the 77.1 that regions scoring 4.0 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Inverness County, Subdivision A grades C− 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: #50 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #2,433 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.
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
This is the shortest-lived of the 4 regions in Nova Scotia, 2.6 years behind the first at 81.4.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Inverness County, Subdivision A’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.
30% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 11% 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 45%, self-reported obesity is above 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.7 years more here
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Inverness County, Subdivision A’s lies above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 4.0 on the index, the line expects 77.1 years; Inverness County, Subdivision A’s region reaches 78.8. It outlives 6 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 77.8 years.
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.
The nearest hospital is 12 km from the average home in Inverness County, Subdivision A
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Inverness County, Subdivision A’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Inverness County, Subdivision A travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in Nova Scotia is 9.2 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. 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.
Self-rated health much as in Nova Scotia: 48% to 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 looks better than in the province too: 51% rate it very good or excellent, against 48% in Nova Scotia, and 24% find most days quite stressful.
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: Inverness County, Subdivision A comes 29th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 5,297 to 5,481 people, median 5.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hillview AB B+ | 5,473 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | West Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 5,386 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 3 | Stonewall MB C | 5,443 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 27 | Headingley MB B− | 5,368 | 8.8 km | 51% |
| 28 | Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue QC A− | 5,393 | 9.2 km | 54% |
| 29 | Inverness County, Subdivision A NS C− | 5,389 | 12 km | 49% |
| 30 | Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce QC A− | 5,339 | 13 km | 59% |
| 31 | North Gower - Kars ON A | 5,439 | 15 km | 56% |
| 40 | Deer Lake NL D | 5,319 | 45 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Inverness County, Subdivision A’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Inverness County, Subdivision A
How is Inverness County, Subdivision A’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Inverness County, Subdivision A: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Inverness County, Subdivision A?
There is no figure for Inverness County, Subdivision A alone; its health region’s is 80.9 for women and 76.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Inverness County, Subdivision A from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 16 km from the average resident of Inverness County, Subdivision A, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is Inverness County, Subdivision A?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 21% of adults.
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).