Photo: Linglingsan at en.wikipedia · Public domainFor health, Liverpool sits behind 90% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 44%, behind the 48% for Nova Scotia. Measured from where Liverpool’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 13 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Liverpool a grade of D, #70 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #2,509 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Liverpool
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Liverpool is well above the typical town’s; 16% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
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 ↓
Hospital care at a distance
For 20% of homes in Liverpool the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 5.3 km. Getting care ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
Regions scoring 3.9 on the deprivation index typically live 77.8 years; Liverpool’s region, at 80.0, does better. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Liverpool grades D 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: #70 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #2,509 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.
High blood pressure for 27% of adults in the region, diabetes for 13%
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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 2.2 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Liverpool’s, lies over the trend.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Liverpool’s region beats it: 80.0 years against the 77.8 the trend gives a score of 3.9. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 78.3.
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
For 21% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 47% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Nova Scotia’s 48%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The nearest hospital is 13 km from the average home in Liverpool
Straight-line distances from each part of Liverpool, weighted by who lives there.
From Liverpool that is further than the 9.2 km of the typical town in Nova Scotia, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. The centre of population is 5.3 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 13 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.
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
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
This is the one part of the block measured for Liverpool itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Among 40 towns its size, Liverpool is 35th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (10,745 to 11,205 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cabbagetown-South St.James Town ON A | 11,205 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 2 | Penetanguishene ON A− | 11,141 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 3 | Bendale South ON A | 10,885 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 33 | Lethbridge County AB C+ | 10,988 | 11 km | 52% |
| 34 | Thornbury ON C+ | 11,162 | 12 km | 48% |
| 35 | Liverpool NS D | 10,997 | 13 km | 44% |
| 36 | Lacombe County AB C | 11,072 | 15 km | 52% |
| 37 | Wendover ON C | 10,896 | 15 km | 49% |
| 40 | Yellowhead County AB D− | 10,966 | 27 km | 48% |
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
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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 Liverpool’s own.
Questions about health in Liverpool
How is Liverpool’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Liverpool has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Liverpool?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Liverpool from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 38 km from the average resident of Liverpool, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Liverpool?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.5 for women, 77.6 for men around Liverpool (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).