Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainKings County, Subdivision B’s health region counts 19% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 12%
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 44% very good or excellent, against 48% in Nova Scotia. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Kings County, Subdivision B’s is long: 5.8 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Kings County, Subdivision B a grade of C−, #53 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #2,442 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Kings County, Subdivision B
Less upbeat about their health
Even once age is allowed for, 7.4 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (42% as answered). Health survey ↓
More chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 27% report high blood pressure and 13% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Kings County, Subdivision B’s region sits 1.5 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.7 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Kings County, Subdivision B’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.9 predicts: 80.0 years against 77.8. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Kings County, Subdivision B 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: #53 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #2,442 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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 2.2 years ahead of the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Kings County, Subdivision B’s dot is marked, above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.9 on the index, the line expects 77.8 years; Kings County, Subdivision B’s region reaches 80.0. It tops the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 78.3 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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Nova Scotia: 42% 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 is close to the province’s: 47% rate it very good or excellent, against 48% in Nova Scotia, and 21% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
27% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 13% 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, 40%, sits within a few points of 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 4 regions in Nova Scotia
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
Ranked 2nd of 4 in Nova Scotia: the regions span 78.8 to 81.4 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Kings County, Subdivision B’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.
The nearest hospital is 5.8 km from the average home in Kings County, Subdivision B
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Kings County, Subdivision B’s own, not the region’s.
Kings County, Subdivision B is closer in than the provincial norm of 9.2 km in Nova Scotia, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
Kings County, Subdivision B is 28th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 12,384 to 12,924 people, median 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yonge-Bay Corridor ON A | 12,888 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | DT Hospital ON A− | 12,384 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 3 | Regent Park ON A | 12,797 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 26 | Rutherford AB B | 12,808 | 5.0 km | 51% |
| 27 | Spring Valley ON A− | 12,564 | 5.7 km | 49% |
| 28 | Kings County, Subdivision B NS C− | 12,661 | 5.8 km | 44% |
| 29 | New Springbrook ON B+ | 12,804 | 6.9 km | 49% |
| 30 | Winchester ON C+ | 12,706 | 7.0 km | 49% |
| 40 | Lac Ste. Anne County AB D− | 12,639 | 25 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Kings County, Subdivision B
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kings County, Subdivision B | 5.8 km | 44% | 80.0 | C− |
| Kentville 7.1 km | 1.7 km | 44% | 80.0 | C− |
| Wolfville 8.9 km | 1.2 km | 44% | 80.0 | C− |
| Kings County, Subdivision C 9.0 km | 5.6 km | 44% | 80.0 | C− |
| Kings County, Subdivision D 12 km | 7.1 km | 44% | 80.0 | C− |
The neighbours all sit in Kings County, Subdivision B’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Wolfville live nearer a hospital, at 1.2 km against 5.8 km in Kings County, Subdivision B.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Kings County, Subdivision B alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Kings County, Subdivision B
How healthy is Kings County, Subdivision B?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Kings County, Subdivision B?
Women in Kings County, Subdivision B’s region live to 82.5 on average and men to 77.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Kings County, Subdivision B’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Kings County, Subdivision B has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Kings County, Subdivision B from a hospital?
For everyday care, Kings County, Subdivision B’s residents are 5.9 km from a pharmacy on average.
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).