Photo: Eric.stewart · CC BY-SA 4.0Kings County, Subdivision D’s health region counts 19% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 12%
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 44%, behind the 48% for Nova Scotia. For Kings County, Subdivision D itself the measure is access, and it lags: 7.1 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Kings County, Subdivision D is C−, #55 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #2,449 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Kings County, Subdivision D
Self-rated health runs low
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
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 27% of adults, diabetes for 13%. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Kings County, Subdivision D’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 ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
At 80.0 years, Kings County, Subdivision D’s region outlives the 77.8 that regions scoring 3.9 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.
Kings County, Subdivision D 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: #55 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #2,449 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 2.2 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Kings County, Subdivision D’s dot is marked, above the line.
At 3.9 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 77.8 years, and the region Kings County, Subdivision D belongs to reaches 80.0. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, none lives longer; the middle of the group is 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.
42% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Nova Scotia (47%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region tracks Nova Scotia, 47% very good or excellent to 48%; 21% describe most days as quite a bit 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
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
At 40%, self-reported obesity is near 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
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
Among the 4 regions in Nova Scotia, from 78.8 to 81.4 years, this one is 2nd.
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 D’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.
From Kings County, Subdivision D, a hospital is 7.1 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Kings County, Subdivision D’s own, not the region’s.
Kings County, Subdivision D is near the provincial norm, 9.2 km for the typical town in Nova Scotia, with the typical Canadian town at 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Kings County, Subdivision D is 29th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,422 to 6,613 people, median 4.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petrolia ON B− | 6,422 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 2 | Humboldt SK C− | 6,551 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 3 | Stipeley ON B | 6,572 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 27 | Royalwood MB B | 6,439 | 6.1 km | 52% |
| 28 | Cumberland AB B | 6,493 | 6.2 km | 51% |
| 29 | Kings County, Subdivision D NS C− | 6,517 | 7.1 km | 44% |
| 30 | Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel QC A− | 6,613 | 7.8 km | 61% |
| 31 | Pointe-Calumet QC A | 6,427 | 7.8 km | 60% |
| 40 | Mont-Joli QC B+ | 6,492 | 29 km | 60% |
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 D
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kings County, Subdivision D | 7.1 km | 44% | 80.0 | C− |
| Wolfville 2.7 km | 1.2 km | 44% | 80.0 | C− |
| Kings County, Subdivision B 12 km | 5.8 km | 44% | 80.0 | C− |
| Kings County, Subdivision C 13 km | 5.6 km | 44% | 80.0 | C− |
| Kentville 13 km | 1.7 km | 44% | 80.0 | C− |
| Windsor 18 km | 7.7 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
Windsor falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 81.4 against 80.0 here. Wolfville is the closest to care, 1.2 km to Kings County, Subdivision D’s 7.1 km.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Kings County, Subdivision D itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Kings County, Subdivision D
How healthy is Kings County, Subdivision D?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Kings County, Subdivision D?
For the health region that includes Kings County, Subdivision D, women can expect 82.5 years and men 77.6 (2022/2024).
How is Kings County, Subdivision D’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Kings County, Subdivision D’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Kings County, Subdivision D from a hospital?
Residents of Kings County, Subdivision D have a pharmacy 4.7 km away on average, in a straight line.
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).